Effects of artificial colors on hyperkinetic children: a double-blind challenge study [proceedings].

Abstract

Analysis of effects due to parasitics is of vital importance during the design\nof large-scale integrated circuits, since it gives insight into how circuit performance\nis affected by undesired parasitic effects. Due to the increasing amount of\ninterconnect and metal layers, parasitic extraction and simulation may become very\ntime consuming or even unfeasible. Developments are presented, for reducing systems\ndescribing R and RC netlists resulting from parasitic extraction. The methods\nexploit tools from graph theory to improve sparsity preservation especially for circuits\nwith multi-terminals. Circuit synthesis is applied after model reduction, and\nthe resulting reduced netlists are tested with industrial circuit simulators. With the\nnovel RC reduction method SparseMA, experiments show reduction of 95% in the\nnumber of elements and 68x speed-up in simulation time.