Introduction

Model Quality Assurance (MQA) is a collection of comprehensive SPICE model validation procedures,

interfaces and utilities that provide the ability to thoroughly check SPICE model quality and automate

QA and reporting procedures for both silicon and III-V technologies. Given today’s deep submicron

process technologies and increasing model complexities, validating SPICE models is a significant

challenge and can be very time consuming. However, SPICE modeling engineers and model users still

want the models to be thoroughly checked and the model characteristics to be easily obtained. MQA

satisfies this critical industry requirement by rigorously checking the model quality, plotting model

characteristics, and customizing the output targets with its comprehensive checking rules while

employing easy-to-use interfaces and utilities.

Key features

– Integrates a comprehensive set of rules to ensure SPICE model quality while overlaying

measurements to simulation results

– Fast results and turn-key operations

– Rules and checking functions are flexible and fully customizable; supports Perl and TCL as

Scripted-rule

– Quick measurement QA, model comparison and corner model QA

– Powerful plotting functions and utilities

– Open interface enables flexible support of models, simulators and checking routines

– Powerful report generation

– Easy sharing of model information

– Powerful equation viewer

– Model Tweaking function

– Quick check syntax and link in library

– Support of Load Sharing Facility (LSF)

– Complete parallelism support on different levels: simulator level, rule level and project level

– Supports QA projects using different versions of a simulator

– Native support of IC-CAP mdm data and MySQL/SQLite database