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Parallel Circuit Simulation on Workstation Clusters

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Circuit simulation programs are standard tools for computer aided design of electric circuits. At Siemens AG a major application is the verification of dynamic memories and digital circuits with more than 10000 transistors.

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Wever, U., Zheng, Q. (1996). Parallel Circuit Simulation on Workstation Clusters. In: Neunzert, H. (eds) Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 94. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-82967-2_33

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