hdmi
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I wonder if anyone has any experience using any kind of so called analog synthesis tool and what is your opinion on the usefullness of these tools from scale 1 to 10, with 10 being extremely useful.
What I mean is tools like neockt from Cadence, or Circuit Explorer from Synopsys (acquired from Analog Design Automation couple years ago),
https://www.cadence.com/products/custom_ic/neocircuit/index.aspx
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What these tools claim they can do are given any circuit topology, and the spec (GBW, noise margin, PSRR, etc.), they will call SPICE (either external or internal)and their optimization engine hundred of thousand times, finally come up with an optimized ckr which is supposed to meet the spec.
What I mean is tools like neockt from Cadence, or Circuit Explorer from Synopsys (acquired from Analog Design Automation couple years ago),
https://www.cadence.com/products/custom_ic/neocircuit/index.aspx
**broken link removed**
What these tools claim they can do are given any circuit topology, and the spec (GBW, noise margin, PSRR, etc.), they will call SPICE (either external or internal)and their optimization engine hundred of thousand times, finally come up with an optimized ckr which is supposed to meet the spec.