Copies of each talk will be posted as they become available.
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 Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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| Boris Troyanovsky, Agilent Technologies Challenges in Large-Scale Frequency Domain Circuit Simulation Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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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 Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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| Rob Hoekstra, Sandia National Laboratories Xyce: Parallel Electronic Simulator Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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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 Download: PDF or Postscript |
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| Sharad Kapur, Agere Systems Large Scale Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Simulation using Integral Equations Download: PDF or PowerPoint plus AVI movie |
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| Tim Davis, University of Florida Sparse Matrix Algorithms |
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| 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 Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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| Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories Enhanced Incomplete Factorizations Algorithms for Solving Circuit Modeling Problems Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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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 Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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| John Shadid, Sandia National Laboratories Nonlinear and Linear Iterative Solvers for FE Simulations of Transport / Reaction Systems |
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| Dan Yergeau, Stanford University Solving Device PDE's with the PROPHET Simulator Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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| Conor Rafferty, Agere Systems Advanced Device Simulation at Agere Systems Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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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) Download: PDF |
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| Layne Watson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Probability-one Homotopy Methods for Nonsmooth Systems of Equation Download: PDF or Postscript |
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| Carol Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory Nonlinear Solution and Sensitivity Methods for Diffusion Systems |
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| David Long, Agere Systems Verifying Simulation Models with Optimization Download: PDF |
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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 Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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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 Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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| Hans Georg Brachtendorf, Fraunhofer Institute IIS An Inverse Method of Characteristics for Analyzing Multirate Circuits and Systems Download: PDF |
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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. Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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| Jaijeet Roychowdhury, University of Minnesota Difference-frequency Time Scales for Multitime PDEs Download: PDF |
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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) Download: Postscript |
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| Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories Parallel Circuit Simulation: Challenges and Opportunities Download: PDF or PowerPoint |
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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.
