Electromigration (EM) becomes a major concern for VLSI circuits as the technology advances in the nanometer regime. With Korhonen equations, EM assessment for VLSI circuits remains challenged due to the increasing integrated density. VLSI multisegment interconnect trees can be naturally viewed as graphs. Based on this observation, we propose a new graph convolution network (GCN) model, which is called {\it EMGraph} considering both node and edge embedding features, to estimate the transient EM stress of interconnect trees. Compared with recently proposed generative adversarial network (GAN) based stress image-generation method, EMGraph model can learn more transferable knowledge to predict stress distributions on new graphs without retraining via inductive learning. Trained on the large dataset, the model shows less than 1.5% averaged error compared to the ground truth results and is orders of magnitude faster than both COMSOL and state-of-the-art method. It also achieves smaller model size, 4X accuracy and 14X speedup over the GAN-based method.
An Efficient Network Solver for Electromagnetic Transient Simulation of Power Systems Based on Hierarchical Inverse Computation and Modification
In both power system transient stability and electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulations, up to 90% of the computational time is devoted to solve the network equations, i.e., a set of linear equations. Traditional approaches are based on sparse LU factorization, which is inherently sequential. In this paper, EMT simulation is considered and an inverse-based
network solution is proposed by a hierarchical method for computing and store the approximate inverse of the conductance matrix. The proposed method can also efficiently update the inverse by modifying only local sub-matrices to reflect changes in the network, e.g., loss of a line. Experiments on a series of simplified 179-bus Western Interconnection demonstrate the advantages of the proposed methods.
- Award ID(s):
- 1636772
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10381017
- Journal Name:
- 2021 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)
- Page Range or eLocation-ID:
- 01 to 06
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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