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Message started by Daniel Payne on Apr 29^th, 2010, 9:51am

Title: What is your favorite SPICE and Fast SPICE circuit simulator?
Post by Daniel Payne on Apr 29^th, 2010, 9:51am

I'll be at DAC this year moderating a panel discussion on SPICE circuit simulators, so I'd love to hear what your favorite simulators are and also what questions I should ask my three panelists: Sun, ST, Atheros.

http://www2.dac.com/panels.aspx?event=93&topic=1

Title: Re: What is your favorite SPICE and Fast SPICE circuit simulator?
Post by Geoffrey_Coram on Apr 30^th, 2010, 5:03am

Sun? How much spice-level simulation does Sun/Oracle do?

I'd ask what sort of simulations these folks are doing -- is it just top-level timing verification?

Did the panelists' companies switch to the best simulator, per their evaluation, or was the decision made to use a different simulator from the EDA vendor with whom the company already had a volume purchase agreement or whose simulator was already integrated in the flow? (Netlists and model libraries are different, though vendor X claims to read vendor Y's format, they may not guarantee 100% compatibility.)

Title: Re: What is your favorite SPICE and Fast SPICE circuit simulator?
Post by Daniel Payne on Apr 30^th, 2010, 7:25am

Geoffrey,

Sun in it's hey days did some top-notch microprocessor designs with the SPARC architecture.

Thanks for the panelist questions.

Daniel

Title: Re: What is your favorite SPICE and Fast SPICE circuit simulator?
Post by love_analog on May 1^st, 2010, 9:00am

Also it'll be good to ask what flow they use for AMS and what value they see in doing it.

Title: Re: What is your favorite SPICE and Fast SPICE circuit simulator?
Post by Daniel Payne on May 1^st, 2010, 10:33am

By flow do you mean top-down or bottom-up?