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Re: [Help-gnucap] Books on Circuit Simulation Software Design
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Al Davis |
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Re: [Help-gnucap] Books on Circuit Simulation Software Design |
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Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:20:46 -0600 |
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It isn't off topic for the developer list. If anyone else has
references, please share them here.
On Sunday 01 June 2003 09:18 am, Nuno Miguel Fernandes Sucena
Almeida wrote:
> this is a bit off topic but here it goes. Which books do you
> recomend for learning circuit simulation software design?
> From the following or any other, which one would you buy? I
> went to the local library and brought home:
>
> - Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design (1983
> Edition) Jiri Vlach ; Kishore Singhal
> (there's a new 1993 Edition, but I don't have access to it)
This is the one I used when I was getting started. (1983
edition). Good, a bit heavy for a beginner.
> - Circuit Simulation Methods and Algorithms (1994 Edition)
> Jan Ogrodzki
> CRC Press
Lots of detail. Traditional methods.
> - Analog Methods for Computer-Aided Circuit Analysis and
> Diagnosis (1988 Edition)
> edited by Takao Ozawa
I am not familiar with this one.
> - Computer-aided design of microwave circuits (1981 edition)
> K. C. Gupta, Ramesh Garg, Rakesh Chadha
> Artech House
I am not familiar with this one.
> I've searched amazon and found others:
>
> - Electronic Circuit and System Simulation Methods
> (1999 Reprint Edition)
> Pillage, Rohrer
Good coverage of alternative methods, particularly AWE and
similar methods. (Pillage == Pileggi) Some coverage of "fast"
methods.
> - Computer-Aided Analysis of Nonlinear Microwave Circuits
> (1998) Paulo J. C. Rodrigues
> Artech House
I am not familiar with this one.
> My main interest is simulation of radio-frequency circuits,
> from MHz to the low GHz range, using transient analysis.
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Focus on harmonic balance method, derived from Ken Kundert's
Ph.D. dissertation, which is also good reading.
Kundert, White, Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - "Steady State Methods
for Simulating Analog and Microwave Circuits", Kluwer
0-7923-9069-1
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Traditional, easier reading than others:
McCalla - "Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Circuit Simulation",
Kluwer 0-89838-248-3
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Good understanding of the algorithms, leaning toward user
perspective:
Kundert - "Designer's Guide to Spice & Spectre", Kluwer
0-7923-9571-9
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Focus on relaxation methods, "mixed-mode". (Gnucap does
mixed-mode, but not by relaxation).
White, Sangiovanni-Vincentelli - "Relaxation Techniques for the
Simulation of VLSI Circuits", 1987, Kluwer 0-89838-186-X
Saleh, Newton - "Mixed-Mode Simulation", 1990, Kluwer
0-7923-9107-1 (obsolete)
Saleh, Jou, Newton - "Mixed-Mode Simulation and Analog
Multilevel Simulation, 1994, Kluwer 0-7923-9473-9
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I don't have the details handy, but ....
Larry Nagle's Ph.D. thesis (Berkeley, 1970's) is an excellent
introduction.
Karem Sakallah's Ph.D. thesis (Carnegie Mellon 1984??) is an
excellent introduction to hierarchical mixed-mode simulation.
My Ph.D. thesis (U. of Rochester 1992) covers the "implicit"
(automatic selection" mixed mode algorithms.
> By the way, is there any plan on adding a lossy transmission
> line model to gnucap ?
Maybe. Do you want to help?
> And about the server support or any
> other easier way of controlling gnucap from a (to be done)
> graphical frontend?
There are people working on it.