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HSPICE The Gold Standard for Accurate Circuit Simulation |
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Overview
HSPICE® is the industry’s "gold standard" for accurate circuit simulation and offers foundry certified MOS device models with state-of-the-art simulation and analysis algorithms. With over a million designs successfully taped out, HSPICE is the industry’s most trusted and comprehensive circuit simulator. HSPICE is an integral component of Synopsys high-performance mixed-signal verification solution, Discovery™ AMS, which enables designers to achieve the highest throughput and accuracy for even the largest mixed-signal SoC’s. HSPICE has achieved a new level in performance and analysis to meet circuit design needs:- High Performance: HSPICE significantly speeds up for cell characterization applications where speed, power and noise are most important.
- HSPICE RF for high frequency and RF designs: Using its harmonic balance engine, HSPICE RF offers high-capacity non-linear, frequency domain simulation capabilities for RFIC and high frequency designs.
- Signal Integrity: HSPICE simulates enhanced W–elements and extracted S–parameters for accurate signal integrity analysis of PCB’s.
Key Benefits
- Gold Standard for accurate circuit simulation.
- Extensive Model Support of the most accurate and expansive set of industry-standard and proprietary simulation models.
- Performance: Significant speed up for
cell characterization applications.
Accurate RF Simulation:
- Run state-of-the-art linear, noise, and large-signal steady-state RF simulation.
- Use the same foundry approved IC device models for analog, RF, and mixed-signal simulations.
- High Capacity and High Performance
RF Simulation:
- New harmonic balance engine can simulate 8,000 or more active elements quickly.
- Characterize RF Designs: Built in features to help fully characterize analog and RF circuit-transfer functions, noise properties, spectral responses, distortion, and parasitic effects.
- RFIC Applications: A comprehensive set of analysis algorithms helps you design most RFIC blocks: low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, filters, AGC circuits, oscillators, mixers, multipliers, modulators, demodulators, and VCOs.
- Signal Integrity Analysis: Enhanced W–elements and S–parameters to model signal integrity issues and support SI Analysis.
- Industry standard formats and Integration: Comprehensive support for industry-standard formats eases adoption and integration issues.
- Intuitive GUI for greater ease of simulation parameter specification and usage.
Foundry Certified Models
Device models are the key ingredients for accurate circuit simulation. Over the years, HSPICE has consistently provided leadingedge modeling technology that ensures the most advanced and accurate set of industry- standard device-model implementations. Synopsys collaborates closely with leading commercial and proprietary foundries to ensure that their HSPICE model parameters are timely and accurately validated to their fabrication process. The comprehensive set of HSPICE models have been extensively proven over the broadest set of semiconductor technologies, ranging from the latest node in the ITRS roadmap to highly specialized process technologies.
New HSPICE GUI for easier setup of simulation and analysis.
HSPICE is integrated to CosmosScope for powerful waveform analysis.
Improved Performance
HSPICE now offers up to 20x performance important for cell and library characterization applications while maintaining the same high level of accuracy. This improved performance is achieved through an enhanced time-step control algorithm combined with a simplified simulation control interface. With these new features, all simulation tolerances are scaled simultaneously using a single control option, eliminating the need for users to adjust multiple option settings. HSPICE automatically maximizes each time-step size to meet the desired accuracy level.IC Cell Characterization
HSPICE is ideal for performing accurate digital cell characterization and provides versatile waveform measurement functions based on simulation data. A data-driven parameter sweep automates characterization by simultaneously varying any number of parameters to conveniently handle hundreds of HSPICE simulations.Signal Integrity Analysis - (W-Element, S-Parameters, IBIS)
As geometry sizes continue to shrink to dimensions smaller than the wavelength of light, new design and verification challenges emerge. Signal integrity issues explode at 90nm designs as signal paths become longer and more densely routed. HSPICE reveals signal integrity problems caused by cross talk, ringing, and ground bounce. HSPICE can be used to accurately characterize and design clock networks, buses, and critical signals for integrated circuits and printed circuit boards (PCBs).Now, users can readily create accurate S-parameter models based on direct measurements from a network analyzer or based on the solutions of a 3D field solver. HSPICE supports S-parameter models with an arbitrary number of differential and single ended ports. Additionally, HSPICE provides for S-parameter extraction (N-port model generation) directly using .LIN command, resulting in more accurate and detailed measurements.
The support of IBIS models by HSPICE helps board level designers leverage their simulation resources more efficiently.
HSPICE RF Analyses Functions
HSPICE RF performs periodic steady-state (PSS) analysis, periodic noise and phasenoise analysis, and periodic AC analysis. With the addition of the harmonic balance engine, HSPICE RF now supports highcapacity non-linear simulation for high frequency designs. HSPICE RF is available as an add-on feature to HSPICE. It can perform the following analyses functions:- Oscillator Analysis
- Steady State Analysis
- Advanced Linear/Noise Analysis
- Periodic AC Analysis
Encryption
HSPICE offers an encryption feature which enables users to distribute their HSPICE custom models, parameters, and circuits without revealing sensitive information. Recipients of encrypted HSPICE libraries can run simulations with the encrypted libraries but they cannot print encrypted parameters, encrypted circuit netlists or internal node voltages.The encrypted library user sees devices and circuits as black boxes, which only provide terminal functions. This enables users to keep their propriety information confidential while enabling 3rd parties to perform their simulations without any change to their flow.
VCO waveforms and spectra from HSPICE RF simulation.
HSPICE can now perform RF simulation.
Design Optimization
Sophisticated analyses such as HSPICE Monte Carlo, worst-case corners, and circuit optimization allow a user to optimize a circuit that satisfies the design constraints across various processes, voltages and temperatures. HSPICE design optimization features include:- Corner case analysis: HSPICE can easily explore process corners and operating conditions for a design in order to analyze its yield, power, and performance.
- Circuit optimization: HSPICE supports multi-parameter optimizations spanning AC, DC, and transient analyses.
- Yield prediction: HSPICE Monte Carlo accurately predicts parametric yield over device and component statistical process variations.
Options
The following features are available as addon options for HSPICE:- High-performance multi-threaded option for multiple CPU’s
- File encryption option
- C++ programming interface (CMI) for integrating proprietary models
Data formats and interfaces
- SPICE, .LIB (with L/W binning)
- IBIS 3.2 format
- W-element RLGC matrix files
- S-parameter model file formats:
TouchStone and CITI
Integration
HSPICE fits readily into virtually any integrated circuit design environment. Netlist generation, simulation control, viewing of simulation results, cross-probing and backannotation of simulation results are supported with most EDA tool flows. The flows supported by HSPICE include:- Design environments:
- Synopsys’ Cosmos™ custom/mixed signal environment
- Cadence® Analog Design Environment
- Graphical analysis:
- AvanWaves™ intuitive point-and-click user interface and built-in mathematical functions.
- CosmosScope™ intuitive point-and click viewer that provides superior post-processing, measurement, and analysis capabilities.
- Parasitic information:
- Star-RCXT™ and other industry standard extraction tools
Platforms
HSPICE is available electronically or on CD-ROM, and fully supports the following platforms:- Solaris 2.7 or later
- HPUX 10 and 11
- IBM AIX 5.1 or later
- Linux Redhat 7.2
- Windows NT, 2000, XP or later
For HSPICE sales inquiries, please send e-mail to: hspice_sales@synopsys.com.
For more information about Synopsys products, support services or training, visit us on the web at www.synopsys.com, contact your local sales representative or call 650.584.5000.
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