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News Release from: Sandwork Design | Subject: SpiceCheck
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 April 2007
Verifying and debugging mixed-signal
designs
Tool in analysis verification and debugging (AVAD) suite for analogue and mixed-signal designs, performs transistor-level design rule screening from static connectivity to post-layout signal integrity
SpiceCheck, the latest tool in Sandwork's analysis verification and debugging (AVAD) suite for analogue and mixed-signal designers, performs transistor-level design rule screening from static connectivity to post-layout signal integrity issues and allows integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on chip (SoCs) designers to perform comprehensive checks on traditionally difficult-to-find design problems At Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2007 exhibition, Sandwork will demonstrate SpiceCheck's latest functions, including support for Mentor Graphics' Eldo and Cadence Spectre netlist formats
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Netlist-driven rule checker is fully programmable
SpiceCheck performs netlist debugging from syntax verification to circuit-aware static checking and allows SoC designers to perform a global check on traditionally difficult-to-find design issues.
SpiceCheck does netlist debugging and verification
SpiceCheck is an analysis, verification, and debugging (AVAD) suite for analogue and mixed-signal designers.
SpiceCheck is the only fully Tcl programmable netlist-driven static rule checker that is also capable of dynamic waveform probing.
Today's low-power chips commonly involve multiple power domains that present tremendous verification challenges for designers who must adhere to complex design specifications.
SpiceCheck helps designers to ensure that electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is properly installed; that low-voltage devices are not present in high-voltage rails; that no leakage devices appear at multi-rail interface blocks; and, at the physical level, that no signal integrity problem remains as a result of high parasitic resistance and capacitance.
"Sandwork now has reached 25 European customers", says Jack Yao, President of Sandwork.
"It was the feedback from these European accounts that prompted us to focus in the design check area and to continue enhancing the product to meet the growing challenges in the mixed-signal design community".
For additional information, or a demonstration, please visit Sandwork in Booth R46 at the DATE conference in Nice, France, from 17th to 19th April, 2007.
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