Evaluating mixed-signal simulators

Author

Overhauser, David ; Saleh, Resve

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Duke Univ., Durham, NC, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

1-4 May 1995

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

120

Abstract

This paper describes various issues related to modes of failure in mixed-signal simulation and identifies how various benchmark circuits can be used to evaluate the implementation of various simulators. This paper serves as a companion paper to the CICC-94 paper which presented a set of mixed-mode benchmark circuits. Important aspects of the analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog interfaces are discussed along with mixed-signal circuit partitioning, analog-digital time synchronization, and digital modeling. This is followed by a survey of implementation techniques in various commercial and university mixed-signal simulators

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; circuit analysis computing; digital simulation; digital-analogue conversion; failure analysis; integrated circuit modelling; logic partitioning; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; synchronisation; analog-digital time synchronization; analog-to-digital interfaces; benchmark circuits; circuit partitioning; digital modeling; digital-to-analog interfaces; failure modes; mixed-signal simulators; Analog circuits; Application specific integrated circuits; Circuit simulation; Coupling circuits; Discrete event simulation; Logic circuits; Logic gates; Switches; Switching circuits; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the IEEE 1995

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2584-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.1995.518148

Filename

518148