Eldo Simulation

Duration: 3 Days
Course Part Number: 066495
Pricing: 1500 USD

Description

Education Services can help you acquire the skills needed to maximize your usage of Eldo® and realize its full impact on your analog/mixed signal verification process. You will become familiar with tuning your circuit to use the best suited algorithms and accuracy control options, perform measurements on various types of waveforms, choose the most appropriate statistical analysis, perform noise analysis, understand the concepts of optimization, simulate your design taking aging effects. The lecture modules will guide you through the various advanced concepts and tools associated with Eldo .

Detailed lab exercises help reinforce what is discussed during the lectures and provide you with extensive tool usage experience under the guidance of our industry expert instructors.

You will learn how to

• Setup, run simulation and interpret results in the EZwave Waveform Viewer
• Optimize DC convergence
• Tune simulation algorithms and accuracy options
• Use multiple device model libraries, including leading MOS, bipolar and MESFET transistor models as well as Verilog-A behavioral models.
• Control your simulation in many flexible ways
• Extract information from the simulation
• Choose the suitable noise analysis you need for your design
• Perform FFT and Pole Zero analysis
• Simulate in S domain
• Use the most appropriate statistical analysis
• Run Eldo optimizer
• Run DSPF netlist simulation
• Perform aging simulation through reliability analysis 

Hands-On Labs

Audience

This course is intended for analog, digital, and mixed-signal designers who want to discover the advantages of the Eldo simulator capabilities.

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with UNIX and Linux operating systems
• Practical experience with analog design and simulation
• Knowledge of principals of SPICE, Familiar with Spice syntax
  

Key Topics

Introduction to Eldo and its integration into an IC design flow

Overview of ELDO basics

• Running the eldo command
• What’s inside a .chi file
• Arguments of eldo command 

EZwave – Waveform viewer

• Basic EZwave features
• Toolbar, Mouse stroke
• Measurement tool
• Waveform Calculator

DC Operating Point

• Performing DC partitioning
• Establishing DC convergence
• Methods to optimize DC convergence 

Simulation algorithms and accuracy options

• Choosing the best suited algorithm to solve non-linear equations
• Effective use of integration algorithms
• Tuning accuracy options for effective speed/accuracy trade off 

Eldo device models

• Major transistor device models
• Working with model libraries
• Verilog A model instantiation
• Hspice conversion program
• Spectre conversion program 

Flexible control of simulation

• Initial condition to improve convergence
• Save/Restart commands
• Large circuit simulation
• Parametric analysis
• Multiple runs simulation
• Miscellaneous commands
• TCL for post processing 

Extract and Safe Operating Area

• Define simple extract to get some component data
• Extract in DC domain
• Extract in transient domain
• Re-running an extract without performing a new simulation
• Check when a component is used outside its limits 

Noise analyses

• Models and sources
• AC NOISE simulation, specific measurements and noise results analysis
• SST NOISE simulation, specific measurements and noise results analysis
• Transient NOISE simulation, specific measurements and noise results analysis

Pole-zero and FFT analysis

• Pole-zero analysis
• FFT parameters
• Running FFT analysis
• Power Spectral Density

Scattering parameters

• S-Parameters extraction
• Specific S-parameter measurements
• Reusing a S-parameter file
• Mixed-mode S-Parameters simulation

Design Sensitivity and statistics

• Sensitivity Analysis
• Monte-Carlo Analysis
• Worst-Case Analysis
• DC mismatch Analysis
• Screening Analysis 

Optimizer

• Running a simple optimization
• Analyzing the optimization results
• Defining design parameters
• Defining objectives
• Defining an optimization 

Post-layout simulation with DSPF

• Post layout simulation
• Ignoring some parasitics elements
• Simulation speed improvement
• Simplifying a complex net
• Small components removal 

Reliability analysis

• Purpose of the reliability algorithm for aging simulation
• Advanced reliability analysis setup
• Reliability model compilation
• Performing a reliability analysis (Step 3)
• Reliability results analysis