Patent ID: 7310595

Claim:
A method of modeling a circuit element, the method comprising: dividing the circuit element into two or more segments; further dividing each segment into a plurality of filaments; defining a horizontal plane of symmetry about said circuit element such that a first group of filaments are positioned above said plane of symmetry and a second group of filaments are positioned below said first plane of symmetry; providing a plurality of filament pairs, wherein each of said plurality of filament pairs comprises one filament in said first group of filaments and one filament in said second group of filaments wherein the one filament in said first group is generally symmetrical to the one filament in the second group; and using at least one matrix implementing element characteristics representative of the filaments to model the circuit element, wherein the at least one matrix uses the defined horizontal plane of symmetry and filament pairs in generating the model of the circuit element.