Workshop on Numerical Aspects of Circuit and Device Modeling
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Program

Wednesday, April 3rd
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast Buffet and Registration
9:00-10:00 am Session I: Introduction
Tamara Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories (Chair)
  Scott Hutchinson, Sandia National Laboratories
Opening Remarks
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  Boris Troyanovsky, Agilent Technologies
Challenges in Large-Scale Frequency Domain Circuit Simulation
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10:00-10:30 am Refreshment Break
10:30-11:30 am Session I (Continuation)
Joel Phillips, Cadence Berkeley Labs
Industrial Challenges in Circuit Simulation: 2002-2010
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Rob Hoekstra, Sandia National Laboratories
Xyce: Parallel Electronic Simulator
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11:30-12:30 pm Lunch Buffet
12:30-2:00 pm Panel Discussion Session on How To Make Numerical Codes More Robust and Easier to Use
Led by Rob Hoekstra, Dana Knoll, and Linda Petzold
2:00-2:30 pm Refreshment Break
2:30-4:00 pm Session II: Linear Algebra
Jane Cullum, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Roland Freund, Bell Laboratories
How to Generate Passive Reduced-Order Models
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  Sharad Kapur, Agere Systems
Large Scale Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Simulation using Integral Equations
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  Tim Davis, University of Florida
Sparse Matrix Algorithms
4:00-4:15 pm Stretch Break
4:15-5:15 pm Session II (Continuation)
  Achim Basermann, NEC Europe
Parallel Sparse Linear Solvers for Circuit Simulation
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  Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories
Enhanced Incomplete Factorizations Algorithms for Solving Circuit Modeling Problems
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5:15 pm Adjourn for the day (dinner on your own)
Thursday, April 4th  
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast Buffet
9:00-11:00 am Session III: PDEs
Dana Knoll, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Chair)
Karti Mayaram, Oregon State University
Mixed-level Circuit and Device Simulation
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John Shadid, Sandia National Laboratories
Nonlinear and Linear Iterative Solvers for FE Simulations of Transport / Reaction Systems
Dan Yergeau, Stanford University
Solving Device PDE's with the PROPHET Simulator
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Conor Rafferty, Agere Systems
Advanced Device Simulation at Agere Systems
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11:00-1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:30-3:30 pm Session IV: Nonlinear Equations
Homer Walker, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Chair)
Tammy Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories
Comparison of Nonlinear Equation Solution Methods for Circuit Simulation (Joint work with Roger Pawlowski, Sandia National Labs)
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Layne Watson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Probability-one Homotopy Methods for Nonsmooth Systems of Equation
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Carol Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Nonlinear Solution and Sensitivity Methods for Diffusion Systems
David Long, Agere Systems
Verifying Simulation Models with Optimization
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3:30-4:00 pm Refreshment Break
4:00-5:30 pm Panel Discussion on The Utility of Iterative Linear Solvers and Other Numerical Methods for Circuit and Device Modeling
Led by Achim Basserman, Roland Freund, Mike Heroux, and Layne Watson
6:30-7:30 pm Banquet
7:30-8:15 pm After Dinner Talk
Bob Melville, Agere (Chair)
Colin McAndrew, Motorola
Models are Always Wrong, Right? What's the Difference Between an $85 Model and a $2,000,000 Model
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8:15 pm  Adjourn for the day 
Friday, April 5th  
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast Buffet
9:00-11-00 am Session V: ODEs
Steve Lee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Chair)
Linda Petzold, UC Santa Barbara
Sensitivity Analysis for Differential-Algebraic Equations
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Hans Georg Brachtendorf, Fraunhofer Institute IIS
An Inverse Method of Characteristics for Analyzing Multirate Circuits and Systems
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10:00-10:30 am Refreshment Break And Check-Out Of Hotel
10:30-11:30 am Session V (Continuation)
Almudena Suarez, University of Cantabria
Techniques for the Global Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Microwave Circuits. Application to Novel Circuit Design.
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Jaijeet Roychowdhury, University of Minnesota
Difference-frequency Time Scales for Multitime PDEs
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11:30-12:30 pm Panel Discussion on The Next Generation of Transistor-Level Circuit Simulation
Led by Bob Melville, Joel Phillips, and Boris Troyanovsky
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch Buffet
1:30-2:30 pm Session VI: Closing Talks
Masha Sosonkina, Univ. Minnesota Duluth (Chair)
Bob Melville, Agere Systems
Design and Application of a Two-dimensional Continuation Solver (Joint work with Steve Mackey, Western Michigan University)
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Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories
Parallel Circuit Simulation: Challenges and Opportunities
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2:30 pm Wrap-Up and Adjourn
Bob Melville, Agere Systems

Instructions for speakers

Each speaker will be alloted 25 minutes. All talks should be accessible to both circuit and design modelers as well as numerical analysts. An overhead projector will be provided for viewgraph talks, and a computer and computer projector will be provided for electronic talks.

We request that each speaker submit an electronic copy of his or her talk to Tamara Kolda <tgkolda@sandia.gov> by no later than April 13, 2002. The talks will be posted on this web page.

 

 
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