If you specified post, hspice stores the circuit solution in either steady state, time, or frequency domain. According to the hspice quick reference guide posted at harvard, there is a. So far we have covered circuits with resistors and independent sources. Hspice is not available for mac but there are a few alternatives that runs on macos with similar functionality. The vcvs output is clipped when the magnitude is less than 0. The first commercial version of spice is ispice, an interactive version on a timeshare service, national css. General process note for translation purposes, spice2 and spice3 are almost identical and are referenced in this manual as spice23. These lectures can help you to understand the concepts of feedback and others. Figure 1 shows how a simulation is run from the composer environment and figure 2 is for analog artist. For detailed information, see voltage and current controlled elements in the hspice simulation and analysis user guide. If that doesnt suit you, our users have ranked 5 alternatives to hspice and three of them are available for mac so hopefully you can find a suitable. The outer sweep is time, and the inner sweep varies the parameter values. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use star hspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs. This document and the software described herein is only provided under a written.
Electronic circuit optimization this project is dedicated to the optimization of any electrical and electronic circuits and compon. This software and documentation contain confidentialand proprietary information that is the property of synopsys, inc. Delay element see voltagecontrolled voltage source vcvs in the hspice simulation and analysis user guide. Parameters enclosed by braces are required, while, those in brackets are optional. A complete list of all spice offerings and software downloads for a wide range of platforms. Behavioral voltage source see voltage and current controlled elements in the hspice simulation and analysis user guide. This software and documentation contain confidential and proprietary information that is the. For more specific details and examples refer to that manual. Cadence pspice technology offers more than 33,000 models covering various types of devices that are included in the pspice lite software. Refill and transfer prescriptions online or find a cvs pharmacy near you.
Hspice is an analog circuit simulator similar to berkeleys spice3 capable of. Then hspice reads the next set of parameter values, and performs another 100 transient analyses. Synopsys hspice advances circuit simulation performance and. Please consult the metasoftware manual available from the dsl, room 100m. We present a detailed analysis of logarithmic active pixel sensors logaps to be used in cmos imagers for realtime onchip motion detection. This hspice waveform viewer presented here can be useful for engineers running hspice simulations routinely. Hspice is just a program that takes in a netlist a simple text. Hspice generally has better convergence than spice3 and, because it is a commercial product from meta software, is better supported. The spectre vcvs device is translated as an ads vcvs device. This document and the software described herein is only provided under a written license agreement or a type of. Single point a single point experiment is a simple procedure that produces. Starhspice manual the university of texas at dallas. This software and documentation contain confidential. It was developed as public domain software at the university of california and versions 2g6 vanilla spice and 3.
See voltagecontrolled voltage source vcvs in the hspice simulation and analysis user guide. Introduction spice simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis is a widelyused circuit simulation program. If you intend to use hspice for integrated circuits simulation you will need to make use of many of these. Synopsys hspice is an optimizing analog circuit simulator. Widthout card that you can use to set the number of columns in the output before linewrapping occurswidthout2 unfortunately it also says that the only choices are 80 or 2 columns, so if youre wrapping at 2 columns you might just have to reduce the number of nodes output or use a binary format. Hspice supports the following voltage and current controlled elements. Her company, meta software, produced compound annual growth rate in excess of 2530 percent every year for 18 years, and eventually became part of synopsys, which calls hspice the gold standard for accurate. Leda, mast, meta, metasoftware, modeltools, nanosim, openvera, pathmill, photolynx, physical compiler. New bsimsoidd model, new junction cap model, mextram level 504 upgrade, bsimsoipd model upgrade, bsim4 model upgrade, philips mos9 model upgrade, bsim4 noise model, ibis model enhancements. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version y2006.
It was developed by the group of john ousterhout at the university of california at berkeley. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version z2007. Hspice automatically looks for a file in the local directory named i. Magic magic is an interactive layout editor supporting online design rule checking and circuit extraction. The software and documentation are furnished under a license agreement and may. The software and documentation are furnishedunder a license agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the licenseagreement.
Hspice simulation and analysis manual, release u2003. These graphs are very useful in engineering and project design management. I set the gain of vcvs in hspice simulation from the ade, but the netlist is. If you installed cst, you will have to avoid using 27000 port, because its occupied, try replacing 27000 with 27002 in your hspice license file copy synopsys. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use star hspice to develop, test, analyze, and. Hspice the hspice optimizing analog circuit simulator is a circuit analysis tool that is used to simulate electrical circuits in steadystate, transient, and frequency domains. Bsim2 and bsim3 are implemented as levels 39, 47, and 49. Chapter 5 using sources and stimuli class home pages. Hspice executes the analyses specified in the input file. The bin prefix will ensure that the bin hspice script is used to run smartspice rather than meta software s hspice.
Star hspice quick reference guide 11 1chapter 1 introduction this quick reference guide is a condensed version of the star hspice manual. One of the first commercial spice simulators was hspice from meta software. Snps, the world leader in semiconductor design software, today announced significant performance enhancements and extended highfrequency design support in hspice, the industry standard for accurate circuit simulation and cornerstone product within the discovery ams verification solution. It can display the transient or ac simulation results stored in binary or text files easily and generate publication quality plots. Ideal opamp see ideal opamp in the hspice simulation and analysis user guide. Adding delay to a voltage controlled voltage source vcvs. Starhspice quick reference guide columbia university. Alternatives to hspice for windows, mac, linux, software as a service saas, web and more. This manual describes the starhspice circuit and device simulation software. Hspice also has the added benefit of being able to do some algebriac manipulation of some variables. The second value of the pair is the output voltage when the control voltage is equal to the first value of that pair. Pspice model library includes parameterized models such as bjts, jfets, mosfets, igbts, scrs, discretes, operational amplifiers, optocouplers, regulators, and pwm controllers from various ic vendors. Using pspice for circuits with dependent sources the problems in this tutorial and the corresponding homework continue to deal with the dc analysis of circuits, or dc bias analysis in pspice. Multiple chips arranged in a planar or stacked configuration with an interposer for communication.
