Tiburon Design Automation  


Tiburon Design Automation (Tiburon-DA) provides a Verilog-A simulation module that is easily integrated into analog simulators. The module implements the OVI Verilog-A 2.2 standard and generates compiled code that achieves simulation speeds comparable to C-based models, allowing designers to develop complex analog models more quickly and with less effort, while maintaining simulation performance and capabilities. Simple or complex analog models, ranging from behavioral models to transistor level compact models, can be implemented in Verilog-A and distributed to end-users in either source or compiled form.

Publications

“Compact modeling in Verilog-A ” in Transistor Level Modeling for Analog/RF IC Design edited by Wladyslaw Grabinski, Bart Nauwelaers, and Dominique Schreurs.

 

“An Introduction to Verilog-A for Compact Device Models ” tutorial presented at the The 5th International Workshop System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications July 24, 2005 in Banff, Alberta-Canada.

 

“Analog RF Model Development With Verilog-A” invited paper presented at the 2005 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium June 13, 2005 in Long Beach, CA.

 

“New Capabilities for Verilog-A Implementations of Compact Device Models" presented at the Nanotech 2004 Workshop on Compact Modeling in March 7-11, 2004, Boston, MA.

 

Press release: Agilent Technologies and Tiburon Design Automation to integrate Verilog-A support into Agilent's EDA tools.

 

A panel discussion Using Standard Modeling Languages for Compact Modeling at the 2003 IEEE International Workshop on Behavioral Modeling and Simulation BMAS 2003.

 

Portable High-Performance Analog Models using Verilog-A presented at the workshop "Fundamentals of Nonlinear Behavioral Modeling: Foundations and Applications" at MTT 2003 in Philadelphia June 8.

The 6th International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems held its Workshop on Compact Modeling 2003 on February 23-27, 2003 in San Francisco, CA.

Tiburon presented the argument for Verilog-A along with results of Verilog-A model implementations of:


These models were present running in example circuits in both a time-domain simulator (SPICE 3F5) and a frequency-domain simulator (HBsim).

Changing the Paradigm for Compact Model Integration with Verilog-A


FSA Modeling Workshop Panel Session: Is model complexity out of control?
September 9-10, 2002 Santa Clara, CA

Tiburon Panel Presentation Taming Analog Model Complexity

Verilog-A

For an example of a Verilog-A implementation of the popular BSIM3 MOSFET model running in SPICE 3F5, see BSIM3 in SPICE.

For a demonstration of how easy it is to code a model in Verilog-A, see this example of a SPICE Verilog-A diode.

Several compact models are either developed or are available in Verilog-A. These include:

 

Tiburon Personnel

 

Contact Us

Tiburon Design Automation
613 4th Street
Suite 208A
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(707) 539-7368 (phone)
info@tiburon-da.com

 

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