Create a schematic view for testing, and initiate the circuit you want to test tutorial 1, section f. Hspice users manual and metawaves help and manual 7. In addition to simple arithmetic operations hspice also accepts the following from ee 371 at illinois institute of technology. With over 25 years of successful design tapeouts, hspice is the industrys most trusted and. These circuits can contain resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers, independent sources, dependent sources, switches, transmission. With a userdefined optimization program and a known circuit topology, starhspice automatically selects the design components and model parameters to meet dc, ac, and. A new approach for implementing p,q counters is introduced, using 1outofn code modules. The organization described below is typical, but not mandatory.
Hspice measuring a series of values in transient simulation. Hspice tutorial university of california, berkeley. This software and documentation contain confidential and proprietary information that is. Hspice output graph data transient analysis measurement results. Hspice generally has better convergence than spice3 and, because it is a commercial product from metasoftware, is better supported. Measure result, and writes failed in the output listing file. Spice simulated program with integrated circuit emphasis is a software package capable of modeling and simulating linear and digital circuits. Filter by license to discover only free or open source alternatives. Introduction spice simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis is a widelyused circuit simulation program.
Measure statement fails to execute, star hspice writes 0. I wrote a hspice code to simulate and plot the nmos iv curve. With a userdefined optimization program and a known circuit topology, starhspice automatically selects the design components and model. The software and documentation are furnished under a license agreement and may. A good way to learn hspice and metawaves is to simulate example files provided by meta software. If you intend to use hspice for integrated circuits simulation you will need to make use of many of these. To plot the appropriate data, open your hspice design and choose the analysis and nodes of interest from the results browser. Tips for using hspice university of california, berkeley. Title 1st line, mandatory global control instructions global options, parameters analysis specification. Measure statement to modify information and define the results of successive simulations.
Inside this manual this manual contains the chapters described below. Electronic circuit optimization this project is dedicated to the optimization of any electrical and electronic circuits and compon. Tanner tspice simulation fast, accurate, foundryproven simulation for demanding analogmixedsignal designs the tanner tspice simulator, part of the tanner tool suite, integrates easily with other design tools in the flow and. Star hspice optimization is the result of more than ten years of research in both the optimizing algorithms and user interface. With over 25 years of successful design tapeouts, hspice is the industrys most trusted and comprehensive circuit simulator. Jan 25, 2010 to measure power dissipation characteristics. Behavioral voltage source see voltage and current controlled elements in the hspice simulation and analysis user guide. Use this command to define a stack of dielectric or metal layers. Many studies have chosen to only use snps that have an information measure above some value. Optimization, the automatic generation of model parameters and component values from a given set of electrical specifications or measured data, is available in starhspice. Working on hspice first time so please bear with me. Add a measure statement to your spice netlist to measure average powermeasure tran avgpwr avg power from1ns to20ns. The correlative data is between an outcome y and a measure x. Leda, mast, meta, metasoftware, modeltools, nanosim, openvera, pathmill, photolynx.
With a userdefined optimization program and a known circuit topology, star hspice automatically selects the design components and model parameters to meet dc, ac, and. Hspice simulation and analysis manual, release u2003. Chapter 2, commands in hspice netlists contains an alphabetical listing of all commands you can use in an hspice netlist. Analysis and methods hspice version h92 metasoftware on. Print, etc stimuli independent current and voltage sources. To measure max power measure tran peakpwr max power from1ns to100ns. Constantcurrent threshold voltage extraction in hspice for nanoscale cmos analog design alvin loke 1, zhiyuan wu 2, reza moallemi 3, dru cabler 1, chad lackey 1, tin tin wee 1, and bruce doyle 1. Use the measfail option to write out results to the. Alternatives to hspice for windows, mac, linux, software as a service saas, web and more. Thus, if you are only interested in the dc voltages in hspice, you should specify the. Analysis and methods hspice version h92 meta software on. It was developed as public domain software at the university of california and versions 2g6 vanilla spice and 3.
