Free software support for compact modelling with Verilog-A

Bürmen, Arpad (author), Tuma, Tadej (author), Fajfar, Iztok (author), Puhan, Janez (author), Rojec, Žiga (author), Kunaver, Matevž (author), Tomažič, Sašo (author)

Verilog-A is the analog subset of Verilog-AMS - a hardware description language for analog and mixed-signal systems. Verilog-A is commonly used for the distribution of compact models of semiconductor devices. For such models to be usable a Verilog-A compiler is required. The compiler converts the model equations into a form that can be used by the simulator. Such compilers have been supplied with commercial simulators for many years now. Free software alternatives are much more scarce and limited in the features they offer. The paper gives an overview of Verilog-A, Free software Verilog-A compilers, and Free software/Open source simulators that can simulate compact models defined in Verilog-A. Advantages and disadvantages of individual compilers and simulators are highlighted.

• Language: English
• Keywords: hardware description langugage, Verilog-A, analog circuits, circuit simulation, compact models
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 17 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 54, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-165256
• UDC: 004.43
• ISSN on article: 2232-6979
• COBISS.SI-ID: 216529411
• Publication date in RUL: 28.11.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Informacije MIDEM
• Publisher: MIDEM
• ISSN: 2232-6979
• COBISS.SI-ID: 264503552

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: jezik za opisovanje strojne opreme, Verilog-A, analogna vezja, simulacija vezij, kompaktni modeli

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P2-0246
• Name: ICT4QoL - Informacijsko komunikacijske tehnologije za kakovostno življenje