Cadence Custom Design Solution

CADENCE CUSTOM DESIGN SOLUTION

The Cadence® Custom Design Solution provides an exceptionally fast and silicon-accurate method of designing custom, analog mixed-signal, RF, and custom-digital ICs. It comprises a unified design environment that blends innovative constraint-driven design capabilities with sophisticated software and flows for design, layout, and verification. The Cadence Custom Design Solution enables designers to boost their productivity to deliver high-quality custom silicon on time, while allowing companies to focus valuable engineering resources on differentiating their products.

The electronic design industry's first end-to-end simulation and verification technology is now tightly integrated with the Cadence custom design solution, enabling a complete design-to-verification methodology.

Fast and silicon-accurate design of custom, analog mixed-signal, RF, and custom-digital ICs

To meet consumer demand for new features and more functionality packed into ever-smaller electronics devices, companies are turning to full-custom design. Custom design can maximize performance while minimizing area and power consumption. However, it requires meticulous fine-tuning of voltages, currents, resistance, and capacitance—and this level of handcrafting not only consumes engineering time but can also put project schedules at risk.

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Since complete automation is not an option, custom design teams need a new method to effectively design, verify, and implement their block- and chip-level designs. They also need an integrated, highly predictable flow that doesn't destabilize their existing processes.

The Cadence® Custom Design Solution provides the fastest way to achieve differentiated custom IC designs. It comprises a unified design environment that blends innovative constraint-driven design capabilities with sophisticated software and flows for design, layout, and verification. With the Cadence Custom Design Solution, designers can boost their productivity to deliver high-quality custom silicon on time, and companies can focus their engineering resources on differentiating their products.

The Cadence Custom Design Solution accelerates the design of custom ICs across various process nodes. By selectively automating aspects of analog, RF, memory, and mixed-signal SoC design and providing advanced technologies integrated on a common database, it enables engineers to focus on precision-crafting their designs. It also incorporates the industry's only "Complete Custom IC Verification solution," which not only includes groundbreaking capabilities for verification throughout the design cycle but also advanced, purpose-built simulation environments for the entire spectrum of IC designs.

The Solution components include:

Constraint-driven design—allows design intent to be saved with a design rather than relying on notes or email conversation. Tools within the Virtuoso® platform obey these design constraints, reducing the risk of design changes that cause schedule slips. See brochure
High-speed, multi-mode simulation—provides all the simulation technology a custom designer needs (SPICE, RF, mixed-signal, FastSPICE) in one optimized package. All the simulators share the same model files, equations, and infrastructure, making it easy to use the right tool for the right job. See white paper
Accelerated layout—a combination of constraint-driven and rule-driven layout ensures that your custom layout is correct by construction the first time and is prepared for a rapid verification cycle. See white paper
Accurate silicon analysis—solid extraction technology, the lynch-pin of the custom design flow, is built specifically for custom designers, specializing in both analog and RF circuitry. Seamless integration with the Virtuoso platform makes parasitic re-simulation and correction easy.
Manufacturing-aware chip finishing—integrates the manufacturing nuance of lithography with the design flow during the design (rather than leaving it to a post-processing step), which is critical for sub-90nm design. It's built-in and easily accessible for non-lithography experts to tune their design before mask creation.

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