Fast transient analysis of system-level Power Delivery Networks
Alessandro Giambattista
Fast transient analysis of system-level Power Delivery Networks.
Rel. Stefano Grivet Talocia. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Electronic Engineering, 2024
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Abstract
This thesis aims to develop a MATLAB code capable of performing a fast transient analysis of a microprocessor's power delivery network (PDN). The initial phase of the research involved implementing the Waveform Relaxation (WR) method, also known as the perturbation approach, to simulate power integrity. The WR method showed promising results when applied to simpler PDNs, successfully validating signal behavior under transient conditions. However, in more complex PDN configurations, the method revealed significant convergence issues, tending towards numerical instability and divergence. To overcome these limitations, the research shifted to the Picard iteration method. This approach, similar to WR, calculates solutions iteratively, improving convergence by summing the computed error at each iteration step until reaching a predetermined accuracy.
The Picard iteration method was systematically tested on increasingly complex PDNs, starting with synthetic microprocessor models containing two cores and scaling up to full microprocessor models comprising up to 60 cores
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