Global Patent Index - EP 1181654 A1

EP 1181654 A1 20020227 - CIRCUIT SIMULATOR

Title (en)

CIRCUIT SIMULATOR

Title (de)

SCHALTUNGSSIMULATOR

Title (fr)

SIMULATEUR DE CIRCUIT

Publication

EP 1181654 A1 20020227 (EN)

Application

EP 00923175 A 20000407

Priority

  • US 0009350 W 20000407
  • US 12838199 P 19990408

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO0062208A1] An electronic circuit simulator technique dramatically reduces barriers to simulation of complex analog circuits. The invention reduces simulation preparation time by permitting as killed user to formulate a simulation strategy that can combine a modeling strategy, a deck extraction strategy, and a comprehensive suite of pre-engineered simulation tests that fully characterize a system under test. This pre-engineered simulation strategy can be applied to a new system very quickly in an automated fashion by a circuit designer having much less simulation experience than that of the skilled user who formulated the simulation strategy. The invention reduces the CPU time required for each test by allowing a skilled user to encode a device modeling strategy and a deck extraction strategy that effectively minimize the CPU time required to achieve a given simulation objective. For a given simulation objective, as killed user chooses for each element implemented in a simulation a device model of minimum complexity that achieves a desired level of simulation accuracy and extracts a portion of the complete production schematic that achieves the desired level of simulation accuracy. The invention reduces dramatically the effort required of a user to compose a required number of inputs to run a specified number of simulation tests and reduces dramatically the amount of CPU time required to run them.

IPC 1-7

G06F 17/50

IPC 8 full level

G01R 31/28 (2006.01); G06F 11/26 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G06F 11/261 (2013.01); G06F 30/367 (2020.01)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 0062208A1

Citation (examination)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 0062208 A1 20001019; WO 0062208 B1 20010201; AU 4334200 A 20001114; EP 1181654 A1 20020227; JP 2003521756 A 20030715

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 0009350 W 20000407; AU 4334200 A 20000407; EP 00923175 A 20000407; JP 2000611207 A 20000407