Introduction to HSPICE
Introduction to HSPICE Introduction to HSPICE
• Sources:Components & SourcesVoltage sourceHead charactersDevices representedV (DC=)+ (AC=),Ex. Vgs g s DC=2V+ AC=1V,180Current sourceI (DC=)+ (AC=),Ex. I1 in gnd AC=1A,0*Transient Analysis source:PU, SIN, EXP, PWL, SFFM, AMV SIN(+ ,,, )Ex. Vgs g s DC=2V+ AC=1V,180 SIN(0V,1mV,1MHz,0ns)EE2270 Microelectronic Circuits LaboratoryEFGHIVVCVSCCCSVCCSCCVSCurrent SourceVoltage Sourcem9763518 Cho, Wei-Han
Components & Sources• Input line format:• Upper and lower case are ignored, exceptin quoted filenames.CodeMeaning1t 1E+12 10 121g 1E+09 10 9• Names:– Names must begin with an alphabetic character.• Delimiters:– Tab, blank, comma, equal sign (=), andparentheses“( )”.• Nodes:1x/1meg 1E+6 106 – Leading zeros are ignored in node numbers.1k 1E+3 10 3 – Trailing alphabetic characters are ignored in1m 1E-3 10 -3node numbers.1u 1E-6 10 -6 • Numbers:1n 1E-9 10 -9– Numbers can use exponential format or1p 1E-12 10 -12 engineering key letter format, but not both (1e-1f 1E-15 10 -1512 or 1p, but not 1e-6u).EE2270 Microelectronic Circuits Laboratorym9763518 Cho, Wei-Han
- Page 1 and 2: Introduction to HSPICE• What’s
- Page 3 and 4: Star-HSpice EnvironmentOrientation
- Page 5 and 6: AvanWaves Graph InterfaceClick!1.2.
- Page 7 and 8: Simulation Environment Setup• .TI
- Page 9 and 10: Simulation Environment Setup• .PA
- Page 11: • Components:Components & Sources
- Page 15 and 16: Performing Analysis• .OP: Analyze
- Page 17 and 18: Output Specify• .PRINT: Print vol
- Page 19 and 20: Output Specify• .PROBE: Probe dat
- Page 21 and 22: Output Specify• Output Variable S
- Page 23: Example• Example_DC1: I D -V DS c
Components & Sources• Input line format:• Upper and lower case are ignored, exceptin quoted filenames.CodeMeaning1t 1E+12 10 121g 1E+09 10 9• Names:– Names must begin with an alphabetic character.• Delimiters:– Tab, blank, comma, equal sign (=), andparentheses“( )”.• Nodes:1x/1meg 1E+6 106 – Leading zeros are ignored in node numbers.1k 1E+3 10 3 – Trailing alphabetic characters are ignored in1m 1E-3 10 -3node numbers.1u 1E-6 10 -6 • Numbers:1n 1E-9 10 -9– Numbers can use exponential format or1p 1E-12 10 -12 engineering key letter format, but not both (1e-1f 1E-15 10 -1512 or 1p, but not 1e-6u).EE2270 Microelectronic Circuits Labora<strong>to</strong>rym9763518 Cho, Wei-Han