This fun, informative guide, created by the editors of the old farmers almanac, will greatly increase your culinary confidence about spices and herbs. With over 25 years of successful design tapeouts, hspice is the industrys most trusted and comprehensive circuit simulator. Elements and device models describes standard models you can use when simulating your circuit designs in hspice, including passive devices, diodes, jfet and mesfet devices, and bjt devices. You can use four types of models and a wide range of parameters to model standard junction diodes. Spice simulation program with integrated circuits emphasis developed by university of california at berkeley in 1970s. Hspice is just a program that takes in a netlist a simple text.
The ee3 hspice quick reference sheet the ee3 hspice tutorial a brief introduction to hspice and unix running vnc quick reference hspice and mwaves manual. A simulation program that models the behavior of a circuit containing analog or mixed ad devices, used to test and refine your design before implementing on hardware pcb. This file is 10mb and and over 1700 pages, so please do not print it. A hspice simulation and analysis user guide, x2005. This manual generally follows the conventions used in the microsoft windows users guide. Switchercad iii is a new spice that was developed for modeling board level switching regulator systems. If you have questions, read the section on workstation basics later in this handout. The linked sites, articles and presented information are provided as a useful insight to help you decide on the type of engineering expert you might need. For beginners, chapters under tutorials provide a step by step guide to using hspice.
Synopsys hspice is compatible with most spice variations and has the following additional features. Circuits may contain resistors, capacitors, inductors, mutual inductors, independent voltage and current sources, four types of dependent sources, lossless and lossy transmission lines two separate implementations, switches, uniform distributed rc lines, and. However, you will need to explicitly command hspice to generate the extra. This manual describes the individual hspice commands you can use to simulate. If you do not have a synopsys user name and password, follow the instructions to register with solvnet. Youll find the answers to these and other such questions right here.
Awaves is a program that allows you to graphically plot the results of the hspice analysis. Hspice takes a spice file as input and produces output describing the requested simulation of the circuit. Hspice is just a program that takes in a netlist a simple text file, containing. Most schematic editors and netlisters support the spice or hspice hierarchical. It can also produce output files to be used by the awaves post processor. Starhspice is compatible with most spice variations, and has the. Spice with integrated logic primitives that perform the switch mode control provides a better answer. This manual describes the starhspice circuit and device simulation. Hspice elements and device models manual version x2005. 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 spice 3. Ltspice iv getting started guideltspice iv getting started guide.
Related documents the following documents pertain to. Hspice tutorial university of california, berkeley. This release incorporates new features not available in spice 3c or 3d, as well as several performance improvements. Hspice is an analog circuit simulator similar to berkeleys spice3 capable of. The development of spice and its algorithms is ongoing at berkeley, and. Hspice generally has better convergence than spice 3 and, because it is a commercial. Mentor graphics reserves the right to make changes in specifications and other information contained in this publication without prior notice, and the.
Hspice is an analog circuit simulator similar to berkeleys spice 3 capable of performing transient, steady state, and frequency domain analyses. Input file hspice input is composed of mainly four part. Hspice supports source value sweep, referring to the source name spice style. Before running hspice, users should execute the command source usrclassee dot. It can give fast simulation times, yield detailed waveforms, and still allows the flexibility for arbitrary circuit modifications. The procedure for opening an xwindow varies depending on the type of computer you are using. This document is for information and instruction purposes. All of the features described here are believed to be fully functional.
Spice simulation program for integrated circuits emphasis is a valuable tool. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use star hspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs. For more sophisticated analyses consult the hspice users manual. Included in this manual are detailed command descriptions, startup option definitions, and a pspice your microsoft windows users guide. If you need help using solvnet, click help on the solvnet menu bar. This manual describes the starhspice circuit and device simulation software. This manual is not a book about learning spice usage, however the novice user may.
Hspice is the industrys gold standard for accurate circuit simulation and offers foundrycertified mos device models with stateoftheart simulation and analysis algorithms. Concise spice ihsan djomehri, spring 1999 1 introduction to circuit simulation developed at berkeley in the 70s, spice has evolved into the tool of choice for circuit level simulation. Since this line is echoed back in the outputfile for the page header, it is a very good place to describe what this simulation is for. Star hspice is compatible with most spice variations, and has the.
This handout seeks to provide a concise, fairly comprehensive introduction to hspice version 98. This manual is intended to provide a complete description of ngspices functionality, features, commands, and procedures. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version x2005. Title line is always the first line of the input file. Information on this material, check out the cheat sheet as well as these online manuals. This manual contains the reference material needed when working with special circuit analyses in pspice. Commands and control options provides reference information for hspice and hspice rf commands and options. Follow these instructions to run remote desktop connection. Hspice quick reference guide this quick reference guide is a condensed version of the hspice simulation and analysis user guide. Run the hspice compiler to generate text output files that contain the.
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