This book describes algorithmic methods and parallelization techniques
to design a parallel sparse direct solver which is specifically targeted
at integrated circuit simulation problems. The authors describe a
complete flow and detailed parallel algorithms of the sparse direct
solver. They also show how to improve the performance by simple but
effective numerical techniques. The sparse direct solver techniques
described can be applied to any SPICE-like integrated circuit simulator
and have been proven to be high-performance in actual circuit
simulation. Readers will benefit from the state-of-the-art parallel
integrated circuit simulation techniques described in this book,
especially the latest parallel sparse matrix solution techniques.