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

In November 2001 the Mathematical Research Center at Oberwolfach, Germany, hosted the third Conference on Mathematical Models and Numerical Simulation in Electronic Industry. It brought together researchers in mathematics, electrical engineering and scientists working in industry. The contributions to this volume try to bridge the gap between basic and applied mathematics, research in electrical engineering and the needs of industry. 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 Contains the proceeding of the third Conference on Mathematical Models and Numerical Simulation in Electronic Industry, held in Germany, in 2001. This volume aims to bridge the gap between basic and applied mathematics, research in electrical engineering and the needs of industry.