SPICE Simulator Tackles Mixed-System Designs

Dec. 17, 2008
Intusoft announced the release of its ICAP/4 8.x.11 Build 3435 SPICE-simulation tool suite for analog, mixed-signal and mixed-system design. ICAP/4 8.x.11 Build 3435 is a fully integrated design simulation tool suite consisting of design entry and ...
Intusoft announced the release of its ICAP/4 8.x.11 Build 3435 SPICE-simulation tool suite for analog, mixed-signal and mixed-system design. ICAP/4 8.x.11 Build 3435 is a fully integrated design simulation tool suite consisting of design entry and library management tools, analog and mixed-signal simulation, full-featured design debug and verification capability, and fault synthesis. Developed for Windows Vista and 64-b operating systems, this 11th-generation software includes the popular DSP Designer tool for modeling digital-signal-processing (DSP) circuits and subsystems. The software includes a firmware plug-in that enables signals from Series 1000 and 2000 oscilloscopes from Tektronix to be viewed directly in ICAP/4's "IntuScope" waveform viewing tool.

New capabilities include direct differential cross-probing from any device or two nodes on a schematic, more room when viewing a significant amount of signals, new signal identification for updating existing waveform views, several unique Monte Carlo waveform scripts for automatically displaying a multitude of electrical properties from a waveform family, selectable display of operating point and noise analysis numerical values, and exportation of linearized waveform data to a text file. The ICAP/4 software also has 145 new device models in its simulation library, for a total that now exceeds 23,800 parts.

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.

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