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Streamlined Circuit Device Model Development with fREEDA® and ADOL-C-
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Area
Electrical Engineering |
Author(s)
Frank P. Hart
, Nikhil Kriplani
, Sonali R. Luniya
, Carlos E. Christoffersen
, Michael B. Steer
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Published in
Automatic Differentiation: Applications, Theory, and Implementations
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Editor(s)
H. M. Bücker, G. Corliss, P. Hovland, U. Naumann, B. Norris |
Year
2005 |
Publisher
Springer |
Abstract
Time-marching simulation of electronic circuits using the U.C. Berkeley program Spice and variants has been a standard practice for electronics engineers since the mid-1970s. Unfortunately, the development cycle of Spice models may be lengthy because device model equations and their derivatives must be coded manually. Also, many files in the source tree must be modified to define a new model. fREEDA®, http://www.freeda.org, an object-oriented circuit simulator under development at several universities, overcomes many limitations of the conventional electronic model development paradigm. A key to this implementation is the ADOL-C package, which is used to automatically evaluate the derivatives of the device model equations. Resulting models are more compact, and the development time is shorter. The development history of selected Spice models and their fREEDA® counterparts are presented to illustrate the advantages of this approach. |
Cross-References
Bucker2005ADA |
AD Tools
ADOL-C |
Related Applications
- Circuit Simulation
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BibTeX
@INCOLLECTION{
Hart2005SCD,
author = "Frank P. Hart and Nikhil Kriplani and Sonali R. Luniya and Carlos E. Christoffersen
and Michael B. Steer",
title = "Streamlined Circuit Device Model Development with
$\mbox{fREEDA}^{\tiny{\textregistered}}$ and {ADOL-C}",
editor = "H. M. B{\"u}cker and G. Corliss and P. Hovland and U. Naumann and B.
Norris",
booktitle = "Automatic Differentiation: {A}pplications, Theory, and Implementations",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering",
publisher = "Springer",
year = "2005",
abstract = "Time-marching simulation of electronic circuits using the U.C. Berkeley program
Spice and variants has been a standard practice for electronics engineers since the mid-1970s.
Unfortunately, the development cycle of Spice models may be lengthy because device model equations
and their derivatives must be coded manually. Also, many files in the source tree must be modified
to define a new model.
{{\textsl{\textsf{f}}}{\textup{\textsf{REEDA}}}{\textsuperscript{\tiny{\textregistered}}}},
\url{http://www.freeda.org}, an object-oriented circuit simulator under development at several
universities, overcomes many limitations of the conventional electronic model development paradigm.
A key to this implementation is the ADOL-C package, which is used to automatically evaluate the
derivatives of the device model equations. Resulting models are more compact, and the development
time is shorter. The development history of selected Spice models and their
{{\textsl{\textsf{f}}}{\textup{\textsf{REEDA}}}{\textsuperscript{\tiny{\textregistered}}}}
counterparts are presented to illustrate the advantages of this approach.",
crossref = "Bucker2005ADA",
ad_area = "Electrical Engineering",
ad_tools = "ADOL-C",
pages = "295--307",
doi = "10.1007/3-540-28438-9_26"
}
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