Thread: best spice simulator (linux-based)

hi fellow edaboarders,

i'm searching for the best spice simulator in linux.

criteria is: ease of use, speed, low system requirements

pls. give recommendations.

http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/#Spice

LTSpice is by far the best free simulator, and runs perfectly on Linux through Wine.

anything under ubuntu or fedora?

Hi,

Is LTSpice suitable to use for integrated circuit simulation like 0.35um spice model?

Thanks for reply inadvance !
sunjimmy

Originally Posted by sunjimmy

Hi,

Is LTSpice suitable to use for integrated circuit simulation like 0.35um spice model?

Thanks for reply inadvance !
sunjimmy

It can use this MOS models:


level model

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1 Shichman-Hodges



2 MOS2(see A. Vladimirescu and S. Liu, The Simulation of MOS Integrated Circuits Using SPICE2, ERL Memo No. M80/7, Electronics Research Laboratory University of California, Berkeley, October 1980)



3 MOS3, a semi-empirical model(see reference for level 2)


4 BSIM (see B. J. Sheu, D. L. Scharfetter, and P. K. Ko, SPICE2 Implementation of BSIM. ERL Memo No. ERL M85/42, Electronics Research Laboratory University of California, Berkeley, May 1985)



5 BSIM2 (see Min-Chie Jeng, Design and Modeling of Deep-Submicrometer MOSFETs ERL Memo Nos. ERL M90/90, Electronics Research Laboratory University of California, Berkeley, October 1990)



6 MOS6 (see T. Sakurai and A. R. Newton, A Simple MOSFET Model for Circuit Analysis and its application to CMOS gate delay analysis and series-connected MOSFET Structure, ERL Memo No. ERL M90/19, Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, March 1990)



8 BSIM3v3.3.0 from University of California, Berkeley as of July 29, 2005



9 BSIMSOI3.2 (Silicon on insulator) from the BSIM Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, February 2004.



12 EKV 2.6 based on code from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. See http://legwww.epfl.ch/ekv and "The EPFL-EKV MOSFET Model Equations for Simulation, Version 2.6", M. Bucher, C. Lallement, F. Theodoloz, C. Enz, F. Krummenacher, EPFL-DE-LEG, June 1997.



14 BSIM4.6.1 from the University of California, Berkeley BSIM Research Group, May 18, 2007.