Analog Simulation and Verification
A range of analog simulation & verification tools are available, including:
Analog Designer
Analog Designer is an analog simulation environment for Design Gateway. It supports numerous Spice2G6 and other simulators and allows for the control and use of test waveforms from HP VEE and LabView test equipment. Analog Designer improves design flexibility through various utilities, references, RLC constants and polarity-based pin placements etc. Standard features include a pin table resource editor, automated model search and updating, net list creation, a simulation manager, and operating point voltage display dialog for Star-HSpice and PSpice simulation models. The device model library includes more than 4,000 models for discrete devices and ICs.
CR-5000/Saber Integrated Platform
The design of mechatronic systems requires both integrating multiple technologies in a single system, combining software control with mechatronic functions, while constantly verifying design performance at board, subsystem, and system levels.
Enabling concurrent design and verification at the board level, the growing complexity of PCBs for mechatronic systems, merging both analog and digital functional blocks and using programmable devices, requires sophisticated simulation and analysis capabilities to ensure accurate and reliable performance prior to production. In particular this includes co-simulation of components modeled as diverse as in MAST, SPICE, VHDL, Verilog or C-code.
Zuken and Synopsys have integrated CR-5000 and Saber into a common PCB design and verification platform. Synopsys Saber delivers the simulation, modeling and analysis capabilities needed for the concurrent PCB design and verification for mechatronic systems. A full system level design and verification environment featuring the combined strength of CR-5000 and Saber enables a smooth flow from single-entry design definition, via native simulation and interactive analysis, to back-annotation of results.
Circuit Adviser
Circuit Adviser uses component and circuit data to perform enhanced electrical rule checks on the schematic. By setting the voltage as a design value for the net, electrical characteristics can also be checked. Schematic errors are quickly identified and no special knowledge is needed to use Circuit Adviser. Rule checks can be configured to support a combination of different technologies and applications. In addition to the special "check identifier" property, target elements can be identified by symbol name or function type. Working with Analog Designer, operating points defined in SPICE models can be used in the checks and voltage levels can be determined directly with net voltage properties handled separately for each target market. Large-scale circuit checks run concurrently during the design process.