pkgsrc/cad/fastcap/pkg/DESCR
frueauf 87597fc92c Initial addition of a fast 3-D capacitance solver.
Closes pr 5418 by Dan McMahill; heavy portlinting.
1998-06-06 22:42:58 +00:00

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FastCap is a three-dimensional capacitance extraction program.
FastCap computes self and mutual capacitances between ideal
conductors of arbitrary shapes, orientations and sizes.
The conductors can be embedded in a dielectric region composed
of any number of constant-permittivity regions of any shape and
size.
The algorithm used in FastCap is an acceleration of the
boundary-element technique for solving the integral equation
associated with the multiple-conductor, multiple-dielectric
capacitance extraction problem. The linear system resulting
from the boundary-element discretization is solved using a
generalized conjugate residual algorithm with a fast multipole
algorithm to efficiently compute the iterates.
FastCap was written at MIT by the MIT RLE VLSI-CAD research
group (http://rle-vlsi.mit.edu/).