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I'm working on a project on which I'm using a snapdragon 410e processor. I'm done with the circuit design since all the data is available online for designing the PCB. But I want to simulate the whole circuits, Is there any way I can simulate these types of processors before going to the PCB design.

Pooja Mishra
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    Functional simulation? Or simulation of specific analog behavior, like power planes and differential pairs? – Jeroen3 Sep 23 '21 at 10:36
  • In other words, what are you hoping to learn from such a simulation? – Dave Tweed Sep 23 '21 at 10:53
  • There's a big, BIG difference between doing an electrical simulation of the PCB, and doing a full up functional simulation of the board+processor+software. – SteveSh Sep 23 '21 at 11:27
  • For example, I want to check if the flash memory and the processor are communicating or not? Writing a basic code to test the connection. @DaveTweed – Pooja Mishra Sep 24 '21 at 07:48
  • Simulation of each analog behavior, like the selected frequency of the crystal, the clock signals are generating, the behavior of the input/output pins. I want to simulate all this online or for example how we used to code in the proteus and get our microcontroller circuit verified.@Jeroen3 – Pooja Mishra Sep 24 '21 at 07:56
  • @SteveSh I am looking for a functional simulation, before going into PCB electrical simulation, – Pooja Mishra Sep 24 '21 at 07:59
  • I am not aware of anything like your suggesting being done at my company, and we do some pretty complex boards/assemblies (big FPGAs with multiple ARM cores; multi GHz DACs and ADCs, microwave/RF circuits, etc). We model/simulate piecemeal, do electrical/signal integrity analysis for most interfaces, timing analysis, and sometimes a WCCA (Worst Case Circuit Analysis). But we do not simulate the entire board/assembly as a whole. – SteveSh Sep 24 '21 at 14:50
  • For testing things like the communication protocols implemented in software I would use sample boards together with breadboards. I dont see the necessity to use a simulation environment including the final board. What can be intresting is the simulation of EMC behaviour but I don't know what tools are available for this purpose. – A.R.C. Oct 12 '21 at 07:28

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