Scalable parallel matrix solver for steady state analysis of large nonlinear circuits

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1401-1404

  Soveiko, Nick ^a   Nakhla, Michel ^a   Achar, Ramachandra ^a   Gad, Emad ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed memory systems; Frequency domain analysis; Harmonic analysis; Jacobian matrices; Nonlinear circuits; Shared memory systems

Indexed keywords

FOURIER SERIES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; MICROWAVES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); NONLINEAR ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE MATRIXES; MATRIX SOLVERS; NONLINEAR CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR STEADY STATES; SHARED MEMORY SYSTEMS; STEADY STATES;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 57349133718     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2008.4633040     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. Y. Saad and M. H. Schultz, "GMRES: a generalized minimal residual algorithm for solving nonsymmetric linear systems," SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput., vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 856-869, 1986.
2. R. Telichevesky, K. Kundert, and J. White, "Efficient steady-state analysis based on matrix-free Krylov subspace method," in Proc. 1995 IEEE DAC, June 1995, pp. 480-484.
3. P. Feldmann, B. Melville, and D. Long, "Efficient frequency domain analysis of large nonlinear analog circuits," in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf., 1996, pp. 461-464.
4. D. Long, R. Melville, K. Ashby, and B. Horton, "Full-chip harmonic balance," in Proc. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf., 1997, pp. 379-382.
5. V. Karanko and M. Honkala, "A parallel harmonic balance simulator for shared memory multicomputers," in Proc. of 34th European Microwave Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Oct. 2004, pp. 849-851.
6. K. S. Kundert, J. K. White, and A. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Steady-state methods for simulating analog and microwave circuits. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.
7. P. J. C. Rodrigues, Computer-Aided Analysis of Nonlinear Microwave Circuits. Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1998.
8. Y. Saad, Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems, http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~saad/books.html, last accessed December 4, 2007.
9. K. Chen, Matrix Preconditioning Techniques and Applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
10. MPI-2: Extensions to the Message-Passing Interface. http://www.mpi.-forum.org/docs/mpi2-report.pdf: Message Passing Interface Forum, last accessed December 4, 2007.
11. J. Kepner, "Parallel programming with MatlabMPI," in Proc. of High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC 2001) workshop, Lexington, MA, Sept. 2001.
12. D. Robbins, "Advanced filesystem implementor's guide, part 3," IBM developerWorks, September 1, 2001, last accessed December 7, 2007. [Online]. Available: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/1-fs3.html