State Space Exploration of Analog Circuits by Visualized Multi-Parallel Particle Simulation

In this contribution, a novel approach to exploring analog circuit behavior in the circuit's state space using visualization and multi-parallel particle simulation techniques is presented. Insights not acquirable by conventional circuit characterization methods can be obtained by combining different visualization aspects. The introduction of a visualized multi-parallel particle simulation allows to observe the system's dynamics in a new, up to now unavailable form, revealing possible design errors typically not detected by transient circuit simulation. The acquired results are compared to those of transient simulation and formal verification using an analog model checking approach.