Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use starhspice to develop, test, analyze, and. Originally developed at berkeley in the late 60s and early 70s, spice has evolved into one of the tools of choice for circuit simulation. Hspice command reference electrical and computer engineering. What the difference between them or i really dont understand what is synpsys thinking. Starhspice features introducing starhspice geometric lossy coupled transmission lines for. Enter the name of your star hspice input netlist file. For more specific details and examples refer to that manual. Star hspice features introducing star hspice geometric lossy coupled transmission lines for pcb, multichip, package. Starhspice quick reference guide 11 1chapter 1 introduction this quick reference guide is a condensed version of the starhspice manual. Lecture 4 spice modeling of mosfets in the following. Hspice manual bipolar junction transistor electrical. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version x2005. For descriptions of the other manuals in the hspice documentation set, see the next section, the hspice documentation set. Option opt1 opt2 opt3 opt1 opt2 specify an input control option.
This manual is intended to provide a complete description of ngspices functionality, features, commands, and procedures. General options altccn enables reading the input netlist once for multiple. Introducing star hspice star hspice features star hspice manual, release 1998. Enter the name of your starhspice input netlist file. The intent of this guide is to have a handy quick reference. Specifying simulation input and controls chapter 4. A complete user manual in pdf format can be obtained below. Spice reads in a list of circuit nodes and the elements between. In windows explorer, doubleclick the cdrom drive icon.
Hspice quick reference guide this quick reference guide is a condensed version of the hspice simulation and analysis user guide. Inside this manual this manual contains the chapters described below. Use the following procedure to start starhspice in the prompting mode. Passive devices diodes jfet and mesfet devices bjt devices inside this manual this manual contains the chapters described below. Introducing starhspice starhspice features starhspice manual, release 1998. Starrcxt, starsimxt, starrc, system compiler, system designer, taurus. Star hspice quick reference guide 11 1chapter 1 introduction this quick reference guide is a condensed version of the star hspice manual. Cover sheets 22 kb table of contents 48 kb index 175.
Star hspice 2 bipolar junction transistor capacitor. The starhspice optimizing analog circuit simulator is a industrialgrade circuit analysis product for the simulation of electrical circuits in steadystate, transient, and frequency domains. Why sometimes called hspice and sometimes star hspice. Option macmod enables hspice mosfet to access the subcircuit definition when there is no matching model reference or enables an hspice xelement to access the model reference when there is no matching. Related documents the following documents pertain to. Approximately 100 mb of free disk space for a full installation of starhspice, avanwaves and metaencrypt installing with w indows explorer to install starhspice using windows explorer. No part of this manual may be copied or distributed without the prior written consent of avant. This is the default installation for synopsys documentation. This manual is not a book about learning spice usage, however the novice user may. Refer to the following document for further information on the hspice product. Syntax notation the meaning of a parameter may depend on its location in the statement. If its name contains version xxplus, it describes the actual code status, found at the date of issue in the git source code management scm tool.
The configuration file is located in a directory having the same name as your current design with a. Starhspice modeling technologies simulation at the integrated circuit level and at the system level requires careful planning of the organization and interaction between transistor models and subcircuits. Be sure that a complete set of parameters is entered in the correct sequence before. Starhspice and avanwaves installation guide release 2001. The first bullet is the method recommended by avant. To use this feature, the hspice documentation files, the index directory, and the index. This document and the software described herein is only provided under a written license agreement or a type of written nondisclosure agreement with avant. Starsimxt, system compiler, taurus, tsuprem4, vc s. The examples in this chapter show you how to run starhspice to perform. Figure figure 61 illustrates the simulation flow for starhspice. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use star hspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs. You can use four types of models and a wide range of parameters to model standard junction diodes. At the end, there should be a line that says one of the.
Use the following procedure to start star hspice in the prompting mode. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use starhspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs. Why sometimes called hspice and sometimes starhspice. More spice models hspice level 28, bsim2, bim3 hspice level is bsim hspice level 28 a very popular modification of bsim, but can only be used in hspice bsim2 hspice level 39 typical model today for those not using hspice bsim3 version 3.
Awaves is a program that allows you to graphically plot the results of the hspice analysis. Lecture 4 spice modeling of mosfets in the following, hspice. Running starhspice run starhspice in any of the following ways. Starmtb, starhspice, avanlink for cadence composer, avanlink for mentor design architect, avanwaves. How to use this manual the manual is a work in progress. The linked sites, articles and presented information are provided as a useful insight to help you decide on the type of engineering expert you might need. Interconnect variation in starrcxt with the hspice flow.
This release incorporates new features not available in spice 3c or 3d, as well as several performance improvements. Insert the starhspice cdrom into the cdrom drive of the computer. Stardc, starhspice, starhspicelink, starms, starmtb, starpower, starrail, starrc. This manual describes the starhspice circuit and device simulation software. What the difference between them or i really dont understand. Sciroccoi, starrcxt, starsimxt, taurus, tsuprem4, vcs express, vcsi. This guide describes how to use hspice to simulate and analyze your circuit. All of the features described here are believed to be fully functional. If you do not include a file name extension, star hspice looks for the file name with an. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version y2006.
Starmtb, starhspice, avanlink for cadence composer, avanlink for mentor design architect, avanwaves, master toolbox, personal toolbox, metamos, device model builder dmb, atem, and avanlabs are. For more specific details and examples refer to the relevant manual. However, you will need to explicitly command hspice to generate the extra. Brief introduction to hspice simulation wojciech giziewicz 1 introduction this document is based on one written by ihsan djomehri, spring 1999.
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