Analog Simulation & Analog Circuit Simulation

HyperLynx Analog is a board-level simulation analysis and verification environment that is integrated into Mentor Graphics® DxDesigner™board-design environment.

HyperLynx Analog provides a truly scalable solution for analog circuit simulation, allowing the designer to satisfy their requirements by tailoring the solution through a choice of simulation options. This scalability, coupled with the ability to use a common schematic editor for simulation and PCB entry, significantly shortens the overall development cycle.

Technical Overview

HyperLynx Analog extends DxDesigner to add mixed-signal and analog circuit design simulation to the Expedition Enterprise and PADS PCB design flows. This enables a smooth design process from schematic capture through set-up, simulation and analysis, back-annotation, to layout.

Benefits

  • Scaleable simulation solution to meet different simulation needs
  • Shortens the development cycle by providing a common schematic editor for simulation and PCB entry
  • Ensures design quality and improves manufacturability through circuit simulation and statistical analysis
  • Helps engineers keep up with component changes and new device inclusions by enabling continuous circuit evaluation
  • Easy to learn and use, even for the casual user

Return on Investment

  • Rapid ability to determine proper tolerances prior to layout reduces design marginality and product returns
  • The ability to carry out ‘what-if’ analyses eliminates costly prototypes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and reducing waste.
  • Easy to learn. Data-centric toolbar, built-in productivity tools, and intuitive GUI guide engineers through the simulation process, ultimately reducing users’ learning curves and accelerating time to productivity

Features and Benefits

General Analog Simulation Features

  • Support for industry-standard languages
  • Access to advanced simulation capabilities such as noise and stress analysis
  • Project browser allows easy access and editing of testbench simulations, including setup, models, files, and results
  • Includes proven models, with access to 30,000+ models in external vendor libraries
  • Automatic symbol generation allows easy ‘what-if’ model testing prior to library addition
  • Able to import and convert existing PSpice libraries
  • Syntax-sensitive text editor for easy model editing
  • Basic DC, frequency, and time-domain analysis
  • Flexible viewing of single or multiple waveforms
  • Advanced parametric sweeps and Monte Carlo analysis
  • Drag-and-drop symbol creation
  • Documentation aides for output graphs and plots
  • Comprehensive and interactive waveform post-processing functions

Shorten Time-to-Market

  • Find functional design errors before they lengthen your design cycle
  • Leverage the highest performance functional analysis engines available to drive your product to market fast

Reduce Product Costs

  • Analyze your design across your component suppliers tolerances to improve manufacturing yield and product margins
  • Move design validation out of the late cycle prototype phase into the inexpensive design creation space

Reduce Risk

  • Eliminate design synchronization errors between PCB Functional analysis and PCB layout with a common design database
  • Leverage advanced analysis capabilities to insure your design has been vetted in all operational domains
  • Leverage and use simulation models commonly available through the web (including existing PSPICE models)

Advanced Analog Simulation Capabilities

  • All analysis domains are delivered with our base level package including DC, AC, Transient, Parametric Sweeps, Monte Carlo, Worst Case and Sensitivity
  • Maintain a pure PCB Layout schematic by moving all Simulation Sources into a convenient spreadsheet format
  • Easily convert existing PSPICE and SPICE III libraries
  • Integrated and flexible design test bench management
  • State of the art waveform display and analysis
  • Drag-and-drop waveform plotting “any way you like” with multiple Y-Axis support and infinite waveform windows
  • Full Board Mixed-Signal (Analog + Digital) combining multiple simulation engines together with Industry standard languages
  • SPICE, VHDL, Verilog, Verilog-A, VHDL–AMS & Verilog AMS are all supported

Easy to Use

  • Intuitive user interface for easy management of sophisticated analog designs
  • Drag ‘n drop symbol generation automatically creates symbols from SPICE models
  • Simple & full features dialogs eliminate any need for SPICE syntax expertise
  • Project browser with simulation extension allows easy access and management of test benches
  • Common schematic editor for functional analysis and PCB layout
  • Syntax-sensitive text editor for easy SPICE netlist and model viewing/editing
  • Drag and Drop waveform plotting and analysis

Related Products

  • DxDesigner

    DxDesigner provides a sophisticated yet scalable design definition environment that integrates with Expedition Enterprise and PADS layout tools across multiple computing platforms.

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