If you intend to use hspice for integrated circuits simulation you will need to make use of many of these. This project is dedicated to the optimization of any electrical and electronic circuits and components using evolutionary and heuristic algorithms incorporated with spice simulators such as hspice, ngspice, etc. Hspice doesnt have any builtin waveform viewer, so we will have to use the cosmosscope software. This software and documentation are owned by synopsys, inc. Audience this manual is for circuit designers and engineers who use synopsys circuit simulation tools, including the hspice and starsim product families. Filter by license to discover only free or open source alternatives.
Downloadable tools university of california, berkeley. These graphs are very useful in engineering and project design management. Dcoperating point, dc sweep, ac sweep bode plotting, transient,sensitivity and fourier analysis. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version y2006. Hspice simulatorthe basic analyses that can be carried out using hspice are.
Synopsys tutorial part 2 custom designer schematic. And the unix cursor should change, for instance if your. Nelson electrical and computer engineering department california state polytechnic university, pomona winter 20 this tutorial provides a basic introduction to the use of hspice and cosmosscope for students in the electrical and computer engineering department at cal poly pomona. Hspice is one of spice variations commercialized by a. This tutorial is designed to introduce you to the tools we will use in class. The avanwaves user guide describes the avanwaves tool that you can use to display waveforms generated when you simulated your circuit designs in hspice or starsimxt. The advantage of using hspice on eniac is that you can run it from your room through a modem connection or over resnet. For descriptions of the other manuals in the hspice documentation set, see the next section, the hspice. Default command shell set to tcsh already was because i asked esite to make all course project accounts use tcsh add a. Ers manual available from metasoftware directly at 8003465953 note only use this number to.
Hypermodel, i, inspecs, insync, leda, mast, meta, metasoftware, modelaccess. Hspice and cosmosscope tutorial hspice is used for circuit simulation and cosmosscope is used to view output. This software and documentation contain confidential and proprietary information that is the property of synopsys, inc. Synopsys tutorial part 1 introduction to synopsys custom. Awaves is a program that allows you to graphically plot the results of the hspice analysis. Let us understand the elements of the code of hspice. In this tutorial, we will again use the hspice on engineering workstation linux computers. This tutorial will guide you through the windows version of the hspice. Meta, meta software, modeltools, nanosim, op envera. This tutorials gives the guidance to simulate simple design of basic gate on hspic this tutorial is created for texas tech university.
Note that acdc sweep and transientanalyses must be preceded by the command. Hspice generally has better convergence than spice3 and, because it is a commercial product from meta software, is better supported. Advanced design system 2002 netlist translator for spice. Other versions of hspice should not differ too much. These courses use the ncsu freepdk45 library for a 45nm technology. Csim, design compiler, designpower, designware, epic, formality, hsim, hspice, hypermodel, inphase, insync. The configuration file is located in a directory having the same name as your current design with a. Alternatives to hspice for windows, mac, linux, software as a service saas, web and more. With a complete array of specialized analyses, hspice is the clear choice for both traditional rfic applications and highfrequency phase noise and jitter analysis. For more information on how to use hspice, see the hspice tips and documentation links on the ece 546 course webpage. It was developed as public domain software at the university of california and versions 2g6 vanilla spice and 3. Electrical and computer engineering introduction spice simulation program with integrated circuits emphasis developed by university of california at berkeley in 1970s.
Chapter 11, using hspice with hspice rf describes how various analysis features differ in hspice rf as compared to standard hspice. A good way to learn hspice and metawaves is to simulate example files provided by meta software. Introduction the objective of this tutorial is to provide an introduction to the hspice simulation environment. A good tutorial on spice simulation is available here. Synopsys tutorial part 2 custom designer schematic capture. You have to explicitly tell hspice to generate the extra. In order to use hspice from home in windowsmaclinux, you will need to use ssh. For further assistance the students are encouraged to contact the lab tutors during the lab sessions or via email. Use comments profusely to make your code more understandable.
Hspice tutorial university of california, berkeley. Originally developed at berkeley in the late 60s and early 70s, spice has evolved into one of the tools of choice for circuit simulation. An online tutorial is provided for using the openwindows system on the suns. The linux version work on command line and should not me much different. It was developed by the group of john ousterhout at the university of california at berkeley. Software 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. Electrical and computer engineering outline introduction installation prepare a circuit for simulation simulation using pspice a typical example. This tutorial shows hspice simulation of a cmos inverter. Hspice applications manual department of electrical and. A complete list of all spice offerings and software downloads for a wide range of platforms.
