SPICE

Siemens EDA has launched a second version of its Symphony simulation environment designed to support quicker debug cycles.

A Japanese component supplier is making it easier for its customers to choose the right parts for their designs by offering a powerful analog and mixed-signal (AMS) simulation environment through its website.

Mentor adds Analog FastSPICE eXTreme innovations for designs facing increasing parasitic complexity and contact resistance challenges at cutting edge nodes.

Startup launches an analog-circuit migration and optimization tool that uses less simulation time than traditional approaches the company claims.

But project lead Chenming Hu, 'finFET's father', has also highlighted important changes in the funding landscape for university research.

The need for virtual prototyping at the PCB-design has led to changes in the way PSpice is being used – with much greater emphasis on cosimulation.

The latest update to the CustomSim FastSpice tool from Synopsys provides more consistent speedups from multicore workstations and adds support for BCD processes and real-number modeling.

Spice regressions, library characterisation and yield analysis are all being promoted as suitable for running on the cloud

National Instruments has developed a kernel for Spice analog simulations that can be downloaded for faster performance on the FPGAs inside CompactRIO hardware.

Cadence has expanded the reach of its parallelized fastSpice engine and Spectre XPS tool to support general-purpose analog and mixed-signal designs.