Multicore fastSpice extends reach
Cadence Design Systems has expanded the reach of its parallelized fastSpice engine and Spectre XPS tool to support general-purpose analog and mixed-signal designs. The company launched Spectre XPS last...
View ArticleNI moves Spice to FPGA for faster simulations
National Instruments has found a way to speed up Spice simulations that does not involve changing the algorithms. Instead, the company’s MultiSim tool can now download the matrices used to calculate...
View ArticleDAC 2015 forecast: Cloudy with a chance of Spice installs
ProPlus Design Solutions is teaming up with Runtime Design Automation (RTDA) and Zentera Systems to demonstrate its Spice simulation and design for yield (DFY) tools running in the cloud at this year’s...
View ArticleFastSpice update improves parallelism and adds wreal support
The latest update to the CustomSim FastSpice tool from Synopsys provides more consistent speedups from multicore workstations. The 15.06 adds specific accelerations for circuits designed for BCD...
View ArticlePSpice builds interfaces to PCB and system-level cosimulation
The use of digitally assisted analog and interactions between embedded software and analog I/O is driving changes in the way that Spice is being used at the PCB level. Virtual prototyping is being used...
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SNUG 2016: Intel, TSMC, GloFo back post-finFET research at UC Berkeley
Intel and two of the world’s largest foundries, TSMC and GlobalFoundries, are backing research into an emerging next-generation silicon device jointly led by ‘finFET’s father’, Professor Chenming Hu of...
View ArticleIntento uses graphs to optimize analog blocks
Startup Intento Design has launched an analog-circuit migration and optimization tool based on a technique that is meant to reduce significantly the amount of simulation needed to develop viable...
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FastSPICE upgrade boosts nano-scale analog verification by up to 10X
Mentor, a Siemens business, has added ‘eXTreme’ technology to raise the performance of its Analog FastSPICE Platform (AFS) by as much as an order of magnitude. The enhancements, available free of...
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ROHM eases component choice by offering cloud simulation and collaboration...
A Japanese component supplier is making it easier for its customers to choose the right parts for their designs by offering a powerful analog and mixed-signal (AMS) simulation environment through its...
View ArticleSiemens compiles analog into simulation for faster debug
With the aim of speeding up the debug and verification of large mixed-signal SoCs, Siemens Digital Industries Software has launched a second version of its Symphony simulation environment. Symphony Pro...
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