Title
A simulator for high speed digital communications
Abstract
Since parallel processors are generally constrained by the available interprocessor data transfer capability, system designers generally try to push interconnection systems to their limits in bandwidth. Practical and economic systems are constrained by many physical and packaging considerations such as a need to use commercially available connectors. We describe here VisiSolve - a simulator that we have built to predict behaviour of interconnect systems that can readily be assembled from 'off-the-shelf' components. It uses a finite element approach and predicts the dynamic electric field in the cells of the mesh. The irregular geometries of the individual parts of such components require us to adapt the mesh used in simulations in regions where the needs of a practical connector - small size, low insertion force and automatic assembly - have dictated the shape and path of the conductors. We have adopted a method which uses the constitutive error - the discrepancy between electric fields calculated directly and from ∇ x H when H was calculated directly - as an indicator that refinement is needed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/ACAC.2001.903355
ACSAC
Keywords
DocType
Volume
finite element approach,constitutive error,individual part,automatic assembly,available connector,practical connector,high speed,economic system,digital communication,dynamic electric field,available interprocessor data transfer,electric field,finite element,data transfer,system design,economic forecasting,predictive models,bandwidth,packaging,finite element analysis,simulator,geometry,finite element methods,solid modeling
Conference
23
Issue
ISBN
Citations 
4
0-7695-0954-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ernest A Fardin100.34
Peter Munro200.34
Jarred Scagliotta300.34
John Morris400.34