A method for building a hierarchical representation of a circuit for simulation includes 1) receiving a source file containing SPICE-like netlist descriptions of the circuit in a flattened representation; 2) generating a primitive database using the source file, where the primitive database includes...http://www.google.de/patents/US7328143?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7328143 - Systems and methods for efficiently simulating analog behavior of designs having hierarchical structure
