Mixed-signal applications are among the fastest growing market segments in the electronics and semiconductor industry. From watching mobile digital TV to reading on your tablet to enjoying an auto-piloted car, consumers expect electronics to do more—in more places—than ever before. Driven by growth opportunities in mobile communication, networking, power management, automotive, medical, imaging, and security applications, many silicon vendors are refocusing their business on RF, high-performance analog, and mixed-signal designs.
Unified mixed-signal solutions from Cadence are comprehensive, interoperable, and proven with a 20-year track record of helping customers achieve first-silicon success and meet shortened time-to-market goals.
Mixed-signal Design Challenges
Higher integration, along with the migration to advanced process nodes, bring new challenges to mixed-signal design, particularly in the following area:
Top Implementation Challenges
- Seamless data/constraints flow between analog and digital tools
- Integration of mixed-signal IP at the SoC level
- Physical design turnaround time
- Mixed-signal design signoff analysis (timing, power, and noise)
- ECO productivity
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Top Verification Challenges
- Simulation performance
- Simulation model creation
- Unified verification methodology covering analog and digital design parts
- Verifying logic connectivity including low-power verification
- Accurate power analysis
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Cadence Unified Mixed-Signal Methodology
The Cadence Mixed-Signal Solution addresses the implementation and verification challenges and delivers a comprehensive, interoperable, and production-proven methodology in which all design steps—early design planning, front-end design, functional verification, physical implementation, signoff, and packaging—are shared responsibilities between analog and digital teams:
- Comprehensive: unifies a wide spectrum of products and technologies with advanced methodologies
- Interoperable: enables a collaborative design approach where analog and digital design teams work concurrently, sharing design data and information using the OpenAccess common database that improves overall efficiency and turnaround time
- Proven: has addressed the needs of the mixed-signal design community for more than 20 years of delivering thousands of successful tapeouts
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Benefits
- Preserves design intent and integrity across analog and digital boundaries and hierarchy, enabling a faster time to market
- Provides streamlined flows optimized to increase productivity and design efficiency
- Increases design throughput with greater predictability
- OpenAccess database eases sharing of design data between groups, reduces iterations and improves collaboration
- Scalable solution, built-on strong foundations of products, technology, IP, services, support, and a broad ecosystem support
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