It can take input circuit description files and produce output files describing the requested simulation. Dc statement this chapter describes how to use the. On sweet hall machines, you would be able to use the hspice from the command prompt. Hspice rf manual describes a special set of analysis and design. Hspice manual for the use of hspice syntax in the source file you could find some example source files in thisfile. Spice quick reference sheet the general anatomy of a.
Hspice tutorial university of california, berkeley. A complete user manual in pdf format can be obtained below. Frank sill department of electrical engineering, federal university of minas gerais, a a to i c l 6627 cep 31270av. Zr is the characteristic impedance matrix of the reference system. Hspice provides facilities for modelling lossless ideal and lossy transmission lines. Hspice reference manual department of computer engineering.
Understanding the dc sweep flow performing dc sweeps using other dc analysis statements. This manual generally follows the conventions used in the microsoft windows users guide. Hspice simulation and analysis user guide version x2005. I have learned details and quirks of hspice from documentation and thru interactions with my colleagues from work. Specifying simulation input and controls chapter 4. Related documents the following documents pertain to. Hspice command reference provides reference information for hspice commands. It can display the transient or ac simulation results stored in binary or text files easily and generate publication quality plots. This file is 10mb and and over 1700 pages, so please do not print it. For descriptions of the other manuals in the hspice documentation set, see the next section, the.
Full details are in the metasoftware hspice manual. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use star hspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs. First, data statements describe the components and the interconnections. See the custom compiler simulation and analysis environment user guide. It also provides facilities to model numerous different physical layouts of the conductors forming the transmission lines. However, hspice allows you to name nodes instead of numbering the nodes. Documentation on the web, which provides pdf documents and is available through. Here is a good overview, and a user manual of spice in general.
However, you will need to explicitly command hspice to generate the extra. Please do not print them out on ece printers since each of them is quite long. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use starhspice to develop, test, analyze, and modify circuit designs. Starhspice quick reference guide 11 1chapter 1 introduction this quick reference guide is a condensed version of the starhspice manual. The page numbers in the rest of this document refer to this manual. Awaves is a program that allows you to graphically plot the results of the hspice analysis. Lib in which case it will apply only to that file and any others that it calls. For beginners, the best way to learn hspice is to do a simple simulation. Tips for using hspice university of california, berkeley. Circuit simulation using hspice university of rochester. To use this feature, the hspice documentation files, the index directory, and the index. Overview of mosfet models mosfet output templates ideally, m1 one finger and m2 five fingers should have same values of channel current since their w and l values are same, but these values are different because for the fingered mosfets, the channel current, effective.
We do not provide such technical support for general circuit simulations that are not for the evaluation of ltc products. The inputs can be the same for both pspice and hspice. Simulation control options chapters in the hspice reference manual. Veriloga hdl is derived from the ieee 64 verilog hdl specification. Multiple analyses and plots in spice2 emulation mode under 3f2 and earlier. Hpspice elements and device models manual describes standard models you can use when simulating your circuit designs in hspice, manual hspice. With over 25 years of successful design tapeouts, hspice is the industrys most trusted and comprehensive circuit simulator. Spice quick reference sheet the general anatomy of a spice. Hspice is just a program that takes in a netlist a simple text. Hspice is the industrys gold standard for accurate circuit simulation and offers foundrycertified mos device models with stateoftheart simulation and analysis algorithms. Hspice command reference department of electrical and. This document is intended to cover the definition and semantics of veriloga hdl as proposed by open verilog. Then, control statements tell spice what type of analysis to perform on the circuit. You could find some example source files in this tutorial latter.
Inside this manual this manual contains the chapters described below. When a variable is included in italicized text, the variable is enclosed by angle brackets. In order to simulate systems, it is necessary to have a complete description of the system and all of its components. Included in this manual are detailed command descriptions, startup option definitions, and a pspice your microsoft windows users guide. This provides access to all the hspice manuals with the exception of the avanwaves user guide which is available in pdf format only. Hspice%20reference%20manual%20commands%20and%20control% 20options%2c%20version%20i20.
For more specific details and examples refer to that manual. Elements and device models describes standard models you can use when simulating your circuit designs in hspice, including passive devices, diodes, jfet and mesfet devices, and bjt devices. Chapter 11, using hspice with hspice rf describes how various analysis features differ in hspice rf as compared to standard hspice. Commands and control options provides reference information for hspice and hspice rf commands and options. This is the same example as the previous one but written for hspice. Passive devices diodes jfet and mesfet devices bjt devices inside this manual this manual contains the chapters described below. In this document only coaxial cables and twinlead cables are described. As a current student on this bumpy collegiate pathway, i stumbled upon course hero, where i can find study resources for nearly all my courses, get online help from tutors 247, and even share my old projects, papers, and lecture notes with other students. The intent of this guide is to have a handy quick reference.
Significant problems with ac sensitivities in 3f2 only have been fixed. To illustrate this we will call the input node input and output node output. A language declaration placed anywhere else in a file will be ignored. For more details on hspice input file format, please refer to the. Hspice is an analog circuit simulator similar to berkeleys spice3 capable of performing transient, steady. This manual contains the reference material needed when working with special circuit analyses in pspice. Audience this manual is intended for design engineers who use starhspice to develop, test, analyze, and.
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