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In the paper the parallel environment for simulation of electronic circuits is presented. The proposed solution bases on PVM distributed computing environment software. For semiconductor devices the physical 2-dimensional models can be used instead of lumped ones in order to obtain more precise simulation results and to have a look inside the semiconductor structure. In the paper the architecture of the simulator is discussed and the example of simulation of simple switching circuit containing IGBT device is presented. In the conclusion the future possibilities of extending of the program are presented.
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Grecki, M., Jabłoński, G., Napieralski, A. (1997). MOPS — parallel environment for simulation of electronic circuits using physical models of semiconductor devices. In: Bubak, M., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63697-8_120
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