Start Your Engines: The Blog-o-Meter Check - Lap 2

Cadence^® Spectre^® AMS Designer is a high-performance mixed-signal simulation system. The ability to use multiple engines and drive from a variety of platforms enables you to "rev up" your mixed-signal design verification and take the checkered flag in the race to the market. The Start Your Engines! blog series will provide you with tips and insights to help you tune up your simulation performance and accelerate down the road to productivity.

It's time for a blog-o-meter check! 

The progress report for the “Start Your Engines” blog series says "Good going!".

Going through this blog is highly recommended if you happen to be a new subscriber or have recently noticed a blog posted in this series.

Here's the list of the latest five informative blogs posted since the last blog-o-meter check:

• Start Your Engines: Seamlessly Reusing Advanced Digital Testbenches in AMS UNL
  Gives an overview of the Virtuoso Advanced Testbench reuse flow, using which the complex stimulus and monitoring capabilities of a SystemVerilog UVM testbench can be reused in the AMS Unified Netlister flow.
• Start Your Engines: Pointers to Speed Up a Slow Mixed-Signal Simulation
  Reviews the factors that can hamper the mixed-signal simulation performance and provides tips to speed up a slow simulation.
• Start Your Engines: A GUI to Define HDL Packages for the AMS Designer and SystemVerilog Netlister Flows Conveniently
  Covers information on how you can set up HDL packages in Virtuoso for use in AMS Designer and SystemVerilog.
• Start Your Engines: Speed Up Your Analog Mixed-Signal Verification with Spectre X Simulator
  Explains how to use AMS Designer with the Spectre X simulator to speed up a mixed-signal verification.
• Start Your Engines: Two Critical Components of Low-Power Mixed-Signal Simulation in AMS Designer
  Explains the two critical components, power-aware connect modules and mixed-signal power network, for the low power mixed-signal simulations.

Are you subscribed to this blog series yet? If not, I'd recommend that you subscribe to get notifications on the publishing of new blogs in this series. There are many more interesting reads lined-up to be published.

We will be posting the “blog-o-meter reading” at regular intervals to ensure that you don’t miss anything.

Jommy Thomas

Related Resources

• One-Stop Knowledge Resource for Mixed-Signal Verification
• Spectre AMS Designer Product Page

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About Start Your Engines

The Start Your Engines! series brings you blog posts from several analog/mixed-signal subject matter experts on a variety of topics, such as introduction to the new features in Spectre AMS Designer, tips for enhanced understanding of existing features, and much more. To receive notifications about new blogs in this series, click Subscribe and submit your email ID in the Subscriptions box.