Friday, April 11, 2008

NVIDIA Powers Hardware-Accelerated SPICE Simulator

The multi-core future of EDA is just starting to appear. NVIDIA Powers Hardware-Accelerated SPICE Simulator is an exciting announcement of a real EDA application (Fast SPICE) running on massively parallel GPU hardware. Will general purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing become the acceleration platform for EDA?

1 comment:

Nick said...

Hi John,

This is nice technology.

There are massively parallel fast-spice simulators out there (like finesim) which scale well and run huge analog circuits (DPLL
s) on compute farms and reduce run time from days to hours.

It would be nice to see the big guys face some stiff competetion in circuit simulation.