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1993 2003
Single-chip design Disk drive controller Networking IC
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Increasing Physical Effects
Requires silicon-accurate methodology
§ I/O density
§ IR-drop § Power density
§ Current density § Frequency
§ Electromigration § Package parasitics
§ Localized hot spots § Thermal effects
Package
Power grid § Dishing & erosion
§ Slotting, dummy metal
Interconnect § Wire distortion
§ Noise coupling
Devices
§ Glitch coupling
§ Short channel modeling Substrate § Electromigration
§ Intra-die variation § Inductance
§ Parasitic modeling
§ Sub-threshold modeling
§ Substrate parasitics
§ Multi-Vt operation
§ Noise coupling
§ Reliability modeling
§ Thermal effects
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Virtuoso Custom Platform
Fast, silicon-accurate
Spec-driven environment
Silicon
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Industry Firsts
Virtuoso custom design platform
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INVENTION DESIGN STEP
Silicon Specification
Aptivia
Silicon Capture IP
Calibration Composer/Vituoso Sharing
Pro
Open Access
AMS Designer
Suite
Measurement
Analog Design Environment
Process
Design
Kits Analysis
Spectre UltraSim RF
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AMS/DMS Designer Architecture / Flow
Incisive-SPW Incisive / System C
AMS Simulator
Spectre Circuit Incisive (NCSIM) UltraSim FastSPICE
Solver Digital Solver Solver
AMS Environment
AMSDirect Hierarchy Editor
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Design Landscape + Tools
# of transistors/elements
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SoC
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Ult
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Ultra
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Cell Spectre Mi
Characterization SpectreRF
RF
Digital Analog
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High Level Simulation Roadmap
Q1 03 Q2 03 Q3 03 Q4 03 1H 04
Performance Program
Foundry Program
OA
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Multi-mode Simulation
A new standard in speed & accuracy
FastSPICE
– 1000x FastSPICE within 3% accuracy
Multi-mode
simulation
SPICE
AMS
HSPICE compatibility: unplug & play
RF
Advanced Common
§ syntax
device § models
modeling § equations
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Multi-mode Simulation
Master licensing: one investment, any
simulator
FastSPICE
token
Multi-mode
simulation
SPICE
token – FastSPICE = 6 tokens
AMS
RF
Why buy standalone simulators?
Advanced Common
§ syntax
device § models
modeling § equations
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ELECTRONIC DESIGN FOR
MANUFACTURING
Tools to solve everyday design problems
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IC 5.0 Changes
ADE, AMS, Spectre and SpectreRF
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Linux Support
Product Availability
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Spectre --- Memory Reduction Projects
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Spectre --- Performance Projects (1)
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Spectre --- Performance Projects (2)
• Continuous Performance Measurement
– Instrumentation and Nightly Monitoring
• Optimizations
– Compiler Optimizations for Solaris, Linux, P3/P4
– Specific Code Optimization for all platforms
– Platform Specific Optimized Libraries
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Multi-Threaded Device Evaluation
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Status of Multi-Threading Project
3.00
2.50
Relative Performance
2.00
Theoretical
1.50 Average
Typical
1.00
0.50
0.00
1 2 3 4
Number of Threads
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Table Models
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OpenAccess
Efficient multi-domain design
Embedded
Digital & D/MS Analog & A/MS RF & RF/digital Custom digital
software
OpenAccess
universal
Chip integration data hub
System
verification
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OpenAccess Benefits To
Cadence Customers
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Virtuoso Custom Platform
Delivers next-generation capabilities
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