Special Purpose Computer Architecture for LU Factorization of Partitioned Systems.
Abstract
The simulation of large-scale integrated circuits requires a considerable amount of computation time using the currently available circuit simulation programs like SPICE. One of the bottlenecks of these simulation programs is in solving these systems of linear equations using LU factorization. This thesis explores the idea of a nested clustering algorithm to partition the matrices into bordered block diagonal form in order to partition the matrices into bordered block diagonal form in order to facilitate parallel processing. In addition, an architecture combining both the systolic array and the wavefront array processors is proposed to perform the LU factorization of the partitioned system usig highly concurrent parallel processor arrays. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA161351
Entities
People
- Kin-man I. Lui
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign