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Virtuoso® Spectre® Circuit Simulator and Accelerated Parallel Simulator User Guide

• Introduction to Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator
• Spectre Netlists
• Parameter Specification and Modeling Features
• Analyses
• Control Statements
• Specifying Output Options
• Running a Simulation
• Post-Layout Simulation
• Time-Saving Techniques
• Managing Files
• Identifying Problems and Troubleshooting
• Example Circuits

Virtuoso® Simulator Measurement Description Language User Guide and Reference

• Defining and Using Measurement Aliases

Virtuoso® Spectre® Circuit Simulator RF Analysis Library Reference

• A bunch of circuit and analysis components (filters, radios, PLLs, etc.)

Virtuoso® RelXpert Reliability Simulator User Guide

• Hot-Carrier Degradation Model for MOS Transistors

Virtuoso Simulator Components and Device Models Reference

• Circuit Components (Sources, s-domain, z-domain, Noise, Analog/Logic, Switch, etc.)
• Passive Components
• Tons of transistor & diode models (e.g. BSIM6, PSP, mosvar, EKV

Virtuoso® Spectre® Circuit Simulator Reference

• Analyis Statements (ac, cosim (MATLAB), dc, envlp, hb, bhac, noise, pnoise, pz, xf, etc.)
• Other Simulation Topics (bsource, expressions, functions, if, keywords, digital stimulus, Verilog-A)
• Circuit Checks

Virtuoso® Spectre® Circuit Simulator and Accelerated Parallel Simulator RF Analysis User Guide

• Fundamentals of RF Simulation (Shooting Newton & Harmonic Balance)
• Setting up a SpectreRF Simulation
• Frequency Domain Analyses: Harmonic Balance
• Single Input Large and Small-signal Analyses
• Multiple Input Large and Small-signal Analyses
• Envelope Analysis (ENVLP)
• Large Signal S-parameter Simulation (LSSP)
• AnalogLib Components Used in RF Simulation
• Cosimulation with MATLAB and Simulink
• Design Workshops
• Top-down RF Design Methodology

Virtuoso® Spectre® Circuit Simulator RF Analysis Theory

• How the sims work
• SpectreRF MATLAB Toolbox
• The SpectreRF Analyses
• Simulating Oscillators

Cadence® Verilog®-A Language Reference

• Modeling Concepts
• Creating Modules
• Using Verilog-A in the Cadence Analog Design Environment
• Verilog-A Modeling Examples

Cadence® Verilog®-A What's New

• Not much