SIMULATION GETS SPEED, CAPACITY BOOST

摘要

ANALOG AND RF-SIMULATION TOOLS OFFER CHOICES OF SIMULATION SPEEDS AND SUPPORT HIERARCHICAL DESIGN STRATEGIES. Speed, accuracy, and ease of use are key demands of designers employing simulation to get their analog-, RF-, and mixed' signal devices to market. Flavors of the venerable Spice simulator remain the tools of choice for analog simulation, and EDA vendors are enhancing the speed and accuracy of their tools through innovative techniques, such as adapting them to run on multicore processors or multi-CPU systems. Other companies are rewriting core Spice algorithms to speed simulations. Still others are focusing on top-down designs.