Legend Releases Turbo-MSIM Fast-SPICE Simulator for Verification, Analysis and Characterization in SoC Design
(Interviews, 30 May 2007 )
Legend Design Technology Inc. has announced the release of Turbo-MSIM, a Fast-SPICE circuit simulator with super high speed and extremely large capacity while maintaining the SPICE accuracy. Turbo-MSIM can dramatically speed the time for simulating either full-chip hierarchical circuits or the flattened layout-extracted netlists with a huge number of resistors and capacitors. For nanometer circuit designs using complex device models, Turbo-MSIM has the capability to perform full-chip transistor-level simulation and analysis, and nails down any design and layout problem for achieving silicon success.
"Legend is committed to provide a leading-edge simulation solution with best price-performance for customers. In addition to our popular MSIM SPICE simulator, Turbo-MSIM Fast-SPICE simulator is released to provide a complete solution for verification, analysis and characterization. With extensive R&D efforts and field experiences, we have successfully developed next-generation algorithms built into Turbo-MSIM to meet technology challenges and customers' needs," said Dr. You-Pang Wei, president and CEO, Legend Design Technology.
For detailed and critical-path circuit simulation, MSIM has been proven very efficient for the applications such as analog designs and library characterization. As for complex full-chip circuit simulation, Turbo-MSIM has demonstrated the capability of dramatically increasing the speed and capacity, especially for the extracted circuits from layout. The targets of Turbo-MSIM applications will be large digital circuits, full memory circuits, analog and mixed-signal designs. For memory circuit verification and characterization, Turbo-MSIM has shown its excellent price performance, and already integrated with Legend's CharFlo-Memory! characterization tool for the throughputs.