This software and documentation contain confidential and proprietary information. This software and documentation contain confidential and proprietary. Aug 07, 2019 software 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. Magic magic is an interactive layout editor supporting online design rule checking and circuit extraction. Traditional freelib encryption in an hspice netlist. Hspice tutorial ac simulation we will construct and analyze a nmos commonsource amplifier as the example for ac analysis. Introduction spice simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis is a widelyused circuit simulation program. This list contains a total of 5 apps similar to hspice.
Awaves is a program that allows you to graphically plot the results of the analysis that hspice did. Hspice tutorial prepared by dongwan ha oct 21, 2008 1 introduction spice is a general purpose analog electronic circuit simulator. Minimum sized inverter with a capacitive loading title line is always the first line of the input file. It is worthwhile to take a look at some simple simulation using hspice. This tutorial will introduce you to the cadence environment. Once your simulation runs without errors, we can view the waveform that was generated. The first commercial version of spice is ispice, an interactive version on a timeshare service, national css. Circuit simulation tutorial introduction this tutorial is an introduction to schematic capture and circuit simulation for engn1600 using cadence virtuoso. Although spice comes in many flavors you think thats a bad pun, keep reading, we strongly. Leda, mast, meta, metasoftware, modeltools, nanosim, openvera, pathmill, photolynx, physical compiler. Brief introduction to hspice simulation wojciech giziewicz 1 introduction this document is based on one written by ihsan djomehri, spring 1999. The statement stripline circuit is a comment in hspice. Hspice run files and configuration files saved during a avanwaves session are used as input to avanwaves.
Hspice is one of spice variations commercialized by a company. Well see how to use synopsys hspice simulation, synopys hercules design rule check drc and layout vs schematic tools lvs. Hspice is just a program that takes in a netlist a simple text. This is probably the most powerful version of spice available. Hspice can quickly and accurately simulate large nonlinear, highfrequency designs. With over 25 years of successful design tapeouts, hspice is the industrys most trusted and comprehensive circuit simulator.
Spice reads in a list of circuit nodes and the elements between. Hspice is the industrys gold standard for accurate circuit simulation and offers foundrycertified mos device models with stateoftheart simulation and analysis algorithms. It will also show you how to use the simulator hspice in standalone mode to make certain parts of your design exploration easier ece 546students. Metaencrypt and converter utilities, clientserver operation. It is highly optimised and will take advantage of specialised floating point hardware in sparc1, sparc2 and sparc10 processors. 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 software and documentation are furnished under a license. It has the advantage of being freely available, to support a wide variety of models, and to run on all unix platforms. Analysis and methods hspice version h92 meta software on. Jan 10, 20 hspice simulatorthe basic analyses that can be carried out using hspice are.
Please consult the metasoftware manual available from the dsl, room 100m. For more detailed information, consult the hspice us. No part of the software and documentation may be reproduced, transmitted, or translated, in any form or by. Inside this manual this manual contains the chapters described below. The software and documentation may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement. Edu cadence tutorial 7 generating hspice netlist from schematic ee577b fall 98 in this tutorial, i will show how to generate hspice netlist from schematic. Before you run your spice simulations in a new xterm or rxvt window, run the following unix command in your unix directory. Hspice generally has better convergence than spice3 and, because it is a commercial product from metasoftware, is better supported.
Introduction duke electrical and computer engineering. We provide optimer, which is a user graphical interface for circuit design and optimization. It is a powerful program that is used in ic and boardlevel design to check the integrity of circuit designs and to predict circuit behavior. Hspice quick tutorial please do not distribute and duplicate any cad related documentations without written permission from the cad tool companies. Hspice is one of spice variations commercialized by a company meta software from engineerin vlsi at islamic azad university. In order to simulate systems, it is necessary to have a complete description of the system and all of its components. This is available at aston on the sun workstations. Although there were many free and powerful spice variations, hspice became a standard of accurate circuit simulator. However, you will need to explicitly command hspice to generate the extra. The softwar e and documentation are furnished under a license agreement and. Hspice elements and device models manual version x2005. Hspice is one of spice variations commercialized by a company meta software merged with avant. It also allows hierarchical node naming, circuit optimization, input, output, and behavioral algebraics for parameterized cells, and interactive waveform viewing with metawaves. Tutorial setup tutorial 1,2,4 are necessary to start this tutorial.
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