A method is presented to combine solvers for ordinary and partial differential equations, like SPICE and ANSYS, for thermal-electrical analysis of integrated circuits or systems. A sketch of a first prototype program (SPAN) is given together with the theoretical background, which makes use of convergence principles from waveform relaxation. The approach can also be extended to more general problems within mechatronics simulation. >
['Bernhard Klaassen', 'Karl L. Paap']
SPAN: Tightly coupled thermal and electrical simulation