Electronics Forum / CAD / November 2005

Well, I am trying to reduce the simulation time in any way possible:

What is the optimal setup (in terms of windows sim machines and
SmartSpice simulators) to eliminate the need for separate individual
remote desktop log-in on each machine and synchronize the machines so
that the same circuit can be run on separate machines(several CPU's)
but with different parameters, corners, etc. and the machines are
synced such that ideally SmartSpice can transfer, re-use data between
the sims (naturally a slow communication channel here would be an
overhead in sim time)?

Ideally this is the goal, a designer logs on to a single
machine/server, and specifies a circuit (testbench) to be simulated
with a bunch simulations for various corners e.g.; the server then
checks which of its designated sub-machines are free (!), notifiest
SmartSpice so it can start simulating on them. Now as more machines
become free, SmartSpice sends different parts of the testbench to
different machines to be simulated so in essence we have parallel sims
of the same circuit but on different machines. Now add in more
cicuits/testbenches as well so we have a machine that perhaps might
simulate like this: tt circuit A, ss Circuit B, ff circuit C, ss
Circuit A, etc.  - (some kind of priority here) Something like
that...:) Does that automation seem possible on windows machines and
what would it require? Thanks