MIXED-MODE SIMULATOR ACCURATELY MODELS REAL-WORLD DESIGNS.

A wealth of new development tools for circuit-level design and analysis has appeared over the past few years, most of it for digital rather than analog circuitry. But designers of mixed analog/digital application-specific ICs, boards and systems have had no practical tools to simulate their designs as implemented in the real world. This picture was changed this year, however, by the introduction of Saber/Cadat - a merger of Analogy's Saber analog simulator and HHB Systems' Cadat digital simulator. Saber/Cadat is the first general-purpose mixed-mode simulation tool for circuit-through systems-level designs.