Integrating multiple parallel simulation engines for mixed-technology parallel simulation

Abstract

The emergence of mixed-signal (analog and digital) integrated circuits motivates the need for CAD tools supporting mixed-signal design and analysis. Furthermore, the presence of a large body of existing models in existing modeling language and the need for modeling mixedsignal (analog and digital) circuits motivates the need for a single unified simulation framework into which different parallel simulation subsystems can be easily connected. In this paper, we have review the design of a light-weight simulation backplane for integrating simulators from different domains. Of particular focus for this paper is the integration of a parallel SPICE (analog circuit) simulator called Xyce Ì Å with a parallel VHDL (digital circuit) simulator called SAVANT.

Stochastic formulation of SPICE-type electronic circuit simulation with polynomial chaos

“…SPICE-type simulators are the most widely used tools for the emulation of the behavior of electronic circuitry [Nagel 1975]. The popularity of SPICE is largely based on the availability of comprehensive libraries of device models, the quality of the solution algorithms, and its compatibility with solutions of high-speed computation [Martin et al 2002]. In order to analyze the reliability of a circuit with a SPICE-type simulator, it is of interest to perform variability studies [Bierbaum et al 2002], which provide information on the tolerance of a circuit.…”

SystemC Test Case Generation with the Gazebo Simulator

“…There exist some interfaces to SystemC in the literature such as (Martin et al, 2002;Possadas et al, 2005;Bouchhima et al, 2006;Huang et al, 2008;Mueller-Gritschneder et al, 2013). These papers use SystemC as a primary basis and extend the functionality of it.…”

“…This work uses Matlab/Simulink as a continuous simulation for the environment, which communicates with the SystemC model. In the work found in (Martin et al, 2002), SystemC was connected with an analog circuit simulator like SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) and VHDL (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language (VH-SIC Hardware Description Language)). In (Mueller-Gritschneder et al, 2013) a platform for simulating an entire robot is modelled in SystemC.…”

On the simulation performance of contemporary AMS hardware description languages

“…In [1], the authors proposed a SystemC/Simulink cosimulation framework for embedded systems that relies on Simulink for the continuous simulation and SystemC for the discrete simulation based on one or more synchronization model. A single unified simulation framework for the simulation of AMS designs using two parallel stand alone simulators (Xyce for SPICE, SAVANT for VHDL) designed for high performance simulation in their respective solution spaces was described in [2]. Another mixed-domain simulation framework was proposed in [3] based on VHDL and ELDO.…”