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MORCIC: Model Order Reduction Techniques for Electromagnetic Models of Integrated Circuits

Numerical Analysis 2024-01-22 v1 Hardware Architecture Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Numerical Analysis

Abstract

Model order reduction (MOR) is crucial for the design process of integrated circuits. Specifically, the vast amount of passive RLCk elements in electromagnetic models extracted from physical layouts exacerbates the extraction time, the storage requirements, and, most critically, the post-layout simulation time of the analyzed circuits. The MORCIC project aims to overcome this problem by proposing new MOR techniques that perform better than commercial tools. Experimental evaluation on several analog and mixed-signal circuits with millions of elements indicates that the proposed methods lead to x5.5 smaller ROMs while maintaining similar accuracy compared to golden ROMs provided by ANSYS RaptorX.

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@article{arxiv.2401.10236,
  title  = {MORCIC: Model Order Reduction Techniques for Electromagnetic Models of Integrated Circuits},
  author = {Dimitrios Garyfallou and Athanasios Stefanou and Christos Giamouzis and Moschos Antoniadis and Georgios Chararas and Konstantinos Chatzis and Dimitris Samaras and Rafaela Themeli and Anastasios Michailidis and Vasiliki Gogolou and Nikos Zachos and Nestor Evmorfopoulos and Thomas Noulis and Vasilis F. Pavlidis and Alkiviadis Hatzopoulos and Elpida Chatzineofytou and Yiannis Moisiadis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.10236},
  year   = {2024}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2311.08478

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