Modelling, Simulation and Optimization of Integrated Circuits Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Oberwolfach, November 25-December 1, 2001

Device Simulation and Applications.- Hydrodynamical Model for GaAs Semiconductors Based on the Maximum Entropy Principle with Application to Electronic Devices.- Modeling and Simulation of Electro-Quasistatic Fields.- Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit System Design for UMTS Terminal Receivers.- Finite-element Discretizations of Semiconductor Energy-transport Equations.- Circuit Simulation and DAE's.- An Embedding Approach for the Simulation of Electronic Circuits with Widely Seperated Time Scales.- Actual Problems of Circuit Simulation in Industry.- Periodic Steady State Computation with the Poincaré-map Method.- Periodic AC and Periodic Noise in RF Simulation for Electronic Circuit Design.- Differential Algebraic Systems with Properly Stated Leading Term and MNA Equations.- A Parallel Finite Difference Method for Multirate Partial Differential Algebraic Equations.- Feasibility Regions and their Significance to the Hierarchical Optimization of Analog and Mixed-Signal Systems.- Coupling of Devices and Circuits.- Modeling and Discretization of a Thermal-Electric Test Circuit.- A Refined PDAE Network Model for a CMOS Ring Oscillator.- Parasitics Reduction for Analog Circuit Simulation.- Modeling Circuit Systems Coupled with Distributed Semiconductor Equations.- Circuits with Stochastic Sources.- Transient Noise Simulation: Modeling and Simulation of 1/ f-Noise.- Noise Analysis of Nonlinear Electrical Circuits and Devices.- On Parametric Test Design for Analog Integrated Circuits considering Error in Measurement and Stimulus.- Stochastic DAEs in Circuit Simulation.- Advanced Mathematical Tools.- An Efficient Way to Avoid the Order Reduction of Linearly Implicit Runge-Kutta Methods for Nonlinear IBVP's.- Solution of Linear Systems with Sparse Matrices.- The Performances of the Code TOM on the Holt Problem.