SIMULATION OF AN ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING ANALOG AND DIGITAL CIRCUITRY USING HIGH LEVEL MARCO MODELS

A method of, and apparatus for, simulating an electronic system which comprises a sequence of interconnected functional blocks. The method comprises providing a high level macro model of each of the functional blocks, providing a low level description of each of the functional blocks in terms of a detailed circuit and/or physical layout and extracting parameters of each high level macro model from the low level description of the corresponding block by processing operations prior to simulation. The simulation comprises applying inputs signals to the system, computing the behavior of each functional block in the sequence, including the interaction with its neighbors, using the extracted parameters of the high level macro models, and monitoring the signals at the output of the system to determine if the system behaves as anticipated.