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On the Generation of Large Passive Macromodels for Complex Interconnect Structures
This paper addresses some issues related to the passivity of interconnect macromodels computed from measured or simulated port responses. The generation of such macromodels is usually performed via suitable least squares fitting algorithms. When the number of ports and the dynamic order of the macromodel is large, the inclusion of passivity constraints in the fitting process is cumbersome and results in excessive computational and storage requirements. Therefore, we consider in this work a post-processing approach for passivity enforcement, aimed at the detection and compensation of passivity violations without compromising the model accuracy. Two complementary issues are addressed. First, we consider the enforcement of asymptotic passivity at high frequencies based on the perturbation of the direct coupling term in the transfer matrix. We show how potential problems may arise when off-band poles are present in the model. Second, the enforcement of uniform passivity throughout the entire frequency axis is performed via an iterative perturbation scheme on the purely imaginary eigenvalues of associated Hamiltonian matrices. A special formulation of this spectral perturbation using possibly large but sparse matrices allows the passivity compensation to be performed at a cost which scales only linearly with the order of the system. This formulation involves a restarted Arnoldi iteration combined with a complex frequency hopping algorithm for the selective computation of the imaginary eigenvalues to be perturbed. Some examples of interconnect models are used to illustrate the performance of the proposed technique
Passivity Enforcement via Perturbation of Hamiltonian Matrices
This paper presents a new technique for the passivity enforcement of linear time-invariant multiport systems in statespace form. This technique is based on a study of the spectral properties of related Hamiltonian matrices. The formulation is applicable in case the system input-output transfer function is in admittance, impedance, hybrid, or scattering form. A standard test for passivity is first performed by checking the existence of imaginary eigenvalues of the associated Hamiltonian matrix. In the presence of imaginary eigenvalues the system is not passive. In such a case, a new result based on first-order perturbation theory is presented for the precise characterization of the frequency bands where passivity violations occur. This characterization is then used for the design of an iterative perturbation scheme of the state matrices, aimed at the displacement of the imaginary eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian matrix. The result is an effective algorithm leading to the compensation of the passivity violations. This procedure is very efficient when the passivity violations are small, so that first-order perturbation is applicable. Several examples illustrate and validate the procedure
ELSI: A Unified Software Interface for Kohn-Sham Electronic Structure Solvers
Solving the electronic structure from a generalized or standard eigenproblem
is often the bottleneck in large scale calculations based on Kohn-Sham
density-functional theory. This problem must be addressed by essentially all
current electronic structure codes, based on similar matrix expressions, and by
high-performance computation. We here present a unified software interface,
ELSI, to access different strategies that address the Kohn-Sham eigenvalue
problem. Currently supported algorithms include the dense generalized
eigensolver library ELPA, the orbital minimization method implemented in
libOMM, and the pole expansion and selected inversion (PEXSI) approach with
lower computational complexity for semilocal density functionals. The ELSI
interface aims to simplify the implementation and optimal use of the different
strategies, by offering (a) a unified software framework designed for the
electronic structure solvers in Kohn-Sham density-functional theory; (b)
reasonable default parameters for a chosen solver; (c) automatic conversion
between input and internal working matrix formats, and in the future (d)
recommendation of the optimal solver depending on the specific problem.
Comparative benchmarks are shown for system sizes up to 11,520 atoms (172,800
basis functions) on distributed memory supercomputing architectures.Comment: 55 pages, 14 figures, 2 table
On the Generation of Large Passive Macromodels for Complex Interconnect Structures
This paper addresses some issues related to the
passivity of interconnect macromodels computed from measured
or simulated port responses. The generation of such macromodels
is usually performed via suitable least squares fitting algorithms.
When the number of ports and the dynamic order of the macromodel
is large, the inclusion of passivity constraints in the fitting
process is cumbersome and results in excessive computational
and storage requirements. Therefore, we consider in this work
a post-processing approach for passivity enforcement, aimed at
the detection and compensation of passivity violations without
compromising the model accuracy. Two complementary issues
are addressed. First, we consider the enforcement of asymptotic
passivity at high frequencies based on the perturbation of the
direct coupling term in the transfer matrix. We show how potential
problems may arise when off-band poles are present in the
model. Second, the enforcement of uniform passivity throughout
the entire frequency axis is performed via an iterative perturbation
scheme on the purely imaginary eigenvalues of associated
Hamiltonian matrices. A special formulation of this spectral
perturbation using possibly large but sparse matrices allows the
passivity compensation to be performed at a cost which scales only
linearly with the order of the system. This formulation involves a
restarted Arnoldi iteration combined with a complex frequency
hopping algorithm for the selective computation of the imaginary
eigenvalues to be perturbed. Some examples of interconnect
models are used to illustrate the performance of the proposed
techniques
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