Statistic Analysis of Power/Ground Networks Using Single-Node SOR Method

Zuying Luo1 and Sheldon Xiang Dong Tan2
1College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, 2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Riverside, Riverside CA, 92521, USA


Abstract

In this paper, we propose an efficient statistical analysis method for analyzing on-chip power grids. The new method, called SN-SOR (and its faster version, PSN-SOR), is based on a novel localized relaxed iterative approach and it can perform variational analysis on one node at a time. PSN-SOR further speeds up the analysis by using a refined conditioner, where the initial solution of SN-SOR is used as the pre-conditioner for the later iterations. Experimental results show that PSN-SOR is about two orders of magnitude faster than Monte-Carlo method with small errors and is about one order magnitude faster than general global successive over relaxation (SOR) method. PSN-SOR is more accurate and efficient than the recently proposed random walk method for localized statistical analysis.