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Rohit Sharma

07/17/2020, 4:32 AM
Guna supports 6 different simulators including hapice, ngapice, spectre, finesim and others.
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Matthew Guthaus

07/17/2020, 4:33 AM
What is Guna?
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Rohit Sharma

07/17/2020, 4:35 AM
Characterization product from Guna - https://www.paripath.com/Products/Guna
Being considered for opensource contingent on grants and other projects like openRoad.
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Guna is a machine learning enabled characterization platform for standard cells, I/O pad, complex cells, memories and AMS IPs. It is built on BEST in class analysis engines to provide NLDM, ,NLPM, CCS, ECSM, AOCV, LVF and other popular models.
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Matthew Guthaus

07/17/2020, 1:43 PM
It won't let me even see a white paper without registering...
I may be a bit pessimistic, but it throws around "cloud" and "machine learning" quite a bit without justifying why.
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Rohit Sharma

07/17/2020, 1:56 PM
Here is the Guna datasheet.
Machine learning and boolean algebra is used to identify cell-type with pattern matching w/ cell-netlist to improve productivity and QA.
Philipp Guhring has used the software to setup his libraries.