Virtuoso ADE Product Suite

With the emergence of new ISO standards, advanced-node designs, and the requirements for system design enablement, analog engineers are experiencing difficulty maximizing productivity and predictability while meeting aggressive time-to-market deadlines. The Cadence^® Virtuoso^® ADE product suite offers unparalleled performance and ease-of-use features that set the new standard for quality custom design, analysis, and verification.

The new Virtuoso ADE product suite enables designers to fully explore, analyze, and verify a design against design goals so that they can maintain design intent throughout the design cycle. As the industry’s leading solution for analog simulation control and management, the Virtuoso ADE product suite allows you to flexibly select the product(s) that best support your design goals as you move through the design flow.

Virtuoso ADE Explorer

The Virtuoso ADE Explorer allows you to more easily explore the initial stages of your design with:

• Spectre^® checks supported for detecting and reporting circuit problems during simulation
• Real-time tuning for fast and accurate pinpointing of your design specifications
• Pass/fail datasheets
• Complete corners and Monte Carlo statistical environment for detecting and fixing variation problems before they sink your circuit

Virtuoso ADE Assembler

Using the Virtuoso ADE Assembler, analyze the various conditions of your circuit with an environment that approaches design and analysis from a specification-driven point of view:

• Quickly test your circuits’ multiple specifications across corners, multiple stimulus testbenches, and statistical variance
• Added mini-run plans easily create conditional and dependent simulations
• Built-in advanced statistical features such as worst-case corner development
• Balance your conflicting design specifications by using advanced optimization technology
• Extensive design checks can be managed in your design to find faulty nets and devices quickly
• Verify that your assumptions about critical paths in your design are valid by analyzing partial layout and routing parasitics
• Optional Virtuoso Variation Option for customers needing to do advanced-node statistics (16nm and below), statistical sensitivity, and high-yield estimation of greater than 3 sigma

Virtuoso ADE Verifier

Get a global view of the circuit status with the Virtuoso ADE Verifier, and easily verify that all the moving pieces of the analog design are contributing to the overall design specifications set by your chip architect. Manual attempts to do this work often lead to mistakes since there is a disconnect between those methods and the design software. Not anymore. Now you can:

• Link analog tests across multiple designers within a company to the highest level specifications of the circuit and view that data in a single, easy-to-use cockpit
• View test pass/fail results across an entire design team
• Updates are automatically reflected in the cockpit
• Use regression testing to build a bridge to the digital world in support of mixed-signal verification

Virtuoso Variation Option

Use the Virtuoso Variation Option to discover areas where the variance of your design could ruin your results:

• Simple-to-use, task-driven user interface minimizes set-up time
• Fast Monte Carlo analysis employs high-performance sampling methods to efficiently verify yield or create corners, with additional speed-up for FinFETs
• High-yield estimation lets you efficiently analyze the 5- or 6-sigma boundaries of your design
• One-button click to create worst-case 3-sigma corners
• Statistically based mismatch and sensitivity analyses

Integration with MathWorks MATLAB

The integration with MathWorks MATLAB enables you to accelerate processing of large data sets when verifying custom, RF, and mixed-signal designs:

• Seamlessly share data between the platforms allowing for data mining and efficient analysis improving time to market
• Solve complex data calculations using expert coding knowledge and low-level APIs

Automotive TCL1 Certified for ISO 26262

The industry’s first analog/mixed-signal design implementation and verification flow to achieve “Fit for Purpose - Tool Confidence Level 1 (TCL1)” certification enables you to meet stringent ISO 26262 automotive safety requirements. The flow brings transistor-level designs from creation and simulation through physical implementation and verification using the Virtuoso ADE Product Suite and the Spectre Circuit Simulation Platform. The Virtuoso ADE Verifier provides design engineers with an integrated means to validate the safety specifications against individual circuit specifications for design confidence. For information on the safety manuals, Tool Confidence Analysis (TCA) documents, and compliance reports from TÜV SÜD, download the Functional Safety Documentation Kits through Cadence Online Support.