Power network analysis using an adaptive algebraic multigrid approach

摘要

In this paper, we introduce an efficient analysis method for the power network of general topology. The new approach is based on algebraic multigrid (AMG) method that can avoid the slow convergence of basic iterative methods. An innovative adaptive coarsening and error-smoothing scheme is employed to further speed up the performance, taking advantage of the spatial variation of power supply noise. Experimental results show that our method is more than 100 times faster than SPICE3.