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Spectre is a SPICE-class circuit simulator owned and distributed by the software company Cadence Design Systems. It provides the basic SPICE analyses and component models. It also supports the Verilog-A modeling language. Spectre comes in enhanced versions that also support RF simulation (SpectreRF) and mixed-signal simulation (AMS Designer). A massively parallel version, Spectre X, was also released to provide performance gains while maintaining the same accuracy as previous Spectre versions. [1]
The netlist formats, behavioral modeling languages, parasitic netlist formats, and stimulus files are common across the Spectre Simulation Platform. Supported formats include:
Spectre was developed at Cadence Design Systems by Ken Kundert and Jacob K. White.