Category: SPICE

Porting a multi-threaded SPICE simulator to a massively parallel GPU - interesting academic exercise or shape of things to come?

Synopsys recently announced a multi-core version of HSPICE (2008.03) that can handle, as well as pre-layout circuits, post-layout designs containing in excess of a million parasitic RCs. Prediction is a risky thing, but we called this a little while ago. …

Drawing this series of circuit simulation articles to an end, we take a look at some of the vectors that are forcing change in the circuit simulation arena. Although predictions are inevitably risky and rarely correct, some areas ripe for …

In the handful of articles published to date on this site on the subject of circuit simulation, we’ve visited - briefly, at least - each of the three generations of circuit simulation stretching from the early 1970s to today. Nassda …

In the second of these introductory computer simulation articles we covered Fast-SPICE, the second generation of circuit simulators. This article discusses the third generation of circuit simulation technology, the hierarchical tools, exemplified by HSIM.

Initially aimed at the memory design and …

In the first of these introductory articles on circuit simulation technology, we covered the initial generation of computer simulation software for transistor-level circuits, SPICE and its derivatives and descendents. This article focusses on the second generation of circuit simulators, examples …

Accurate circuit simulation technology is the very foundation of EDA and IC design. The modeling and simulation of circuits enables function and other operational characteristics to be obtained before committing the part to manufacture, let along before providing the part …