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News Release from: Synopsys | Subject: NanoSim FastSpice simulator
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 January 2007
HVMOS device model verifies display
driver ICs
Novatek has successfully verified several designs using the Synopsys NanoSim FastSpice simulator with the newly available, built-in HSpice high-voltage MOS (HVMOS) device model.
Novatek, a global leader and provider of flat panel thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) driver ICs, has successfully verified several designs using the Synopsys NanoSim FastSpice simulator with the newly available, built-in HSpice high-voltage MOS (HVMOS) device model With the foundry-endorsed HVMOS model, the NanoSim simulator enabled Novatek design engineers to accurately predict circuit behaviour, thereby improving design yield while significantly reducing overdesign
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We constantly seek to improve our product quality and reduce cost", said Tommy Chen, Vice President of Engineering at Novatek.
"The Synopsys NanoSim simulator with HVMOS model provides us with an accurate and robust top-level circuit verification solution".
"The NanoSim simulator enabled us to achieve a 50% reduction in the required design margins with our last chip".
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"The NanoSim simulator is clearly superior to competitive offerings, and we intend to deploy it in our other product lines".
Synopsys' industry-leading, high-performance NanoSim simulator with the HVMOS model is a comprehensive solution for LCD driver verification.
This HVMOS model incorporates all of the critical physical effects of various high-voltage transistor technologies deployed in applications such as flat panel displays and automotive electronics.
Synopsys' unique HSpice model technology enables the NanoSim simulator to provide simulation results that correlate within a few percent of the actual silicon.
"The NanoSim simulator has long been accepted as the industry standard for simulating complex integrated circuit designs, and our innovative HVMOS modelling is addressing application-specific IC designs such as flat-panel LCDs", said George Zafiropoulos, Vice President of Marketing for Verification Products at Synopsys.
"NanoSim clearly helps leading-edge companies like Novatek to deliver more competitive products".
Synopsys offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of analogue and mixed-signal simulation solutions.
The Synopsys Discovery AMS mixed-signal verification solution is based on the leading golden HSpice simulator, NanoSim simulator, HSIM simulator, and VCS simulator.
The Discovery AMS platform provides a unique combination of accuracy, performance and capacity with the flexibility of simulating design abstractions in any combination of Verilog, Spice, Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS.
This comprehensive solution enables designers to achieve superior throughput and accuracy for the largest mixed-signal SoCs.
Synopsys' HVMOS device model is currently available in the HSpice and NanoSim simulators, as well as in the Aurora model parameter extraction tool.
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