A VHDL-AMS mixed-signal, mixed-technology design tool

Abstract

This paper describes an Air Force Research Laboratory (formerly Rome Laboratory) development program entitled "Mixed Signal Technology Integration Environment," or "MISTIE." The technologies and tools developed under this program improve a designer's capability to deal with the increasing complexity of today's analog, mixed-signal and mixed-technology designs, as a simulator and design environment for VHDL-AMS (VHDL extensions for Analog and mixed Signal as defined by IEEE 1076. 1). The tool suite integrates analog and digital simulation kernels with support tools, to provide a complete analog and mixed signal or mixed technology design environment.