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 RF-IC 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