Virtuoso Studio

RF Design

Cadence offers RF analyses built on silicon-proven simulation engines in both the time and frequency domains. These provide design insight and enable the verification of broad RFIC types, including mixers, transceivers, power amplifiers, dividers, switched capacitors, filters, and phase-locked loops (PLLs). Cadence RFIC design solutions offer an ideal balance of automation to manage design intent that flows naturally from the schematic throughout all phases of the IC development.

The demand for more sophisticated wireless devices is driving the need for miniaturized RF systems, often implemented in multi-device and multi-fabric modules. The Cadence Virtuoso Heterogeneous Integration (HI) for RF solution provides a single, well-integrated design flow that addresses collaboration challenges across design teams to produce the next generation of high-frequency RFIC, RF modules, and multi-chip modules. Virtuoso HI for RF design addresses the challenges of RF systems by tightly integrating all the needed tools into a comprehensive design environment and flow. This powerful design environment supports RFIC, RF module, and package co-design to eliminate design failures from the manual translation of data.