> Heh, we've actually found some SPICE implementations to have significant numerical issues when compared to our baseline simulator, which has some fancier inte

> Heh, we've actually found some SPICE implementations to have significant numerical issues when compared to our baseline simulator, which has some fancier integrators - I suppose that would make us worse on this metric ;) Hah. That's not surprising. Our vendors generally mean spectre when they talk about full accuracy, but I have a laundry list of grievances when it comes to spectre and its accuracy settings... What are you using as your baseline? > Circuit design was my first job Glad to hear. This industry needs a lot of modernization. > I have a bit of a hypothesis that - between open source tooling becoming more mature, and more people getting into the chip design space for custom accelerators - we're on the cusp of a major overhaul in EDA tooling I hope you're right. The current state of circuit EDA tooling is abysmal. I think on the analog/RF side, the ecosystem is so ancient and entrenched that it will take a herculean effort to make any real strides, especially because the golden age of analog/RF semi startups is over. But digital design is very much becoming open source, as you mentioned, and maybe that will eventually bleed over. I wish all types of circuit design were more accessible to the world - lots of emerging economies could use it, but the up front cost is just so high. There's been a massive surge of software dev recently in the Middle East and Africa, and hopefully hardware dev follows suit.