Xyce: An Open Source SPICE Engine

By Eric Keiter

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

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Abstract

This presentation is an overview of Xyce, an open source, SPICE-compatible, high-performance analog circuit simulator, capable of solving extremely large circuit problems by supporting large-scale parallel computing platforms (https://xyce.sandia.gov). It also supports serial execution on all common desktop platforms, and small-scale parallel runs on Unix-like systems. In addition to analog electronic simulation, Xyce has also been used to investigate more general network systems, such as neural networks and power grids.

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  • Eric Keiter (2014), "Xyce: An Open Source SPICE Engine," https://nanohub.org/resources/20605.

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Purdue University

Xyce: An Open Source SPICE Engine
  • Xyce: an open source SPICE engine 1. Xyce: an open source SPICE eng… 0
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  • Outline 2. Outline 41.47480814147481
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  • Parallel Circuit Simulator 3. Parallel Circuit Simulator 116.58324991658326
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  • Project Motivation: Why Xyce? 4. Project Motivation: Why Xyce? 230.33033033033033
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  • Why Open Source? 5. Why Open Source? 340.674007340674
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  • SNL has six core technical capabilities 6. SNL has six core technical cap… 436.60326993660328
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  • Hybrid-Hybrid solver result: 19x Speedup for Challenging IC 7. Hybrid-Hybrid solver result: 1… 485.18518518518522
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  • CIS 8. CIS 606.03937270603944
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  • Transforming Design Capabilities 9. Transforming Design Capabiliti… 631.26459793126458
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  • Xyce Requirements 10. Xyce Requirements 716.44978311644979
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  • Why not use SPICE? 11. Why not use SPICE? 800.96763430096769
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  • excerpt from dioload.c (SPICE3) 12. excerpt from dioload.c (SPICE3… 843.47681014347688
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  • Why Modularity is Necessary 13. Why Modularity is Necessary 902.33566900233575
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  • Modular Organization: The Big Picture 14. Modular Organization: The Big … 927.32732732732734
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  • Analysis Algorithms: Structure 15. Analysis Algorithms: Structure 987.95462128795464
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  • Xyce device hierarchy 16. Xyce device hierarchy 1035.7691024357691
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  • Xyce Analysis classes 17. Xyce Analysis classes 1108.1414748081415
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  • Harmonic Balance 18. Harmonic Balance 1162.1955288621955
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  • MPDE Analysis 19. MPDE Analysis 1270.8041374708041
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  • DCOP Non-linear solution techniques 20. DCOP Non-linear solution techn… 1366.966966966967
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  • Model Order Reduction(MOR) 21. Model Order Reduction(MOR) 1497.2972972972973
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  • Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) 22. Uncertainty Quantification (UQ… 1583.3166499833167
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  • ADMS-Xyce 23. ADMS-Xyce 1681.5815815815818
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  • ADMS-Xyce 24. ADMS-Xyce 1756.5565565565566
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  • ADMS-Xyce 25. ADMS-Xyce 1798.6986986986988
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  • ADMS Challenges 26. ADMS Challenges 1859.6262929596264
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  • ADMS Challenges 27. ADMS Challenges 2205.9726393059727
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  • Multi-physics support in Xyce through ModSpec 28. Multi-physics support in Xyce … 2375.5755755755758
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  • Model Development: Verilog-A β†’ ModSpec β†’ Xyce 29. Model Development: Verilog-A β… 2423.4234234234236
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  • Xyce Summary 30. Xyce Summary 2449.0824157490824
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  • Acknowledgements 31. Acknowledgements 2555.422088755422
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  • Thanks! 32. Thanks! 2559.3259926593259
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