Framework for Developping Behavioural Models From Physical Designs

Abstract

Verification of high-precision nanometer analog and mixed-signal circuits has become very challenging because traditional Analog simulators do not have the capacity required to support the circuit complexity. As a result, they are not suitable for large analog, mixed-signal, and digital circuits as the run time is too long. To overcome this limitation and address the need of speed and accuracy behavioral models are developed. This article explains the development and implementation of a new digital environment to run analog and mixed signal systems. The proposed environment was tested to verify a 400Gbit/s coherent optical modem.