A two-level waveform relaxation approach for fast transient simulation of long high-speed interconnects

This paper presents a waveform relaxation approach for efficient transient simulation of fully-coupled high-speed channels of medium to large electrical length. The channel is first described via a passive Delayed Rational Macromodel, which is suitably identified from tabulated scattering data. The structure of the macromodel is then exploited to setup a two-level iterative relaxation scheme for the solution of terminal voltage and current waveforms. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme outperforms standard SPICE-based solvers at no loss of accuracy.

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