Patent ID: 6832182
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method of simulating the electrical performance of an electronic circuit that includes one or more analog circuit devices and is represented by a netlist, the netlist specifying circuit components of which the electronic circuit is composed and their points of interconnection, comprising:formulating a simulation objective for simulating predetermined electrical performance parameters of the electronic circuit; executing in a manner consistent with the simulation objective a streamlined simulation of the electronic circuit by carrying out one or more of: performing a deck extraction process to form a test-type deck circuit, the deck extraction process including identifying and excluding from the test-type deck circuit a first set circuit components of the electronic circuit that are unessential to its operation in the streamlined simulation of the electronic circuit; performing a device modeling strategy to select, for each member of a second set of circuit components of the electronic circuit, a device model level representing a level of simulation complexity that is consistent with the simulation objective; or performing a predefined simulation test to the electronic circuit, the predefined simulation test including simulation test information encoded in a normalized format that uses at least one of generic node names, club names, generic signal names, or generic specification names to enable application to a unique electronic circuit a definition of the predefined simulation test in the normalized format.