Sigrity Broadband SPICE

To reduce simulation issues and accelerate your transient simulation runtimes, Cadence^® Sigrity™ Broadband SPICE™ technology accurately and quickly converts N-port passive-network parameters such as scattering, impedance, or admittance (S, Z, or Y) into SPICE-equivalent circuits that can be used in time-domain simulations. You can feed it data from Touchstone files and also from the more-compact Cadence Broadband Network Parameter (BNP) format.

Sigrity Broadband SPICE technology gives you a passive compact circuit model while maintaining accuracy for efficient transient simulations in HSPICE, or other SPICE-compatible circuit simulators, including the Sigrity SPEED2000™ time-domain simulator. The resulting compact black-box models created by Broadband SPICE give you excellent convergence.

Features

• Generates models for DC through broadband frequencies
• Extracts network models with multiple resonance points
• Models a broad range of structures including IC packages, RF components, PCBs, cables, and connectors
• Assesses real-world situations such as parallel traces traversing a split plane, spiral inductors, and return path discontinuities
• Generates a very high order, but numerically stable, model for complex network responses
• Enables analysis of PI/SI issues such as what-if optimization of power delivery system performance and simultaneous switching output simulation
• Rigorous passivity enforcement assured by automated techniques along with interactive user review and control
• Automatic determination of topology and circuit order based on network parameter curve complexity
• Flexible to support flows where the target simulator may vary and where models are provided to others