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News Release from: SIMEC | Subject: VHDL-AMS Simulator
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 22 November 2000
PC-based VHDL-AMS simulator now
available
SIMEC announces that its PC based VHDL-AMS simulator - Hamster - is available in November 2000.
SIMEC announces that its PC based VHDL-AMS simulator - Hamster - will be available by November 2000 Hamster stands for high performance AMS tool for engineering and research and is intended for designers in education, research and development who are interested modelling using VHDL-AMS
With the approval of the IEEE 1076.1 Standard in March last year the first time a general description language for analogue mixed signal systems is available - VHDL-AMS.
Since this time companies are developing solutions for the implementation of the language standard into their simulation packages.
Until today only a small number of companies really provide VHDL-AMS simulation.
Most of them are integrated into large design environments - expensive, inflexible and difficult to use.
"VHDL-AMS is a fairly new and formal language approach for the modelling of analogue mixed signal as well as multi physics problems.
The language has great potential to provide a unified modelling platform for designers in the mixed system area as well as in system design.
It will take a while until designers are familiar with the modelling capabilities of the powerful standard.
With Hamster we provide the first affordable, PC-based solution for modelling and simulation with VHDL-AMS," said Uwe Knorr VP Marketing and Sales and Co-Founder of SIMEC.
" It is a great opportunity for engineers, students and teachers, who want to explore the language and create models without the hassle of large, expensive in inflexible design environments." Hamster comes in a package with an easy-to-use and comfortable source code editor with syntax colouring.
The user can create hierarchical models using already predefined designs.
A comprehensive example collection gives a good overview about the modelling capabilities of the language and the ease of model generation using VHDL-AMS.
Once the model is defined, the user can choose from different integration algorithms and non-linear solvers.
In a simulator specific dialog all integration parameter and outputs can be defined.
For simulation results Hamster provides an online waveform display (ViewTool) with digital and analogue views.
All waveforms are displayed during the simulation.
The results can be stored in several file formats (ASCII, BINARY and Microsoft Access).
The software is fully WINDOWS compliant and supports all common data exchange formats.
The package contains the program modules, a language description (HTML) and an online help how to use the program.
Support will be available via e-mail or our news server.
The language implementation comprises a very comprehensive set of statements of the language standard.
It covers most important modeling features and exceeds the availability of other packages.
SIMEC, founded in 1992, has more than 15 years experience in simulation technology for complex technical systems.
SIMECS powerful system simulator SIMPLORER is leading in power electronics, drive technology and mechatronic system design.
Based on the experience with simulator coupling technology the Hamster kernel was designed for optimum performance and high numerical stability.
Hamster is a big step towards a broad introduction of VHDL-AMS in many industrial applications.
Hamster will be distributed over the web.
It is available for download beginning November 2000 under
All documentation will be delivered electronically.
The package will be available for under $500.00.
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