Typical 3D thermal simulation of electronics components assumes that all the power consumption the data sheets define is dissipated in the semiconductor. In the case of high current power modules, ...

QSPICE is an analog and mixed-signal simulator characterized by high simulation speed, accuracy and reliability. It is a new program and can be downloaded here. QSPICE is still in the demonstration ...

For simple circuits, it’s easy enough to grab a breadboard and start putting it together. Breadboards make it easy to check your circuit for mistakes before soldering together a finished product. But ...

Many aspects of semiconductor design and verification have an ever-growing “need for speed” that has outpaced the performance improvements available by running on CPUs. Electronic design automation ...

Magma and Legend have tightly integrated the MSIM engine into Magma's software system for enhanced performance and stability SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 20, 2005 – Legend Design Technology, Inc., a ...

B2 Spice A/D Version 4 lets you design and simulate analog, digital, and mixed-mode circuits. The simulation engine is based on Berkeley Spice and includes many extensions from XSpice. It features 17 ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. A major new “STATESET” SPICE model used in fast average modeling ( http://www ...

The Barrington Model CBS (Circuit Breaker Simulator) was designed to be a convenient, light weight alternative to operating high voltage circuit breakers while testing the operation of substation ...

Electrical circuits and systems lie at the very heart of modern technology, underpinning applications that range from power supply units and embedded systems to high‐speed communication networks and ...

Nothing is worse for a design team than a chip that fails to work in the bringup lab. Electrical problems are historically a major cause of such failures. Power leaks, power-ground DC paths, missing ...