AUSPICE-an expert system to assist simulations with SPICE

Author

Gubian, Paolo ; Zanella, Marina

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Automazione Ind., Univ. degli Studi di Brescia, Italy

fYear

1988

fDate

7-9 June 1988

Firstpage

889

Abstract

The authors discuss an expert system, called AUSPICE, which gives assistance to the user of the SPICE circuit simulator. AUSPICE has the knowledge of an expert in both circuit and numerical problems applied to electrical simulation, and is capable of finding a way out of nonconvergence cases as well as some circuit specification mistakes. An expert system running both on a personal computer and on a DEC VAX was developed, using a goal-driven shell. Another expert system running on a VAX and using a production system is now being tested. The ultimate goal of the project is to integrate AUSPICE into a SPICE environment. Knowledge representation schemes, inference mechanisms, and significant operating examples are presented.<>

Keywords

circuit analysis computing; expert systems; AUSPICE; DEC VAX; SPICE circuit simulator; electrical simulation; examples; expert system; goal-driven shell; inference mechanisms; knowledge representation schemes; nonconvergence solving; numerical problems; personal computer; production system; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Computational modeling; Expert systems; Inference mechanisms; Knowledge representation; Microcomputers; Production systems; SPICE; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1988., IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Espoo, Finland

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1988.15066

Filename

15066