Results of NICSLU (from an old version)

NGSPICE Results (TRAN simulation time)

Tested on a Windows 7 desktop with Intel i7-4790 CPU & 16GB RAM.

1. Pre-layout style/pure digital circuits

Model evaluation dominate, negligible solver time, but NICSLU is still faster than SPARSE 1.3 in NGSPICE

2. Post-layout style/ large circuits with some MOSFETs

Sparse solver dominate, NICSLU shows extremely outstanding performance than both SPARSE 1.3 and KLU

Benchmark Results

If you want to see raw data, please click here to download an EXCEL file.

These data can be used in your paper for comparison.

Tested on an Ubuntu server with Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 CPU & 128GB RAM.

I used icc 14.0.3 with Intel MKL 11.1.3. All solvers were tested with their default configurations.

Speedups for refactor+solve time