Overview
Fast and Easy Design Entry
The Cadence Virtuoso Schematic Editor provides numerous capabilities to facilitate fast and easy design entry, including design assistants that speed common tasks by as much as 5X. Well-defined component libraries allow faster design at both the gate and transistor levels. Sophisticated wire-routing capabilities further assist in connecting devices. For larger and more complex custom/analog, RF, photonics, and mixed-signal designs, the Virtuoso Schematic Editor not only supports multi-sheet designs, but also provides the ability to design hierarchically, with no limit on the number of levels used. The hierarchy editor makes hierarchical designs easy to traverse and automatically ensures all connections are maintained accurately throughout the design.
Key Benefits
Common Entry Tool for All Types of Design Flows, From Analog and Mixed-Signal Design to RF and Photonics
You can create schematics for any type of custom design as the starting point for many Cadence solutions.
Flexible Design Configuration
Configures your design to mix analog, digital, parasitic, and behavioral representations together for unprecedented flexibility
Save Design Time
Unifies design documentation tasks for easy archiving and datasheet creation
User Configurable
Allows advanced users to program bind keys and object-sensitive pop-up menus for quick command access
Features
The Virtuoso Schematic Editor product family provides a flexible set of product performance levels, Virtuoso Schematic Editor L and Virtuoso Schematic Editor XL, to best suit your design flow needs. Virtuoso Schematic Editor XL adds the additional features below to the design entry cockpit.
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