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Message started by Riad KACED on Nov 9^th, 2009, 12:11pm

Title: Looking for literature to understand Circuit Simulators
Post by Riad KACED on Nov 9^th, 2009, 12:11pm

Hi Guys,

I'm interested these days in understanding how Analog/Digital Circuit simulators work. I'm curious about knowing the Maths/Algorithms/Numerical methods behind the different analyses a commercial simulator (Spectre, Eldo ... ) Uses.

I googled a bit and did find the "Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms" by Jan Ogrodzki. I did find a few papers as well some of which are from this site (the RF simulation one).

Would you advise the above book ?
Do you know of any other book, dissertation ... that is likely to help me with this topic ?

Thanks for your advice.
Cheers,
Riad.

Title: Re: Looking for literature to understand Circuit Simulators
Post by Frank Wiedmann on Nov 9^th, 2009, 1:58pm

It's funny that you apparently did not find http://www.designers-guide.org/Books/#Kundert-1995 during your search (written by the owner of this website).

Title: Re: Looking for literature to understand Circuit Simulators
Post by Riad KACED on Nov 9^th, 2009, 2:14pm

Hi Frank,

Well, I think I would have said a few words about that book since I have alrady got it on my desk :-[
ken's book is excellent. It is lacking the RF bits though, things like PSS, harmonic balance ... etc. Again, I did find those bits in the http://www.designers-guide.org/Analysis/rf-sim.pdf.

I'm just wondering whether there is something published in the recent years and that are likely to talk about more of the modern techniques since the computer science has rather exploded in the last years.

I would stick at what i have already got otherwise.

Thank you very much for your comments !
Cheers,
Riad.

Title: Re: Looking for literature to understand Circuit Simulators
Post by bjlobby1 on Nov 10^th, 2009, 3:22pm

Hey Riad

Take a look at "Computer methods for circuit analysis and design" by Jiri Vlach and Kishore Singhal.

John

Title: Re: Looking for literature to understand Circuit Simulators
Post by Riad KACED on Nov 12^th, 2009, 2:51pm

Hey John,

Thank you very much for this one !

Cheers,
Riad.