COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN CIRCUIT SIMULATION INCUDES THEORY, NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES, AND RECIPES ON HOW TO BUILD A SIMULATOR FOR THE ANALYSIS OF VERY LARGE CIRCUITS WITH COMPLEX DEVICE AND COMPONENT MODELS This book provides theoretical basis of circuit simulation with special emphasis on the simulation of very large circuits and systems. The results are presented in algorithmic form and recipes that can be easily translated into computer code. The book: -Explains the theoretical basis of circuit formulation and describes the Extended Nodal Analysis, which is a generalization of the traditional nodal and modified nodal analysis that allows the inclusion of complex device models. -Describes how to build the circuit equations from the input netlist using the stamp approach. -Presents the solution of large linear equations using sparse matrix techniques, partitioning, iterative and projection methods. -Covers DC solution or the solution of nonlinear algebraic equations, including variations of Newton method and piecewise-linear techniques. -Covers transient analysis or solution of algebraic-differential equations, including integration formulas, stability, error estimation and step-size control. -Explains reduced-order modeling for the simulation of very large dynamic circuits and systems. -Includes sensitivity analysis.
About the Author: Ibrahim N. Hajj received the B.E. degree (with distinction) from the American University of Beirut (AUB), the M.S. degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1970-1978 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He spent 1973-1975 teaching at the Lebanese University in Beirut and worked as a consultant. He was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Research Professor int the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and in the Beckman Institute, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 1978-2000. He served as the Dean of Engineering and Architecture at AUB from 2000 to 2010, and Professor of ECE, AUB, 2010-2014. He is currently Professor Emeritus at UIUC. His research interests include computer-aided design of VLSI circuits, design for reliability and low-power, and testing. He has published over 200 journal and conference papers and book chapters, and coauthored two books and one single-author book (this book). He and his students have received a number of best paper awards; he has given invited talks at international conferences, universities and companies, and acted as consultant to industry. He received the 1999 Golden Jubilee Medal of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).