Title :
A tool to design circuits with statistics
Author :
Vaz, Mário ; Natalizi, Rodrigo
Author_Institution :
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
fDate :
30 Sep-3 Oct 1998
Abstract :
CPSPICE is part of a set of tools intended to help electronic engineers to design, model and simulate complex systems and circuits, based on statistical methods, using the same software and methodology used by High Energy Physics-HEP-data analysis. It simulates electronic circuits by the Monte Carlo method, through several different processes running simultaneously SPICE in UNIX parallel computers or workstation farms under using Cooperative Processes Software-CPS. Data transfer between processes is done by RAM memory for a modified version of SPICE2G6, but can also be done through hard disk files if no source files are available for the simulator, and for bigger simulation output files. Simulation results are written as n-tuple in order to be examined by CERNLIB programs like HBOOK in batch mode or interactively by PAW-Physics Analysis Workstation program. The results can be visualized through histograms and graphics, and analyzed by statistical procedures available like filtering and fitting. Small HBOOK files can be stored on hard disk and larger ones on 8 mm video tapes
Keywords :
Monte Carlo methods; SPICE; circuit CAD; circuit simulation; parallel processing; CERNLIB programs; CPSPICE; HBOOK; Monte Carlo method; PAW program; UNIX parallel computers; cooperative processes software; electronic circuits; statistical methods; workstation farms; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Design engineering; Hard disks; Power engineering and energy; Software tools; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Circuit Design, 1998. Proceedings. XI Brazilian Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Rio de Janeiro
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8704-5
DOI :
10.1109/SBCCI.1998.715448