FINITE-ELEMENT SIMULATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR-DEVICES ON MULTIPROCESSOR COMPUTERS

In this work we describe a methodology for solving the basic set of st ate stationary semiconductor device equations. We present a new iterat ive method for the solution using finite elements, of the non linear P oisson equation and use a Conjugate Gradient type method for solving t he non symmetric continuity equations. The parallelization of this app roach and its projection onto a multiprocessor system with a hypercube topology are carried out. We study the distribution of an irregular m esh of triangular elements over a hypercube and the later parallelizat ion of the resolution method.