Scaling power/ground solvers on multi-core with memory bandwidth awareness
Jin Shi, Yici Cai · 2010
The power/ground solvers have to solve circuits with millions of nodes, and are generally assumed as processor-bounded in former study. In this paper, we focused on micro-architectural level of power/ground solvers on multi-core and identified insufficient memory bandwidth can possibly lead to poor scalability, which can be a common issue. Several solutions such as better memory traffic efficiency, reusing in-cache data and assistance of other device had been proposed to improve power/ground solvers on multi-core.