PSpice and Simulink Integration
The integration of Cadence® PSpice® with MathWorks MATLAB and Simulink provides a complete system-level simulation solution for PCB design and implementation. Customers can now utilize PSpice for analog/mixed-signal simulation and perform MATLAB/Simulink behavioral-level modeling, analysis, and visualization in a single, integrated system design and debug environment, improving productivity and accelerating time to market.
To satisfy different design needs, here are four categories of interfaces supported by PSpice and MATLAB/Simulink integration:
The Simulink/PSpice interface enables simulation between PSpice Designer and Simulink, allowing designers to simulate complete systems in a virtual prototype environment. It allows you to simulate with ideal models for faster simulation during proof of concept, or simulate with actual electrical designs without the need to prototype the entire system.
Cadence and MathWorks also enhance the integration by providing a bi-directional flow where the customer can import a Simulink model and co-simulate in PSpice. With PSpice Device Model Interface (DMI), which allows you to define C/C++, SystemC®, and Verilog ADMS components and simulate them in PSpice, you can import MATLAB software-generated code into PSpice as a DMI model and use it in a PSpice simulation.
The powerful waveform analysis capability of PSpice gets another boost by enabling simulation results exporting to MATLAB. Now PSpice users have complete and seamless access to MATLAB plotting capabilities, can view PSpice simulation results in MATLAB, and can customize waveform processing on export.
EE designers always have a need for fast mathematical computation, and this need is felt even more when performing complex mathematical computations during the waveform analysis and behavioral modeling stage. The enhanced PSpice/MATLAB interface enables you to use MATLAB functions directly in measurement expression and in behavioral modeling within PSpice and Capture/DEHDL environment.
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