The most prominent commercial versions of spice include hspice originally commercialized by ashawna and kim hailey of meta software, but now owned by synopsys and pspice now owned by cadence design systems. The variables can be user defined or just the volatages and currents at nodes e. Described as a behavioural voltage source, the only difference i can see between that and a vcvs is the ability to specify more complex relationships rather than a. Licensemaintenance for hspice will expire on 17may202011. Heres a brief reference of the spice devices and statements. Hspice tutorial university of california, berkeley. This tutorial introduces the dependent source elements in pspice. This manual describes the starhspice circuit and device simulation software and how to use it. The unified coverage interoperability standard ucis provides an application programming interface api that enables the sharing of coverage data across software simulators, hardware accelerators, symbolic simulations, formal tools or custom verification tools. Ashawna hailey october 8, 1949 october 14, 2011, created the hspice program which large parts of the worldwide semiconductor industry use to simulate and design silicon chips. Hspice output graph data ac analysis measurement results. This manual is intended for design engineers who use starhspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs. This software and documentation contain confidential and proprietary information that is the property of.
Silvaco running smartspice from the cadence framework. Hspice is an analog circuit simulator similar to berkeleys spice3 capable of performing transient, steady state, and frequency domain analyses. Figure 23 equivalent vcvs and ideal transformer hspice models. Spice pioneers reveal history of 40yearold circuit simulator. Analysis and methods hspice version h92 meta software on. An opamp when used in a circuit can be made to work as one of the following vcvs vccs ccvs or cccs. Hspice stores the simulation results requested in either an output listing file or if you specified.
This name can be overridden with an entry in any g file of. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version x2005. Shop online, see extracare deals, find minuteclinic locations and more. A memory architecture in which memory cells are designed vertically instead of using a traditional floating gate. Most it is important for those developers those who are using cvs on command prompt. Downloadable tools university of california, berkeley. Hspice uses level49 for bsim3 and level54 for bsim4 syntax for a switch in hspice is. Leda, mast, meta, metasoftware, modeltools, nanosim, openvera, pathmill, photolynx.
Pcbased version spice created by microsim and acquired by orcad. Based on an equivalent circuit model for cmoscompatible photodiodes, an hspice simulation has been used to characterize different configurations of these sensors under various conditions of light intensities and switching speeds. E elements voltage controlled voltage sourcevcvs linear polynomial piecewise linear subnam subcircuit model reference name xyyy subcircuit element. A lookup table is used to specify the transfer function. The kind of feedback that we provide to the input determines whether the circuit employing opamp will work as a vcvs or vccs or anything else. The star hspice optimizing analog circuit simulator is a industrialgrade circuit analysis product for the simulation of electrical circuits in steadystate, transient, and frequency domains. Also, the set the delay of vcvs, in hpsice netlist, the delay will not present. These release notes describe the changes to star hspice and avanwaves for the 2001. In tinati, you could add a delay by using the time controlled switch to turn on 50ns after the amplification, or you could build an rc filter for delay after the vcvs. The most popular mac alternative is ngspice, which is both free and open source. The hspice default search order for the g file is as follows. Over the last 2 years, hspices runtime performance on one core has improved, on average, over 5x on large pre and post layout analog, mixedsignal, and memory designs. You can use it to simulate electrical circuits in steadystate, transient, and frequency domains.
Parameters followed by an asterisk should be repeated as necessary. I think i have a workaround now that current limits and diode clamps the output of the first vcvs, and feeds that voltage into a second vcvs as a buffer. The hspice rf user guide also indicates which features of hspice are supported in hspice rf. Leonid, i do not believe that tinati or pspice support the delay parameter for a vcvs. There is no manual description about how to use hsplot because it is now unsupported software from avant but again it is more stable and simpler, so usually we dont need their support too much. By providing support on multiple platforms, offering support, and fixing problems in the source code, meta software established a successful business and sold 11,000 copies before the company was acquired by avanti, hailey said.
The intent of this guide is to have a handy quick reference. The ed 101 0 valuev50,100 formula is pspice syntax and is equivalent to ed 101 0 volv50,100 in hspice. Because they dont give us technical support web pages, i will give this information for your convenience. This list contains a total of 5 apps similar to hspice. E elements voltage controlled voltage sourcevcvs linear polynomial piecewise linear subnam subcircuit model reference name xyyy subcircuit element name. Existing spice decks created for spice 3 can be easily modified to run under hspice, or can be rewritten to take advantage of features not available in spice3. Sep 29, 2015 looks like the same deal with no limits on vccs. Hspice is one of spice variations commercialized by a company meta software from engineerin vlsi at islamic azad university. Im doing schematic and simulation of opamp circuit using synopsys hspice 90nm technology. Filter by license to discover only free or open source alternatives. Ltspice offers the ability to make a vcvs with piecewiselinear transfer function. For descriptions of features that hspice rf supports, but hspice does not, see the hspice rf user guide. In addition, hspice deliverers superior multicore scalability with an.
Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Save this file, and its your final hspice license file. Vcvs means visual cvs in which we provide the gui for cvs commands to handle cvs easily. Hspice rf also supports some but not all of these features.
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