Open Automation Framework for Complex Parametric Electrical Simulations

Abstract

The need to achieve statistically relevant results in electrical simulations requires a large number of iterations under different operating conditions. Moreover, the nature of parametric simulations makes the collection and filtering of the results non-trivial. To tackle these issues, scripts are normally used to control all the parameters. Still, this approach is usually ad-hoc and platform dependent, making the whole procedure hardly reusable, scalable and versatile. We propose a generic, opensource framework to generate complex stimuli and parameters for electrical simulations, together with a programmable Spiceand Verilog-A-based module capable of observing and logging internal states of the circuit to facilitate further result analysis.