Re: [Ngspice-users] ngspice & Analog Design Automation

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> On 09/02/17 14:11, Abhay K wrote:
>> Hi,
>> For those interested in Analog Design Automation
>> Here is a link to a springer journal paper which uses ngspice as an
>> integral part of multiobjective optmization of amplifiers
>>
>> http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40747-016-0027-3
>>
>> We also have interesting plans for publishing using ngspice as a main
>> alternative to Cadence and commercial simulators.
>>
>> Regards,
>> abhay
>
> Excellent - I did some work like this in the late 80's (on Cadence!)
> [..]

I am amazed that the commercial simulator used in the paper
is 30 to 40 times slower than NGSPICE. How does Cadence get
away with that?

-marcel