2009/10/29, Alan Grimes <agri...@speakeasy.net>: > In recent weeks, all of my changes had to do with the Component > heirarchy, fixing pins and wires, and a pass through the connector > hell-hole. > > I've also added some compile-time switches to toggle strict error > checking in the engine, that's all. > > Okay, so what in god's name is going on here? Well, I'll tell you. > > > Problem 1: > > The row permutation algorithm is broken. > > Many cases the engine will be given a pathalogical but non-broken > matrix. A matrix for which there is a solution but the current > single-pass permutation system will not find the correct permutation and > then the thing goes crazy. When this happens, the simulation goes crazy > showing absurdly large currents and voltages. Want to know why? The > permutation loop. Fixing it will not be easy and will involve carefully > evaluating how changes to that loop will affect the partial solution > cache that ktechlab owes much of its speed to. > > There are a number of things that can be done to further improve the > performance of the linear algebra engine but these will not earn you > more than 5% over what we have now. The slowness we see in profiling is > due to the issues below. (It might also simply be inherent to the > problem at hand...) > > > Problem 2: Nonlinear and all of its children. > > The reason perform non-linear is slow is two reasons, first, inherent > slowness in the system and second, because the models for a number of > the components are horribly, horribly wrong. I'm about 85% sure that the > computation of the conductance of the diode in forward bias is correct. > I'm not at all sure about the current calculation. =( Also, correcting > the conductance in the diode seems to have broken something about Jfet, > which had seemed to be doing very well recently. =( (Not all of these > changes are in SVN). > > To better understand WTF is going on here, the word of the day may as > well be "Numerical Integration." What is basically going on is that the > nonlinear classes generate values for the derivative of the conductance > and then by iteration attempt to converge on the solution. If this > works, everything's happy. If it doesn't, well... > > > Problem 3: My current diodeTest circuit is showing some faults that I > can't readily explain. The test of the many different LED circuits seems > to stall out even though the engine is configured to keep going no > matter what. I have no idea what's really going on there. =( > > > -- > New president: Here we go again... > Chemistry.com: A total rip-off. > Powers are not rights. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > Ktechlab-devel mailing list > Ktechlab-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ktechlab-devel >
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