1. Sparse Transformations and Preconditioners for 3-D Capacitance Extraction.
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Shu Yan, Sarin, Vivek, and Weiping Shi
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ALGORITHMS ,DIELECTRICS ,NUMERICAL analysis ,BOUNDARY element methods ,ELECTRICAL engineering materials ,EXCITON theory ,ELECTRIC insulators & insulation - Abstract
Three-dimensional (3-D) capacitance-extraction algorithms are important due to their high accuracy. However, the current 3-D algorithms are slow and thus their application is limited. In this paper, we present a novel method to significantly speed up capacitance-extraction algorithms based on boundary element methods (BEMs), under uniform and multiple dielectrics. The n × n coefficient matrix in the BEM is dense, even when approximated with the fast multipole method or hierarchical-refinement method, where n is the number of panels needed to discretize the conductor surfaces and dielectric interfaces. As a result, effective preconditioners are hard to obtain and iterative solvers converge slowly. In this paper, we introduce a linear transformation to convert the n × n dense coefficient matrix into a sparse matrix with O(n) nonzero entries, and then use incomplete factorization to produce a very effective preconditioner. For the k × k bus-crossing benchmark, our method requires at most four iterations, whereas previous best methods such as FastCap and HiCap require 10-20 iterations. As a result, our algorithm is up to 70 times faster than FastCap and up to 2 times faster than HiCap on these benchmarks. Additional experiments illustrate that our method consistently outperforms previous best methods by a large magnitude on complex industrial problems with multiple dielectrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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