ACES: a transient simulation strategy for integrated circuits

30 December 2002

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. ct 20, 357-360
https://doi.org/10.1109/iccd.1993.393353

Abstract

Adaptively Controlled Explicit Simulation (ACES) is a transient simulation methodology for integrated circuits and systems. An adaptively controlled explicit integration approximation is used which overcomes the stability problems encountered in earlier explicit techniques. Piecewise linear models are used for nonlinear devices, which allows efficient simulation of MOS, bipolar and BiMOS circuits. With the combination of generality, exploitation of circuit latency and ability to vary accuracy effectively, ACES provides an efficient environment for transient simulation of integrated circuits and systems.<>

Keywords

This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:

Piecewise approximate circuit simulation
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ,2003
ADAPTS
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ,1991
Timing Analysis and Performance Improvement of MOS VLSI Designs
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 1987
CINNAMON: Coupled Integration and Nodal Analysis of MOS Networks
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ,1986
Quasi-Static Control of Explicit Algorithms for Transient Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 1984
Crystal: A Timing Analyzer for nMOS VLSI Circuits
Published by Springer Nature ,1983
The Waveform Relaxation Method for Time-Domain Analysis of Large Scale Integrated Circuits
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 1982
MOTIS-An MOS timing simulator
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 1975
Algorithms for ASTAP--A network-analysis program
IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory, 1973
The state-variable approach to network analysis
Proceedings of the IEEE, 1965