Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Integrated Circuits: Proceedings of a Conference held at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, November 25-December 1, 2001

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Hydrodynamical Model for GaAs Semiconductors Based on the Maximum Entropy Principle with Application to Electronic Devices....Pages 3-15
Modeling and Simulation of Electro-Quasistatic Fields....Pages 17-31
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit System Design for UMTS Terminal Receivers....Pages 33-47
Finite-element Discretizations of Semiconductor Energy-transport Equations....Pages 49-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
An Embedding Approach for the Simulation of Electronic Circuits with Widely Seperated Time Scales....Pages 67-81
Actual Problems of Circuit Simulation in Industry....Pages 83-99
Periodic Steady State Computation with the Poincaré-map Method....Pages 101-119
Periodic AC and Periodic Noise in RF Simulation for Electronic Circuit Design....Pages 121-134
Differential Algebraic Systems with Properly Stated Leading Term and MNA Equations....Pages 135-151
A Parallel Finite Difference Method for Multirate Partial Differential Algebraic Equations....Pages 153-166
Feasibility Regions and their Significance to the Hierarchical Optimization of Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems....Pages 167-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Modeling and Discretization of a Thermal-Electric Test Circuit....Pages 187-201
A Refined PDAE Network Model for a CMOS Ring Oscillator....Pages 203-218
Parasitics Reduction for Analog Circuit Simulation....Pages 219-227
Modeling Circuit Systems Coupled with Distributed Semiconductor Equations....Pages 229-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Transient Noise Simulation: Modeling and Simulation of 1/ f -Noise....Pages 251-267
Noise Analysis of Nonlinear Electrical Circuits and Devices....Pages 269-282
On Parametric Test Design for Analog Integrated Circuits considering Error in Measurement and Stimulus....Pages 283-301
Stochastic DAEs in Circuit Simulation....Pages 303-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
An Efficient Way to Avoid the Order Reduction of Linearly Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods for Nonlinear IBVP’s....Pages 321-332
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Solution of Linear Systems with Sparse Matrices....Pages 333-347
The Performances of the Code TOM on the Holt Problem....Pages 349-360
Back Matter....Pages 361-361