Mixed-signal system verification by SystemC/SystemC-AMS and HSIM-VCS in near field communication tag design

Traditional circuit description languages such as SPICE, VHDL, and Verilog have limited capability of designing and verifying large scale mixed-signal systems, because they can only deal with analog or digital circuits and lack of flexibility of modeling complicated mixed-signal stimulus. This paper presents a verification method combining SystemC/SystemC-AMS and HSIM-VCS verification platforms to design a Near Field Communication (NFC) tag and verify its function under certain noise conditions.