Jacob K. White
Jacob K. White is the Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] He researches fast numerical algorithms for simulation, particularly the simulation of circuits. His work on the FASTCAP[2][3] program for three-dimensional capacitance calculation and FASTHENRY,[4] a program for three-dimensional inductance calculations, is highly cited. He has also done extensive work on steady-state simulation of analog and microwave circuits.[5] White was a significant early contributor to the development of Spectre and SpectreRF.
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White received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985, working on waveform relaxation[6] under advising professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. He worked for IBM prior to joining the MIT faculty.[7]
White was made a Fellow of the IEEE in 2008 "for contributions to simulation tools for RF circuits, electrical interconnects, and micro machined devices."[8] In 2022 he, along with Ricardo Telichevesky and Ken Kundert, was awarded the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation for their paper Efficient steady-state analysis based on matrix-free Krylov-subspace methods.[9]
References
- Research Laboratory of Electronics Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine at MIT.
- Nabors, K.; White, J.K. (November 1991). "FastCap: A Multipole Accelerated 3-D Capacitance Extraction Program". IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 10 (11): 1447–1459. doi:10.1109/43.97624.
- Philips, J. R.; White, J. K. (October 1997). "A precorrected-FFT method for electrostatic analysis of complicated 3-D structures". IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 16 (10): 1059–1072. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.20.791. doi:10.1109/43.662670.
- Kamon, M., Tsuk, M.J., and White, J.K. (September 1994). "FASTHENRY: a multipole-accelerated 3-D inductance extraction program". IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 42 (9): 1750–1758. Bibcode:1994ITMTT..42.1750K. doi:10.1109/22.310584.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Kundert, K. S., White. J. K., and Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, A., Steady-state Methods for Simulating Analog and Microwave Circuits, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston , 1990
- White, Jacob K., The Multirate Integration Properties of Waveform Relaxation, with Applications to Circuit Simulation and Parallel Computation, Memorandum No. UCB/ERL 85/90, University of California, Berkeley, November 1985
- Vita Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine from White's lab.
- "IEEE - Fellows - W". www.ieee.org. Archived from the original on 2010-06-19.
- Telichevesky, R.; Kundert, K. S.; White, J. K. (1995). "Efficient steady-state analysis based on matrix-free Krylov-subspace methods". Proc. 32nd ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference, San Francisco. pp. 480–484. doi:10.1145/217474.217574.