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diff --git a/cad/fastcap/DESCR b/cad/fastcap/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ed1c395bd9f --- /dev/null +++ b/cad/fastcap/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +FastCap is a three-dimensional capacitance extraction program. + +FastCap computes self and mutual capacitances between ideal +conductors of arbitrary shapes, orientations and sizes. +The conductors can be embedded in a dielectric region composed +of any number of constant-permittivity regions of any shape and +size. + +The algorithm used in FastCap is an acceleration of the +boundary-element technique for solving the integral equation +associated with the multiple-conductor, multiple-dielectric +capacitance extraction problem. The linear system resulting +from the boundary-element discretization is solved using a +generalized conjugate residual algorithm with a fast multipole +algorithm to efficiently compute the iterates. |