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Title: Hspice or Spectre? Post by wliu2006 on Apr 14th, 2008, 2:30am Well I am a newcomer in analog design. The first question is which CAD tool to use. I think accuracy is my primary concern. So Hspice or Spectre? Please help me and give me some advice. Thanks a lot!

Title: Re: Hspice or Spectre? Post by pancho_hideboo on Apr 14th, 2008, 3:13am wliu2006 wrote on Apr 14th, 2008, 2:30am: Well I am a newcomer in analog design. The first question is which CAD tool to use. I think accuracy is my primary concern. So Hspice or Spectre? Please help me and give me some advice. Thanks a lot! You had better post such issue to Circuit Simulators not RF Simulators. Regarding accuracy, both are almost same. So choose which one you buy according to money you have. Spectre is expensive than HSPICE even though HSPICE RF is included. http://www.edaboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=303209&highlight=

Title: Re: Hspice or Spectre? Post by wliu2006 on Apr 16th, 2008, 5:25pm pancho_hideboo wrote on Apr 14th, 2008, 3:13am: wliu2006 wrote on Apr 14th, 2008, 2:30am: Well I am a newcomer in analog design. The first question is which CAD tool to use. I think accuracy is my primary concern. So Hspice or Spectre? Please help me and give me some advice. Thanks a lot! You had better post such issue to Circuit Simulators not RF Simulators. Regarding accuracy, both are almost same. So choose which one you buy according to money you have. Spectre is expensive than HSPICE even though HSPICE RF is included. http://www.edaboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=303209&highlight= Thank you for your kind reply.

Title: Re: Hspice or Spectre? Post by pancho_hideboo on Apr 24th, 2008, 5:28pm SmartSpice(RF) of Simucad is cheaper than HSPICE. http://www.simucad.com/products/circuit_simulation/smartspice.html http://www.simucad.com/products/RFsimulation/smartSpiceRF.html About transient analysis, SmartSpice enoughly competes with HSPICE regarding speed and accuracy. So accuracy of transient analysis of SmartSpice is almost same as Spectre. Since SmartSpice is cheaper than HSPICE, it is far cheaper than Spectre. But I don't know about perfomance as RF simulator.

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