Addressing simulation of electrical and optoelectronic circuits considering multidisciplinary issues

在当今的信息社会中，个人数字助理、智能手机和个人电脑市场的不断增长，增加了对更大处理能力的需求，同时保持了微型设备的外形因素。这给设计界带来了巨大的负担，要在更小的面积内设计出更快、性能更好的电路。此外，由于微型特征尺寸和大规模集成，与不同物理学科相关的效应开始在现代设备中一起出现。建立在传统仿真引擎上的商业设计工具大多局限于单一学科的分析，无法捕捉这些效应的多学科性质。可靠的工具的可用性，促进多学科的设备和系统的模拟是必不可少的，在未来的设计车间，可以帮助设计界生产更好的质量产品，以成本效益的方式。

Growing markets for personal digital assistants, smart phones and personal computers in our present day information society has increased the need for greater processing power while maintaining miniature device form factors. This has placed an enormous burden on the design community to design faster circuits with better performance in a smaller area. In addition, owing to miniature feature sizes and massive integration, effects pertaining to distinct physics disciplines have started to surface together in modern devices. Commercial design tools built on traditional simulation engines are mostly restricted to analysis in a single discipline and are incapable of capturing the multi-disciplinary nature of these effects. Availability of reliable tools that facilitate multi-disciplinary simulation of devices and systems is essential in future design shops and can aid the design community to produce products with better quality in a cost-effective manner.