Anyone can suggest some analog/mixed-signal simulator for analog IC Design?

Mubarak Ali @Mubarak_Ali6

12 December 2017 14 7K Report

Could you suggest some(preferably open source) analog/mixed-signal simulators for analog IC design for my research.

Sadeque Reza Khan Popular answer

You can use Electric VLSI Design System. The download files and tutorials are available in this link:

http://cmosedu.com/cmos1/electric/electric.htm

There is another software called Magic. You can try that as well.

Abdelhalim Zekry

Dear Mubarak,

Please follow the given link to be informed about the open source mixed circuit design. You can use winspice as low cost circuit simulator and use LASI as lay out tool. You need a technology file to make a successful design. and you can use the so called universal lambda based lay lout rules. With these tools we could design and simulate analog and mixed ic circuits: http://www.edaboard.com/thread174733.html

best wishes

Jagdeep Kaur Sahani

hspice .. is available for windows and linux platform

Bal Chand Nagar

You can also download student version of Cadence OrCAd simulator.

Sadeque Reza Khan

You can use Electric VLSI Design System. The download files and tutorials are available in this link:

http://cmosedu.com/cmos1/electric/electric.htm

There is another software called Magic. You can try that as well.

Richard Izak

The well known EDA simulation tools based on Spice are

from Cadence (Spectre), Mentor (Eldo), Synopsys. All of them have also the complete flow from Schematic down to Mask Layout and their verification (Checks like DRC, ERC, LVS and parasitic extraction for postlayout simulation!).

There is a little less expensive solution from Tanner/Mentor (TSpice) including the whole flow from Schematic Entry to Sim, to Layout & Layout Verification.

But there is a lot of academic, thus freeware EDA tools!

Frrom Spain:

http://www.cnm.es/~pserra/apdk/

and their Spice Opus:

http://fides.fe.uni-lj.si/spice/

or X-Circuit http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/

NG Spice for Lnx & Win:

http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/download.html

Start reading also Wikipedia pages, there is a lot of introduction to the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_EDA_software

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Here is a good overview of free EDA tools for transistor mask layout:

https://mixedsignal.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/top-ten-full-custom-layout-tools/

http://www.vlsitechnology.org/html/ic_software.html

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This should help you as an introduction

Best regards

Richard

Seelam Vasavi Sai Viswanada Prabhu Deva Kumar

Cadence is the one of best stimulator for IC Design

Sina Mahdavi

Dear Mubarak,

It is well-known that, you can use the SPICE ( HSPICE) model of the simulator for simulating of the your design, simply. Also, for drawing Layout of the your structure you can use the Cadence software.

Meanwhile, if you want to simulate your design just behavioral model, in that time the Simsides model simulator is good candidate for simulating, because in the mentioned simulator model, you can apply the effect of the parasitic resistors and capacitors, the effect of the noise and temperatures, and other parasitic parameters too, generally. Due to that these type simulation results are near to actual way, mostly.