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、智能电话和个人计算机的市场不断增长，这增加了对更大处理能力的需求，同时保持微型设备的外形尺寸。这给设计界带来了巨大的负担，要求他们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，属于不同物理学科的效果已经开始在现代设备中一起浮出水面。建立在传统模拟引擎基础上的商业设计工具大多局限于单一学科的分析，无法捕捉这些影响的多学科性质。提供可靠的工具来促进设备和系统的多学科模拟在未来的设计工作室中是必不可少的，并可以帮助设计界以具有成本效益的方式生产出质量更好的产品。

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.