Hspice tutorial university of california, berkeley. Hspice simulation and analysis manual, release u2003. You can also use the program remotely from home or the lab via telnet. In this tutorial, you will practice the steps necessary to perform simulation using. If you are just starting out, you might want to copy a demo file to your own directory and edit the netlist to create your own circuit. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use starhspice to develop, test, analyze, and.
Hspice can be found on all the unix machines in sweet hall. Awaves is a program that allows you to graphically plot the results of the analysis that hspice did. Synopsys technical publications 690 east middlefield road mountain view, ca 94043. For details about all commands and options, see the hspice reference manual. Other versions of hspice should not differ too much. For more specific details and examples refer to the relevant manual. Hspice elements and device models manual version x2005.
However, to view the graphical outputs, you will need to run an xserver e. I need to do the postprocess the data through an ocean script. No part of this manual may be copied or distributed without the prior written consent of avant. Simetrix is able to read pspice, hspice and native simetrix netlists, but in some. In this document only coaxial cables and twinlead cables are described. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Hspice basics an input netlist file must be created to begin the design entry and simulation process. This document and the software described herein is only provided under a written license agreement or a type of written nondisclosure agreement with avant. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide release u2003.
The starhspice optimizing analog circuit simulator is a industrialgrade circuit analysis product for the simulation of electrical circuits in steadystate, transient, and frequency domains. This manual is not a book about learning spice usage, however the novice. Hspice stimulus types there are two types of stimulus that we widely use in this class 1. Hspice applications manual electrical and computer engineering. Harmonic balance analysis now supports multithreading to deliver up to 4x speed up on 8 cores, enabling fast and accurate steady state analysis. Be sure that a complete set of parameters is entered in the correct sequence before running the simulation. And the unix cursor should change, for instance if your. However, it is not written that you must trust hspice and so the units can be manually assigned by. A good tutorial on spice simulation is available here. Stanford cnfet model hspice stanford nanoelectronics lab. The license agreement with synopsys permits licensee to make copies of the documentation for its internal use only. Hspice is fully integrated with the synopsys custom compiler simulation and analysis environment. If you have questions, read the section on workstation basics later in this handout.
A brief users guide to hspice national chiao tung university. This manual has been assembled from different sources. We also provide a lot of books, user manual, or guidebook that related to swift hspice quick reference guide computer engineering. Could someone help me in providing materialslinks for the same. The synopsys hspice special interest group sig is an active community for all hspice users and design engineers who want to stay connected with the latest developments in the field of circuit simulation. Dont worry if it takes a couple seconds for hspice to run, but as long as the command completes successfully youll know because it will say hspice job. Im well aware hspice is an expensive proprietary simulator, but i am able to get access to it, problem is id have to access it on a sever via ssh.
Resolved noise analysis using hspice tool simulation. Inside this manual this manual contains the chapters described below. Hi all, by simulating the first file here an inverter in hspice,i do not have any problem,but when i simulate the 2nd file,the avanwave tool prompt this. Harmonic balance analysis now supports multithreading to deliver up to. Spectre simulator reached a similar support level to that of eldo and hspice. You have to explicitly tell hspice to generate the extra. Hspice stimulus types university of southern california. Verilog training bangalore 3 hspice manual download 3 blastcreate hspice synopsys starhspice. On february 2, 2017, synopsys hosted an hspcie sig event in santa clara, ca. No data in design,select run hspice to create data file. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use star hspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs. Hspice is a smart program and will automatically assign ohms to resistors, farads to capacitors, and henries to inductors.
This manual describes how to use hspice to simulate and analyze your circuit designs. Hsice simulation guide penn state college of engineering. 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. I just tried to run a transfer function analysis in multisim in this manner i. In ade you can simulate using spectre or hspice and you can still plot the results. 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. Please consult your hspice manual for the mos level 3 parameters and how they are used in the equations to represent flicker and thermal noise. Hspice tutorial ac simulation we will construct and analyze a nmos commonsource amplifier as the example for ac analysis. Abdj, not sure why you posted this here, but it appears that you are using the mos level 3 model for the nmos and pmos devices.
This tutorial shows hspice simulation of a cmos inverter. I want to learn the spice netlist commands and simulation of devicescircuits using the same. The piecewise linear mode the following figure, shows the graph generated in response to the pwl piecewise linear. The procedure for opening an xwindow varies depending on the type of computer you are using. The manual has been expanded and includes one more example. Hspice features for running higherlevel simulations. This guide describes how to use hspice to simulate and analyze your circuit. Before you run your spice simulations in a new xterm or rxvt window, run the following unix command in your unix directory.
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. You can just ignore these and they will automatically be overwritten with each run through the compiler. For descriptions of the other manuals in the hspice documentation set, see the next section, the hspice. The manual is not as pretty either, but all the info you need is there regarding how to use, eg. So for reading hspice compatible libraries, you definitely have to unset the. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version z2007. Related documents the following documents pertain to.
The hspice rf manual supplements the user documentation set for hspice. Tes morrowind construction set guide free vechile repair manual ribbonwork the complete guide. How can i learn spice netlist commands in detail to. Hspice signal integrity user guide university of rochester. Chapter 11, using hspice with hspice rf describes how various analysis features differ in hspice rf as compared to standard hspice.
Getting started with hspice oregon state university. Introduction spice simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis is a widelyused circuit simulation program. Postprocessing nonpsf results formats through ocean. It also provides facilities to model numerous different physical layouts of the conductors forming the transmission lines. Introduction duke electrical and computer engineering. Where necessary, the hspice rf manual describes differences that might exist between hspice rf and hspice. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use starhspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs.
It was developed as public domain software at the university of california and versions 2g6 vanilla spice and 3. Full details are in the metasoftware hspice manual. Syntax notation the meaning of a parameter may depend on its location in the statement. These manuals are proprietary information from avant you can consult them for this lab but you cannot keep a copy and you cannot distribute copies avant.
Basic simulation and analysis information that is the property of synopsys, inc. Before running hspice, users should execute the command source usrclassee dot. The software and documentation are furnished under. This manual describes the additional features and capabilities of hspice rf. R ohm c farad l henry the scaling for the all units in hspice is done by. The star hspice optimizing analog circuit simulator is a industrialgrade circuit analysis product for the simulation of electrical circuits in steadystate, transient, and frequency domains. In this example, a transmission line is defined with a length of. Hspice provides facilities for modelling lossless ideal and lossy transmission lines. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version y2006. Frank sill department of electrical engineering, federal university of minas gerais, a antonio av. Both simulators share a common set of device models and simulation capabilities.
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