[ptarmigan]

Sorry if you've already clarified, but is this meant to replace or augment traditional SPICE simulators? I remember Ken Kundert mentioned that, even with the improvements of Spectre over SPICE-based simulators, it took things like SpectreRF's oscillator phase noise modeling to get analog designers to consider changing their ways. Their steadfast use of SPICE is "a form of Stockholm Syndrome," in his own words.

[KenoFischer]

Our plan is to build both some extremely sophisticated analog design tooling that improves the state of the art (by leveraging our existing investments in modeling & simulation from other domains to build a clean simulator implementation) and then have the ML acceleration be an optional "one more thing" that can be used where applicable. Of course the first part is a major undertaking, so we're talking to potential customers to see what particular thing to start with that would really get them to consider using our system. That is independent of the DARPA-funded work though, which is particularly on the ML side (closely aligned of course).