Integration of SPICE with TEK LV511 ASIC design verification system

Author

Srivastava, A. ; Palavali, S.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

16-18 Aug 1993

Firstpage

673

Abstract

The present work involves integration of the simulation stage of design of a VLSI circuit chip and its testing stage. SPICE simulator, TEK LV511 ASIC design verification system and TekWAVES, a test program generator for LV511 were integrated. A software interface, in C language, has been developed between SPICE and the testing tools (TekWAVES and LV511). The functionality of the software interface developed is multifold. It takes input from either SPICE 2G.6 or SPICE 3E.1. The output generated by the software interface can be given as input to either TekWAVES or LV511. A graphical user interface has also been developed with OPENWINDOWS using XView toolkit on SUN workstation. The software interface could be easily linked with VLSI design tools such as MAGIC layout editor

Keywords

C language; SPICE; VLSI; application specific integrated circuits; circuit analysis computing; graphical user interfaces; integrated circuit testing; integrated software; C language; LV511; MAGIC layout editor; OPENWINDOWS; SPICE 2G.6; SPICE 3E.1; SPICE simulator; SUN workstation; TEK LV511 ASIC design verification; TekWAVES; VLSI circuit chip; VLSI design; XView toolkit; graphical user interface; software interface; test program generator; Application specific integrated circuits; Automatic programming; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Graphical user interfaces; SPICE; Software testing; Software tools; System testing; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the 36th Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1760-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.1993.342957

Filename

342957