Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor – Nanotechnology related integrated circuit design
Patent
1997-04-28
2000-11-21
Lintz, Paul R.
Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor
Nanotechnology related integrated circuit design
703 13, 703 14, 703 22, G06F 1750
Patent
active
061516988
ABSTRACT:
An efficient method for determining the periodic steady state response of a circuit driven by a periodic signal, the method including the steps of 1) using a shooting method to form a non-linear system of equations for initial conditions of the circuit that directly result in the periodic steady state response; 2) solving the non-linear system via a Newton iterative method, where each iteration of the Newton method involves solution of a respective linear system of equations; and 3) for each iteration of the Newton method, solving the respective linear system of equations associated with the iteration of the Newton method via an iterative technique. The iterative technique may be a matrix-implicit application of a Krylov subspace technique, resulting in a computational cost that grows approximately in a linear fashion with the number of nodes in the circuit.
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Kundert Kenneth S.
Telichevesky Ricardo
White Jacob K.
Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Lintz Paul R.
Siek Vuthe
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