Spectre Simulation Platform

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 SPICE 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 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 FX Simulator provides high-performance and large capacity FastSPICE simulation needed for verifying functionality, timing, and power for the largest advanced-node memory and SoC 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 Cadence Xcelium™ Logic Simulation

Spectre Simulation Options

• The Spectre X-RF Option provides accurate and fast simulation for RFIC circuits and includes periodic steady-state, small-signal, and noise analyses along with harmonic balance (HB) analysis capabilities to maximize performance without loss in accuracy. Taking advantage of the Spectre X architecture, HB analysis can be distributed to multiple cores to power through the simulation task faster

• 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 provides dedicated transistor-level electromigration and IR drop (EM-IR) analysis that can be used on the command line or within the front-to-back flow, leveraging the Cadence Voltus™-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution