Overview
High-Performance Simulation of Circuits
Cadence Spectre RF Option provides RF analyses for the design and verification of RFIC and MMIC designs such as mixers, transceivers, power amplifiers, and high-speed analog designs, including dividers, switched capacitors, filters, and phased-lock loops (PLLs).
Spectre RF Option also supports simulation with S-parameters of electromagnetic (EM) elements and application-centric analyses like wireless analysis for system-level performance evaluation using standard-compliant signal sources. Tight integration into the Cadence Virtuoso ADE Suite delivers ease of use for simple and complex use models with multiple tests for multiple conditions.
Its support for Virtuoso Studio RF cockpit offers designers a library of microwave design elements, piece-wise harmonic balance analyses, X-parameters, large signal stability analyses, and harmonic load/source pull analyses.
Key Benefits
Maximize RF Circuit Simulation Productivity
Comprehensive Analyses Support
Supports frequency and time domains for RFIC design and verification
Scalability
Perform RF analyses of large post-layout designs using parallelized multi-threading and distributed solvers
Ease of Use
RFIC design integrated into the familiar Virtuoso ADE environment with an expanded library of microwave design elements
Features
Complete RFIC Design and Verification Capabilities
The Spectre RF Option includes two production-proven RF solvers: a harmonic balance (HB) solver that uses the frequency-domain and a time-domain based one that uses shooting Newton methods for high-performance simulation and verification.