Last month we saw Infinisim announce a new SPICE simulator and this month it’s a company called Gemini.
What’s new with Gemini is that they exploit multi-thread and multi-core to a greater extent. For understandable reasons the old-guard SPICE tools (HSPICE, Spectre, Eldo) have been slow to re-architect to fully exploit multi-thread and multi-core. It’s plain [...]

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Last month Infinisim announced its SPICE circuit simulator called RASER.
They don’t want to label it a Fast SPICE tool because that implies less accuracy, so I’m going to place it in the Analog Fast SPICE tool category competing with Berkeley Design Automation.
Who wants this kind of tool?
Mostly IC circuit designers doing analog and mixed-signal designs [...]

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I had the pleasure of attending a webinar yesterday about what’s new in HSPICE presented by Synopsys.
Previous webinars I’ve attended required that I use a separate phone line to get audio, then use my web browser to view the presentation. With this webinar I just had to use my web browser to hear the presenter [...]

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