From: Mohan ([email protected])
Date: Mon Apr 09 2001 - 21:17:35 PDT
Hi
It depends on your needs......If you need to run small circuits, it is okay
to use the PC version. Otherwise, Unix is preferable anyday !! I have had
many instances of PC-version crashing when running long and accurate
simulations ( eg. PLL ). Version 2000.2 (?) has problems with the 'Update'
feature in PC. I cannot track a waveform while simulation is running. (
There could be some fixes for these ! ).
As regards the links to 3rd party tools : the links help you to invoke
Hspice simulator other than the default simulator. For example, if you are
using Cadence's Analog artist, you would be able to use Hspice as a
simulator instead of CDSpice or Spectre.. the link provides the license to
do so. You could then analyse the results in the 3rd party's waveform
viewer. Of course, you need to have Hspice binaries too....i am not aware of
any Cadence or Mentor tools on PC. Mentor's NT support is probably close to
what you would want on a PC.
Mohan Kumar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Davidson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:55 AM
Subject: [SI-LIST] : Hspice: Windows vs Unix
> We are looking at Star-Hspice from Avanti! as a signal integrity analysis
> tool to evaluate/analyze high speed interconnects. We have decided to
> purchase some licenses but now we have to decide to buy a Windows version
or
> a Unix (Solaris, I believe) version.
>
> According to Avanti!, Windows Hspice is a subset of Unix Hspice. The
> information I have is this:
>
> CMI is not supported on Windows. CMI is a development library allowing one
> to create MOSFET models in C. This will prevent us from using any vendor's
> MOSFET model that was generated with CMI, however, this may not be a
problem
> because most manufacturers use the BSIM3 model nowadays. Does anybody know
> if BSIM3 models are better/worse than models generated with CMI? Will I be
> limited in anyway by not having CMI?
>
> Avanti! says that some 3rd party output formats are only supported on
Unix,
> such as CadenceLink and MentorLink. Does anybody have any experiences they
> can describe using such links? What do these links allow you to do?
>
> Finally, has anybody used Hspice on both Windows and Unix platforms? Would
> you say that you prefer one platform over the other? Why?
>
> Any other comments would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!!
>
> Anthony Davidson
>
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