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As the industry’s leading solution for accurate analog simulation, the Cadence® Spectre® Simulation Platform contains multiple solvers to allow a designer to move easily and seamlessly between circuit-, block-, and system-level simulation tasks. The foundation of the platform is a unified set of technologies shared by all of the engines—the parser, device models, Verilog-A behavioral modeling, input data formats, output data formats, etc.—thereby guaranteeing consistent and accurate evaluation methods regardless of the simulator selected.

Spectre Simulation Engines

  • Spectre Accelerated Parallel Simulator (APS) analog simulator provides Spectre accuracy with a 5X reduction in simulation time as compared to the original Spectre engine
  • Spectre X Simulator solves large-scale verification simulation challenges with up to 10X speed and 5X capacity improvements as well as scalable and massively parallel simulation for cloud computing
  • Spectre Extensive Partitioning Simulator (XPS) provides FastSPICE high-performance and capacity simulation needed to handle memory and mixed-signal designs
  • Spectre AMS Designer, Cadence’s mixed-signal, mixed-language, mixed-level, functional, behavioral, gate-level, and transistor-level simulator, is used in conjunction with the Cadence Xcelium® simulation technology

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  • The Spectre RF Option provides accurate and fast simulation for RFIC circuits. The option includes periodic steady-state, small-signal, and noise analyses along with harmonic balance analysis capabilities to maximize performance without loss in accuracy
  • The Spectre CPU Accelerator Option enables multi-thread simulation for transient and periodic steady-state analysis, extremely useful for verification of parasitic back-annotated designs across multiple CPUs
  • The Spectre Power Option is the dedicated transistor-level electromigration and IR drop analysis that is used as the analysis engine inside the Cadence Voltus™-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution

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