Spectre RF Option

The Cadence^® Spectre^® RF Option provides numerous RF analyses built on silicon-proven simulation engines in both the time and frequency domain simulation. The wide range of analyses provides design insight and enables verification of broad RFIC types,  including mixers, transceivers, power amplifiers, dividers, switched capacitors, filters, and phase-locked loops (PLLs).

The Spectre RF Option supports extensive noise and distortion analysis technologies. It also provides application-centric analysis, such as wireless analysis for system-level performance evaluation using standard-compliant signal sources. The tight integration into the Cadence Virtuoso^® ADE Product Suite enables exhaustive simulation with set up of multiple tests for multiple conditions.

Features

• Harmonic balance and Shooting Newton engines for high-performance simulation of linear and non-linear RF circuits
• Comprehensive set of analyses for robust RF circuit verification
• Powerful fast envelope modeling technology, standard-compliant sources, and automated set-up and post-processing for wireless analysis
• RF transmission line library, which allows verification of the RF design in the context of on- and off-chip passive circuitry
• Fast, high-capacity simulation of S-parameter data with Cadence Sigrity^™ Broadband SPICE^® technology