SC²S Colloquium - Dec 20, 2018

Date:	Dec 20, 2018
Room:	00.08.053
Time:	15:00 - 15:30

Isslam Abdelhadi: Development of a Speed-Optimized Frequency Domain Solver for Passive Circuits

This is an external Master's thesis submission talk advised by Thomas Huckle.

Passive components, in particular inductors and transformers, are essential in the design and development of Integrated Circuits (ICs) for high-frequency applications. The design and development of modern ICs relies on accurate and efficient simulation programs which characterize the electrical performance of a circuit. SPICE was the first simulator introduced for simulating a circuit in different scenarios. This helps the engineers in analyzing the behavior of the circuit under different conditions, which makes its development cheap and fast. In this thesis, an interactive SPICE-like Passive Circuit (PC) simulation program (PassSim) is developed and integrated in Infineon's analysis tool. PassSim aims to get a fast characterization of inductors and transformers at different layouts and frequencies. The user inputs a netlist file to be parsed. After the parsing step, the user inputs the requested output type and the circuit layout interactively. Based on the output type, PassSim applies the corresponding numerical methods to construct and solve the resulting linear system (of size 10^3) at a user specified frequency(ies). Furthermore, it performs layout optimization of an input inductor in order to improve its performance.

Keywords: Computational electrodynamics, Frequency Domain Solver