Add several different size output load capacitances. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version x2005. This software and documentation contain confidential and proprietary information that is the property of. Hspice is the industrys gold standard for accurate circuit simulation and offers foundrycertified mos device models with stateoftheart simulation and analysis algorithms. This list contains a total of 5 apps similar to hspice.
The hspice piecewise linear function is a collection of user defined pulses and steps. Hspice command reference department of electrical and. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version y2006. Chapter 11 optimizing performance optimization, the automatic generation of model parameters and component values from a given set of electrical specifications or measured data, is available in starhspice. Could anyone suggest a free software for meta analysis. Although there were many free and powerful spice variations, hspice became a standard of accurate circuit simulator. Hspice stimulus types there are two types of stimulus that we widely use in this class 1.
The popularity of the spice circuit simulator has translated into various offerings, suited for different compute platforms. Make schematic and symbol for your circuit please refer to tutorial 1 section cd 2. The ostensible advantage of this is that the results will reside with the rest of the measurements. Chapter description chapter 1, command categories lists all commands you can use in hspice, arranged by task. Hspice is just a program that takes in a netlist a simple text.
Ideal opamp see ideal opamp in the hspice simulation and analysis user guide. To measure max powermeasure tran peakpwr max power from1ns to100ns. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version z2007. This software and documentation contain confidential. Constantcurrent threshold voltage extraction in hspice for. Hspice doesnt have any builtin waveform viewer, so we will have to use the cosmosscope software. I know to to implement and gate, i need to to connect output of nand gate to the input of inverter.
The hspice default search order for the g file is as follows. In addition, when moving between differing voltages or currents, the function will always proceed linearly. Power measurement in hspice electrical engineering and. Depending on the value of capop, different capacitor models are used to model the mos gate capacitance, that is, the gatetodrain capacitance, 27 sosfet x 28 bsim derivative. This software and documentation contain confidential and proprietary information that is the property of synopsys, inc.
For more information on how to use hspice, see the hspice tips and documentation links on the ece 546 course webpage. Hspice is one of spice variations commercialized by a company meta software merged with avant. Measure statement prints userdefined electrical specifications of a circuit and is used extensively in optimization. It has the advantage of being freely available, to support a wide variety of models, and to run on all unix platforms. Hspice stimulus types university of southern california. Hypermodel, i, inspecs, insync, leda, mast, meta, metasoftware, modelaccess, modelexpress, modeltools. Hspice elements and device models manual version x2005. I was using command to measure phase margin in hspice. Chapter 3, options in hspice netlists describes the simulation options you can set.
This software and documentation contain confidential and proprietary. All plateaus and rise and fall times are also user definable. Hspice generally has better convergence than spice3 and, because it is a commercial product from meta software, is better supported. On using 1outofn codes for p,q counter implementations.
For instance, if we want to measure the peak gain of. Downloadable tools university of california, berkeley. The organization of a hspice input file is relatively free. Audience this manual is for circuit designers and engineers who use synopsys circuit simulation tools, including the hspice and starsim product families. For descriptions of the other manuals in the hspice documentation set, see the next section, the hspice documentation set. Once your simulation runs without errors, we can view the waveform that was generated. Ideal transformer see ideal transformer in the hspice simulation and analysis user guide. The optimizing function is integrated into the core of star hspice, resulting in optimum efficiency. These variables also permit you to use behavioral circuit analysis, modeling, and simulation techniques. Add a measure statement to your spice netlist to measure average power measure tran avgpwr avg power from1ns to20ns. In addition to simple arithmetic operations hspice also.
Please consult the metasoftware manual available from the dsl, room 100m. Optimization, the automatic generation of model parameters and component values from a given set of electrical specifications or measured data, is available in star hspice. Constantcurrent threshold voltage extraction in hspice for nanoscale cmos analog design alvin loke 1, zhiyuan wu 2, reza moallemi 3, dru cabler 1, chad lackey 1, tin tin wee 1, and bruce doyle 1 1advanced micro devices, inc. Constantcurrent threshold voltage extraction in hspice. The piecewise linear mode the following figure, shows the graph generated in response to the pwl piecewise linear input stimulus applied between in and gnd.
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