An ASIC Methodology for Mixed Analog-Digital Simulation

Behavioral descriptions of analog circuits simulate faster than transistor level descriptions. In ASIC and system level simulations they allow total system verification of larger designs than would be possible at transistor level. A system known as AMP simplifies the modeling task by offering a mechanism to develop models via parameterized building blocks. An additional benefit is that the resulting models are compatible with a model linker which can interface the analog models to a purely digital logic simulator.