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SmartView reads simulation results while they’re being computed or after the run has finished, and puts the chart, the measurement and the post-processing in one window. It handles analog, RF, digital and mixed-signal results. It also compares several runs at once, so the corner that fails stands out against the ones that pass. It’s built into Silvaco’s own flow, with SmartSpice, SmartSpice Pro, Gateway and the digital simulators, and it opens the files HSPICE and Spectre write as well.
Most of this works from the mouse. Anything you do by hand, you can script.
Customizable toolbar, drag and drop, and a hierarchical browser for the result data. You set the preferences and layouts.
Send commands from the interface to the built-in JavaScript interpreter as you work, or script the same steps to batch-process a set of results.
Cartesian, histogram, polar, Smith and digital charts, with Y and Z Smith charts and constellation diagrams for RF work.
Stack traces on a shared X axis, or lay charts out horizontally, vertically, tiled or as a palette.
AB, data, triangle, cross-section and X markers, plus probes and slope tools.
A marker snaps to the trace you’ve selected and tracks the mouse from chart to chart, so you can read a value and annotate it without leaving the plot.
Single measurements: average, derivative, RMS, minimum and maximum.
Composite measurements: average period, cross point, delay, find at crossing, find at Y, overshoot, period and rise time.
FFT, eye diagram, jitter analysis, an ADC utility and a compute-bus utility.
The vector calculator comes with SPICE macros and functions already loaded, and accepts functions you write yourself.
Arrange vectors flat or hierarchically, and filter a large result set before you plot it. Compare runs directly, or put the history of several concurrent simulations on one chart. Result files several gigabytes in size load without trouble.
Reads SmartSpice, HSPICE, Spectre PSF (binary and ASCII), FSDB, Touchstone, Harmony and Silos, VCD and Liberty files.
Results come in from Silvaco’s simulators and from other vendors’ tools. Charts and numbers go out to your reports and your own scripts.
Simulation results, from Silvaco and third-party simulators. SmartSpice feeds SmartView during a run. Everything else opens from file, including HSPICE, Spectre PSF, FSDB, Touchstone and VCD.
Charts and data, for reports and your own analysis. Export an annotated chart as an image or copy it to the clipboard, or save the underlying data as ASCII and pick it up in your own scripts.
Mobile Semiconductor and Silicon Creations both name SmartView in their design flows.
Characterizing a memory compiler means tens of thousands of SPICE runs and hundreds of .measure statements. Mobile Semiconductor used SmartView to combine and compare those measurements and debug the waveforms behind them. Its characterization time fell by 50% after the move to SmartSpice, with SmartView for debug.
Silicon Creations has analog and mixed-signal IP in production from 7 to 180 nm. It runs SmartView alongside Gateway and Expert in its FinFET design flow.
Two pages covering the chart types, measurements, post-processing utilities, supported formats, and the Silvaco tools SmartView integrates with.
Documentation for SmartView and the rest of Circuit Simulation, in Support and Downloads.
Data markers, probes, and the slope, triangle and cross-section tools, step by step. It includes the snap grid, which turns a 20%–80% rise-time reading into two clicks.
Updates across the analog custom design flow, including SmartView waveform analysis, alongside Gateway, Expert and Guardian.
From the Simulation Standard archive: how SmartView and SmartSpice were built to work together. Read it for the design thinking, because the feature set has moved on since.
Bring the result file that’s too big to open comfortably, or the measurement you rebuild by hand after every run. We’ll show you what SmartView does with it.
A waveform viewer plots what a circuit simulation computed, such as voltages, currents and derived quantities against time or frequency. That lets you see a result, measure it and compare it with other runs. SmartView is Silvaco’s waveform viewer, and it adds built-in measurements, FFT, eye diagrams and multi-run comparison.
It reads SmartSpice live during a run or from file afterwards. It also reads SmartSpice Pro and Silvaco’s other circuit and digital tools: Gateway, SmartSpice RF, Harmony and Silos. Results from other vendors open from file too: HSPICE, Spectre PSF and FSDB for analog, VCD for digital, and Touchstone for S-parameters.
For analog results: SmartSpice .raw, HSPICE .tr, .ac and .sw, Spectre PSF in binary or ASCII, FSDB versions 4 and 5, and Touchstone S-parameter files. For digital: Harmony and Silos .rawd, and standard VCD. It also reads Liberty .lib files, and saves data back out as ASCII and charts as images.
Yes. Load several runs at once and compare them trace by trace, or view concurrent simulations together on one plot. Filter large result sets before you compare, so the corner or Monte Carlo sample you’re chasing isn’t buried in traces you don’t need.
Five single measurements: average, derivative, RMS, minimum and maximum. Eight composite ones: average period, cross point, delay, find at crossing, find at Y, overshoot, period and rise time. Markers and probes read anything else interactively, and the vector calculator handles your own functions.
Yes. SmartView follows a SmartSpice run in real time as well as opening finished results. With rubberband tuning in SmartSpice and Gateway, you can change a model or instance parameter on the schematic, and the waveform in SmartView updates as you change it, without waiting for a fresh run.