3D-IC Design

Die/Package Planning and Route Optimization

To efficiently plan and assess connectivity and route feasibility in your 3D-IC design, look to the Cadence OrbitIO™ Interconnect Designer. Quickly evaluate the connectivity between the die and package in the context of your full system. Make or refine decisions, then immediately visualize the impact on adjacent fabrics within this single tool to cut down on iterations between silicon and package design teams.

Logic Die DFT

When ready to test, look to the Cadence Genus™ Synthesis Solution and Cadence Modus DFT Software products for logic die design for test (DFT). Using these tools, perform a DFT insertion to test the die-to-die interconnect, including silicon interposers.

Electrical Signoff and System Analysis

In the analysis and signoff phase, you’ll need to validate your design, ensuring that the inter-die in your 3D implementation is correct. You can use the Cadence PVS to perform a cross-die check. You’ll also need to valuate electrical performance. On the digital side, we offer an array of tools for extraction and timing and power signoff

The Cadence Quantus™ Extraction Solution provides parasitic extraction and analysis for TSVs, micro-bumps, and other characteristics associated with 3D technologies.

The Cadence Tempus™ Timing Signoff Solution provides silicon-accurate timing signoff and signal integrity analysis across multiple dies.

The Cadence Clarity™ 3D Solver models and performs 3D electromagnetic simulation of high-speed interconnects for for PCBs, IC packages, and system-on-IC (SoIC) designs. For PCB and IC packages, Cadence's Sigrity™ technology provides high-speed system designers with the most comprehensive end-to-end in-design interconnect modeling as well as signal and power integrity (SI/PI) simulation. 

Thermal Management

The Cadence 3D-IC solution offers a unique capability for thermal management of 3D-IC designs. The Cadence Voltus™ IC Power Integrity Solution generates thermal models that are fed into the Celsius Thermal Solver, which uses this data to determine the temperature distribution for each die. The Celsius Thermal Solver feeds back a temperature map to the Voltus solution for temperature-dependent multi-die IR drop analysis. If you need to run thermal analysis through many iterations, the Voltus solution's GUI allows you to invoke the thermal engine within the solution to get the temperature results automatically displayed at the die level.

Multi-Die Physical Verification

The Cadence Pegasus™ Verification System is a cloud-ready physical verification signoff solution that enables engineers to deliver advanced-node ICs to market faster. The groundbreaking technology delivers up to 10X improved design rule check (DRC) performance on hundreds of CPUs while also reducing turnaround time from days to hours. The Pegasus system’s innovative architecture and native cloud processing provides an elastic and flexible computing environment, which enables customers to complete full-chip signoff DRC on advanced-node designs in a matter of hours, helping designers deliver products to market faster.

Hardware/Software Validation and Power Analysis

The Cadence Palladium^® Z2 Enterprise Emulation Platform offers scalability of up to 10B gates on multi-chiplet system designs with power analysis and optimization.

Chiplet-Based IP

Offers chiplet-based PHY IP with PPA optimized for latency, bandwidth, and power. Cadence PHY IP supports speeds of up to 40Gbps with 1TB/mm efficiency and comes with a complementary controller and management stack.