Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Concept Engineering | Subject: SpiceVision Pro
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 3 March 2003
Software makes more
sense of Spice models
SpiceVision Pro is an extended version of the interactive visualisation tool for chip designers who need to debug and analyse Spice circuits and models
As well handling an unlimited number of components, SpiceVision Pro comes with 64bit support, a new high-speed database that accommodates larger designs and fast access to pre-compiled designs, and a TCL-based UserWare application programming interface (API) that enables users to customise the product.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 March 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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For example, customers can write their own electrical rule checkers (ERCs) and statistical reports, and create their own report files based on analysis tasks that they have defined via UserWare.
SpiceVision has been widely adopted by designers of complex digital, mixed signal and analogue circuits prevalent in memory semiconductors, automotive, telecom, consumer and medical electronics.
"Many of our customers are increasing the size and complexity of their designs and need higher capacity, speed and performance", said Gerhard Angst, President and CEO of Concept Engineering.
"SpiceVision Pro offers this, along with the flexibility for customers to create their own UserWare functions, and a new GUI that will significantly enhance productivity".
SpiceVision Pro fits into any electronic design automation (EDA) environment where Spice design files are used to verify circuit behaviour.
It produces clean, easy-to-read transistor-level schematics from complex Spice descriptions, helps engineers visualise the parasitic effects within complex deep-submicron designs, and reduces the design and debug time for engineers who work at the Spice netlist level.
Using Concept Engineering's transistor-level schematic engine, SpiceVision Pro generates schematics from pure Spice connectivity information.
SpiceVision Pro is available now for Solaris 32 and 64bit workstations from Sun, as well as 32bit HPUX, Linux and Windows workstations.
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