what is the best simulater for Analog design?

[wael_wael]

Hi
i am using Pspice now, to simulate my designs. but i think is no accuracy with Pspice.
could you suggest the best choice for analog Design
with my regards

 

[flatulent]

All SPICE simulators use the same basic mathematical methods. You should try finer simulation steps. You can also, in the options area, select smaller tolerances.

 

[wael_wael]

All SPICE simulators use the same basic mathematical methods. You should try finer simulation steps. You can also, in the options area, select smaller tolerances.

thank you, but from ur experiance, what do u think about Pspice
regds

 

[flatulent]

If you look a sales volume, this is the most popular one. I am using an older version that uses an ASCII text file as input and have no complaints.

 

[renwl]

Hi
i am using Pspice now, to simulate my designs. but i think is no accuracy with Pspice.
could you suggest the best choice for analog Design
with my regards

you can try spectre. less convergenc problem

 

[roykyn]

i think multisim is the best simulator

 

[winsonpku]

i don't find much difference between the simulators, pspice, hspice and spectre.

Hi
i am using Pspice now, to simulate my designs. but i think is no accuracy with Pspice.
could you suggest the best choice for analog Design
with my regards

 

[tlihu]

The best one might be the one in Berkeley since all commercial versions of spice simulators are all based upon it.

 

[vdaniel]

Then please reference where one can find the best free Berkley version.

 

[jtheerawut]

I recommended HSpice ,but it use command line interface.

 

[shake2004]

hspice and hsim

 

[shaikhsarfraz]

Hi,
As far as accuracy is concerned I think HSPICE is better than Spectre, but it has a lot of convergence problem.
Spectre in that sense is faster.

thanks
sarfraz

 

[apple_fandai]

I prefer HSPICE in analog circuit design.

 

[edisonliu]

eldo is better both for speed and accuracy.

 

[Gunship]

I used to enjoy pspice. But that is before Cadence bought it. I prefer the older
version that has its own schematic frontend, rather than the OrCad frontend.
I crashed it a few times when I model a transmission line with RLC elements.

I used to use multisim too. But that was almost 10 years ago. It is really crapy
at that time. Probably a lot improve now.

I tried Linear Tech's SwitchCAD. Run extremely slow on my Linux box. Maybe
running thru WINE causes some problem. But I try it on my XP64 is still the
same thing. Depending on what you want to do, it is not that good a simulator.

I also try Tina from TI. Seems to work relatively well. Even the commercial
version wasn't that expensive. For people with a tight budget, this is a good
choice.

If you run Linux, then gspice with geda is a decent solution. But the schematic
frontend is not the easiest to use. Maybe someone can suggest a better one.

Over and all, most spice simulator will do most of the job. If you have a large
and complex circuit and no problem with budget, I would get either hspice or
pspice. But if you are not a heavy user, then Tina or even gspice is a good
choice.

One last one worth mentioning is winspice. I used to use it. It does not have
its own schematic front end but give decent graph and speed. It used to be
free but not anymore.

Gunship

 

[ravi dixit]

i also prefer HSPICE 4 analog circuit designing

 

[hippoo]

for me, the LTspice is good enough is your circuit is quite small. however, i prefer either the pspice or hspice...

 

[orbb]

hspice is the most accurate

 

[manissri]

there are many simulator available in market ..
like cadence mentor graphics.
but my gut feeling is the HSPICE is the best one for analog simulation ..
since it is very accurate and robust.
hope this helps.

Added after 1 minutes:

there are many simulator available in market ..
like cadence mentor graphics.
but my gut feeling is the HSPICE is the best one for analog simulation ..
since it is very accurate and robust.
hope this helps.

 

[mystery]

Is HSPICE a visual tool or is it a command based tool?