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A novel substrate coupling simulation tool named SubCALM is presented. It is well suited to floorplanning of large mixed-signal designs since it exploits the boundary element method and contains a Poisson solver based on a hierarchical O(n) conjugate gradient algorithm. Sophisticated preconditioners are applied, which further increase the computation speed by a factor of about 10. The approach is verified by experimental results in a 0.25 μm BiCMOS technology.
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Brandtner, T., Weigel, R. (2004). Hierarchical Simulation of Substrate Coupling in BiCMOS Structures Using the Boundary Element Method. In: Schilders, W.H.A., ter Maten, E.J.W., Houben, S.H.M.J. (eds) Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering. Mathematics in Industry, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55872-6_13
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