Jacob K. White Explained

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.

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]

External links

• Web page at MIT

Notes and References

1. http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/JacobK.White.html Research Laboratory of Electronics
2. Nabors, K. . White, J.K. . FastCap: A Multipole Accelerated 3-D Capacitance Extraction Program . IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 10 . 11 . November 1991 . 1447 - 1459 . 10.1109/43.97624.
3. Philips, J. R. . White, J. K. . 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 . October 1997 . 1059 - 1072 . 10.1109/43.662670. 10.1.1.20.791 .
4. Kamon, M., Tsuk, M.J., and White, J.K. . FASTHENRY: a multipole-accelerated 3-D inductance extraction program. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 42 . 9. September 1994 . 1750 - 1758 . 10.1109/22.310584. 1994ITMTT..42.1750K.
5. Kundert, K. S., White. J. K., and Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, A., Steady-state Methods for Simulating Analog and Microwave Circuits, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1990
6. 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
7. http://www.rle.mit.edu/rleonline/People/JacobK.White_cv.html Vita
8. Web site: IEEE - Fellows - W . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100619154042/http://ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/wfellows.html . 2010-06-19.
9. Telichevesky, R. . Kundert, K. S. . White, J. K. . Efficient steady-state analysis based on matrix-free Krylov-subspace methods . Proc. 32nd ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference, San Francisco . 1995 . 480 - 484 . 10.1145/217474.217574.