Spectre Circuit Simulator
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Spectre is a SPICE
-class circuit simulator. It provides the basic SPICE analyses and component models. It also supports the Verilog-A
modeling language. Spectre comes in enhanced versions that also support RF simulation (SpectreRF
) and mixed-signal simulation (AMS Designer).
Spectre is currently a leading circuit simulator, competing with HSPICE and several others
Spectre was developed at Cadence Design Systems
by Ken Kundert
and Jacob White
.
SPICE
SPICE is a general-purpose, open source analog electronic circuit simulator.It is a powerful program that is used in integrated circuit and board-level design to check the integrity of circuit designs and to predict circuit behavior.- Introduction :Unlike board-level designs composed of discrete...
-class circuit simulator. It provides the basic SPICE analyses and component models. It also supports the Verilog-A
Verilog-A
Verilog-A is an industry standard modeling language for analog circuits. It is the continuous-time subset of Verilog-AMS.Verilog-A was created out of a need to standardize the Spectre behavioral language in face of competition from VHDL , which was absorbing analog capability from other languages...
modeling language. Spectre comes in enhanced versions that also support RF simulation (SpectreRF
SpectreRF
SpectreRF is an option to the Spectre Circuit Simulator from Cadence Design Systems. It adds a series of analyses that are particularly useful for RF circuits to the basic capabilities of Spectre. SpectreRF was first released in 1996 and was notable for three reasons...
) and mixed-signal simulation (AMS Designer).
Spectre is currently a leading circuit simulator, competing with HSPICE and several others
Spectre was developed at Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems
Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation software and engineering services company, founded in 1988 by the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD, Inc...
by Ken Kundert
Ken Kundert
Kenneth S. Kundert is an engineer that is notable for his work in the area of Electronic Design Automation . He studied electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley under professors Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and Robert Meyer and received his doctorate in 1989. During this...
and Jacob White
Jacob K. White
Jacob K. White is the Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He researches fast numerical algorithms for simulation, particularly the simulation of circuits...
.