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Presentation Sheet

GUITAR Graphic User Interface for Trading-off Accuracy and Rapidity

 

 

As circuits and analysis become more and more complex, simulators have to set the default mode of speed-accuracy tradeoff to fit the most common configurations. Cumbersome User Interfaces have turned optimization into a fight with a large number of parameters for reaching the proper settings of every circuit.

Now, SMASH hands this control out to you!
Load your circuit, choose the type of simulation, the needed tradeoff, and… simulate!

 

Key features

  • User friendly interface
  • Encompassing the whole mixed signal trade-off issue
  • Displaying all-too-often unknown parameters
  • Raising designer awareness to impact of settings
  • Graphic tuning of tradeoffs
  • Increased Designer's Speed
  • Time, Spectrum and Amplitude awareness
  • Relevance for Front-end and Back-end performance

Interface description

GUITAR is the straight answer to the designer’s quandary as to Accuracy and Speed of simulation, but with top concern for Designer's productivity. Handling the influence of each parameter and finding the proper compromise is crucial, but tedious and time consuming interfaces have put its practice in oblivion.
Designers now feel comfortable readapting parameters at any time on an innovative menu, to proceed intuitively from design tuning to virtual test and diagnostic then characterization, or ascertain their results on a different simulator.

The tradition is over of imposing more or less cryptic or scattered control parameters, with un-mastered effects and unknown interactions on the speed-accuracy tradeoff. Far beyond time, voltage and current, GUITAR launched by SMASH enables :

  • setting algorithms, fictive components to improve convergence, accuracy on multi-domain variables…
  • Visualizing the speed-accuracy tradeoff status of the circuit simulation setup.
  • Optimizing the parameters with a single cursor to configure the tradeoff

GUITAR grants the ultimate productivity improvement: getting simulation results of higher truthfulness for both front-end Debug and back-end Characterization!

 

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