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What is your favorite SPICE and Fast SPICE circuit simulator?
Apr 29th, 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

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Re: What is your favorite SPICE and Fast SPICE circuit simulator?
Reply #1 - Apr 30th, 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.)
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Reply #2 - Apr 30th, 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.

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Reply #3 - May 1st, 2010, 9:00am
 
Also it'll be good to ask what flow they use for AMS and what value they see in doing it.
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Reply #4 - May 1st, 2010, 10:33am
 
By flow do you mean top-down or bottom-up?
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