TY - GEN
T1 - Incremental solution of power grids using random walks
AU - Boghrati, Baktash
AU - Sapatnekar, Sachin
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - It is common for a designer to consider making several small changes to a power grid, corresponding to "what if" scenarios, in an attempt to improve its performance. To evaluate the effects of each incremental change, the circuit must go through incremental analysis. This paper presents a computationally effi-cient and accurate method for fast and accurate incremental analysis using random walks to identify a region of influence (RoI) of a change, so that this RoI can then be analyzed by any other solver. Our experimental results demonstrate the accuracy and computational efficiency of this method.
AB - It is common for a designer to consider making several small changes to a power grid, corresponding to "what if" scenarios, in an attempt to improve its performance. To evaluate the effects of each incremental change, the circuit must go through incremental analysis. This paper presents a computationally effi-cient and accurate method for fast and accurate incremental analysis using random walks to identify a region of influence (RoI) of a change, so that this RoI can then be analyzed by any other solver. Our experimental results demonstrate the accuracy and computational efficiency of this method.
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U2 - 10.1109/ASPDAC.2010.5419787
DO - 10.1109/ASPDAC.2010.5419787
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951224539
SN - 9781424457656
T3 - Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC
SP - 757
EP - 762
BT - 2010 15th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2010
T2 - 2010 15th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2010
Y2 - 18 January 2010 through 21 January 2010
ER -