In the not too distant past, most ICs could be designed and manufactured to a written specification. When the IC would come back from manufacturing it would be tested on a rather limited evaluation ...

As chips become more heterogeneous with more integrated functionality, testing them presents increasing challenges — particularly for high-speed system-on-chip (SoC) designs with limited test pin ...

Today, many analog IC manufacturers provide software models in SPICE format. With an enlarging community using electronic design automation (EDA), it's become a prominent challenge to provide SPICE ...