E8880A SPICE Netlist Translator

Product Highlights

Netlist Translator/Importer

• Provides access to Spectre® and SPICE netlists in the schematic.
  
• Imports netlists from: Cadence Spectre®; Berkeley SPICE 2G6, 3C, 3E; PSpice; HSPICE.
  
• Allows existing netlists to be analyzed with a full range of RF circuit simulators.
  

Netlist Exporter

• Extracts a netlist from an ADS Schematic.
• Supports Dracula and Assura from Cadence Design Systems and Calibre from Mentor Graphics.
• Can be configured to output netlists in different SPICE formats.

Product Description

Netlist Translator/Importer

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E8880A Netlist Translator allows your existing Spectre®, PSpice, HSPICE, and Berkeley SPICE designs to be translated into an Advanced Design System (ADS) subnetwork for analysis.

Once a design has been translated into an ADS subnetwork using the Netlist translator, it can be analyzed with the full range of ADS high frequency circuit simulators (Convolution, S-parameter, Harmonic Balance, and Circuit Envelope).

This technology provides more analysis capability and generates answers to existing design problems than cannot be obtained from SPICE alone. The translator allows you to fully analyze design issues such as ACPR, mixer noise figure and phase-locked loop transients.

Netlist Exporter

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E8880A SPICE Netlist Export provides a link between ADS and IC Layout Verification Tools by extracting a Spice netlist from a ADS schematic for Layout Versus Schematic (LVS) checking. Enabling tighter integration of ADS RFIC schematic entry and simulation environment with a number of third-party layout/verification tools.

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The configurable netlist exporter works with ADS 2001 and subsequent releases. The exporter is available at no additional charge to owners of E8880A SPICE Netlist Translator with a current support contract.

Recent Product Enhancements

Recent product enhancements include the following:

• Translate Cadence Spectre® equations into ADS
• Translate model files separately from circuit files
• Translate Cadence Spectre® statistical analysis (i.e. Monte Carlo) into ADS
• Translate Cadence Spectre® self referencing subcircuit parameters into ADS
• Translate new components: BSIM4, Mextram and HICUM
• Improved handling of Library Statements
• Enhanced usability with new translation options dialog box

Product Downloads

Supported customers can download the software from the Agilent EEsof EDA Knowledge Center. Click on the following link:

• Agilent EEsof EDA Knowledge Center

How To Buy

To request immediate sales assistance - for help choosing the best system; for product configuration and integration details; to request telephone assistance or an on-site demo of the software; or to request a price quotation - click on the following link:

• Agilent EEsof EDA Sales Assistance

Configuration Details

Requires the Design Environment module (E8900).

User's Manuals

• Advanced Design System 2005A: Netlist Translator for SPICE and Spectre
  
• Advanced Design System 2005A: Netlist Exporter
  

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