MATLAB - SPICE interface (MATSPICE) and its applications

Author

Madbouly, M. ; Dessouky, M. ; Zakaria, M. ; Latif, R.A. ; Farid, A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2003

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

40

Abstract

This paper introduces an interface between MATLAB and SPICE, some of its applications will be introduced and examples on these applications will be illustrated. This interface allows the circuit designer to use all the benefits of the circuit level simulators under the MATLAB environment. This avoids many manual steps done on the simulator. Simulation results are transferred to MATLAB to be analyzed using the powerful MATLAB toolboxes. The scope of the applications of MATSPICE is huge and depends on the circuit designer. The applications in this paper will be in the circuit sizing and in the automatic verification of MATLAB circuit and device models. MATSPICE can be a part of a more general synthesis tool as will be shown in the examples.

Keywords

SPICE; integrated circuit design; semiconductor device models; SPICE interface; automatic verification; circuit design; circuit level simulation; device models; Analytical models; Automation; Circuit simulation; Circuit synthesis; Computational modeling; MATLAB; Mathematical model; SPICE; Transient analysis; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics, 2003. ICM 2003. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

977-05-2010-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM.2003.1287717

Filename

1287717