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Invention/Software Models the behavior of non-linear analog electrical circuits and systems
About
Fundamentally, it is a necessity to simulate the operation of electronic circuits on a computer BEFORE committing designs to expensive fabrication and production manufacturing. In order to accomplish this task, the simulator requires models of the electronic components. Many of these models are built in to the simulators or come in accompanying libraries for elementary electronic components such as transistors, diodes and passive elements. However, as design complexities have increased over the past decade, simulators can no longer handle the simulations required of an entire chip-level design at this low-level of abstraction -at least not in a time frame attractive to the designer.
Key Benefits
PARAGON is a software tool developed specifically to solve the problem of design complexities and enables this modeling to occur in a single day rather than weeks to months by facilitating model development and creation and validation. Recently, students at NC State University implemented a standard transistor model into a simulator and it took 7 weeks on average per team. A single student at the UA implemented the same model in PARAGON in 1 week. This is indicative of the improvements and with experience this time can be reduced more significantly.
Applications
Models the behavior of non-linear analog electrical circuits and systems