@ARTICLE{6416098, author={Xiaoming Chen and Yu Wang and Huazhong Yang}, journal={Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on}, title={NICSLU: An Adaptive Sparse Matrix Solver for Parallel Circuit Simulation}, year={2013}, month={Feb}, volume={32}, number={2}, pages={261-274}, keywords={digital simulation;electronic engineering computing;integrated circuit modelling;matrix decomposition;sparse matrices;KLU;NICSLU;SPICE-like circuit simulators;adaptive sparse matrix solver;circuit matrix irregular structure;multicore-multisocket central processing units;multithreaded parallel LU factorization algorithm;numeric LU factorization;parallel circuit simulation;shared-memory computers;simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis-like circuit simulators;Algorithm design and analysis;Circuit simulation;Integrated circuit modeling;Parallel algorithms;Sparse matrices;Transient analysis;Parallel circuit simulation;parallel LU factorization}, doi={10.1109/TCAD.2012.2217964}, ISSN={0278-0070},}