WavePipe: Parallel transient simulation of analog and digital circuits on multi-core shared-memory machines

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 238-243

  Dong, Wei ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Ye, Xiaoji ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi core; Parallel computing; Transient simulation

Indexed keywords

MULTI CORES; MULTI-CORE; PARALLEL COMPUTING; TRANSIENT SIMULATION; TRANSIENT SIMULATIONS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MACHINE DESIGN; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOLUTIONS;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 51549098657     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAC.2008.4555816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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