This tutorial shows hspice simulation of a cmos inverter. The star hspice optimizing analog circuit simulator is a industrialgrade circuit analysis product for the simulation of electrical circuits in steadystate, transient, and frequency domains. The manual is not as pretty either, but all the info you need is there regarding how to use, eg. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. We also provide a lot of books, user manual, or guidebook that related to swift hspice quick reference guide computer engineering. Hi all, by simulating the first file here an inverter in hspice,i do not have any problem,but when i simulate the 2nd file,the avanwave tool prompt this. For details about all commands and options, see the hspice reference manual. Synopsys technical publications 690 east middlefield road mountain view, ca 94043. The piecewise linear mode the following figure, shows the graph generated in response to the pwl piecewise linear. If you have questions, read the section on workstation basics later in this handout. Stanford cnfet model hspice stanford nanoelectronics lab.
On february 2, 2017, synopsys hosted an hspcie sig event in santa clara, ca. Hspice tutorial ac simulation we will construct and analyze a nmos commonsource amplifier as the example for ac analysis. R ohm c farad l henry the scaling for the all units in hspice is done by. The piecewise linear mode the following figure, shows the graph generated in response to the pwl piecewise linear input stimulus applied between in and gnd. Hspice stimulus types there are two types of stimulus that we widely use in this class 1. Nelson electrical and computer engineering department california state polytechnic university, pomona winter 20 this tutorial provides a basic introduction to the use of hspice and cosmosscope for students in the electrical and computer engineering department at cal poly pomona. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use star hspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs. You can also use the program remotely from home or the lab via telnet. How can i learn spice netlist commands in detail to.
A good tutorial on spice simulation is available here. Before you run your spice simulations in a new xterm or rxvt window, run the following unix command in your unix directory. Full details are in the metasoftware hspice manual. Hspice features for running higherlevel simulations. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use starhspice to develop, test, analyze, and. For descriptions of the other manuals in the hspice documentation set, see the next section, the hspice. Simetrix is able to read pspice, hspice and native simetrix netlists, but in some. It was developed as public domain software at the university of california and versions 2g6 vanilla spice and 3. Be sure that a complete set of parameters is entered in the correct sequence before running the simulation. Hspice is fully integrated with the synopsys custom compiler simulation and analysis environment.
Hspice simulation and analysis user guide release u2003. No data in design,select run hspice to create data file. Before running hspice, users should execute the command source usrclassee dot. Syntax notation the meaning of a parameter may depend on its location in the statement. For more specific details and examples refer to the relevant manual. Dont worry if it takes a couple seconds for hspice to run, but as long as the command completes successfully youll know because it will say hspice job.
These manuals are proprietary information from avant you can consult them for this lab but you cannot keep a copy and you cannot distribute copies avant. Basic simulation and analysis information that is the property of synopsys, inc. Hspice applications manual electrical and computer engineering. Hspice stimulus types university of southern california. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use starhspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs. Postprocessing nonpsf results formats through ocean. I need to do the postprocess the data through an ocean script.
Hspice is a smart program and will automatically assign ohms to resistors, farads to capacitors, and henries to inductors. Getting started with hspice oregon state university. You can just ignore these and they will automatically be overwritten with each run through the compiler. Related documents the following documents pertain to. In this example, a transmission line is defined with a length of. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version z2007. In ade you can simulate using spectre or hspice and you can still plot the results.
Hspice signal integrity user guide university of rochester. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Chapter 11, using hspice with hspice rf describes how various analysis features differ in hspice rf as compared to standard hspice. In this tutorial, we will again use the hspice on engineering workstation linux computers. This guide describes how to use hspice to simulate and analyze your circuit.
The procedure for opening an xwindow varies depending on the type of computer you are using. Abdj, not sure why you posted this here, but it appears that you are using the mos level 3 model for the nmos and pmos devices. In this tutorial, you will practice the steps necessary to perform simulation using. Hspice provides facilities for modelling lossless ideal and lossy transmission lines. Please consult your hspice manual for the mos level 3 parameters and how they are used in the equations to represent flicker and thermal noise. You have to explicitly tell hspice to generate the extra. Spectre simulator reached a similar support level to that of eldo and hspice. This manual describes how to use hspice to simulate and analyze your circuit designs. Other versions of hspice should not differ too much.
I just tried to run a transfer function analysis in multisim in this manner i. Resolved noise analysis using hspice tool simulation. I want to learn the spice netlist commands and simulation of devicescircuits using the same. This manual describes the additional features and capabilities of hspice rf. Im well aware hspice is an expensive proprietary simulator, but i am able to get access to it, problem is id have to access it on a sever via ssh.
Tes morrowind construction set guide free vechile repair manual ribbonwork the complete guide. A brief users guide to hspice national chiao tung university. So for reading hspice compatible libraries, you definitely have to unset the. Both simulators share a common set of device models and simulation capabilities. And the unix cursor should change, for instance if your. If you are just starting out, you might want to copy a demo file to your own directory and edit the netlist to create your own circuit. Awaves is a program that allows you to graphically plot the results of the analysis that hspice did. The hspice rf manual supplements the user documentation set for hspice. Where necessary, the hspice rf manual describes differences that might exist between hspice rf and hspice. Introduction spice simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis is a widelyused circuit simulation program. Frank sill department of electrical engineering, federal university of minas gerais, a antonio av. Harmonic balance analysis now supports multithreading to deliver up to. Introduction duke electrical and computer engineering. In this document only coaxial cables and twinlead cables are described.
Could someone help me in providing materialslinks for the same. The starhspice optimizing analog circuit simulator is a industrialgrade circuit analysis product for the simulation of electrical circuits in steadystate, transient, and frequency domains. Inside this manual this manual contains the chapters described below. It also provides facilities to model numerous different physical layouts of the conductors forming the transmission lines.
This document and the software described herein is only provided under a written license agreement or a type of written nondisclosure agreement with avant. Hspice can be found on all the unix machines in sweet hall. The manual has been expanded and includes one more example. Verilog training bangalore 3 hspice manual download 3 blastcreate hspice synopsys starhspice.
The license agreement with synopsys permits licensee to make copies of the documentation for its internal use only. Hspice tutorial university of california, berkeley. This manual is not a book about learning spice usage, however the novice. Hspice basics an input netlist file must be created to begin the design entry and simulation process. Hspice elements and device models manual version x2005. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version y2006. Hspice simulation and analysis manual, release u2003. No part of this manual may be copied or distributed without the prior written consent of avant. Harmonic balance analysis now supports multithreading to deliver up to 4x speed up on 8 cores, enabling fast and accurate steady state analysis. Hsice simulation guide penn state college of engineering. However, it is not written that you must trust hspice and so the units can be manually assigned by. This manual has been assembled from different sources.