Keysight, Synopsys, and Ansys Deliver Radio Frequency Design Migration Flow to TSMC’s N6RF+ Process Node
April 24 2024 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
- New flow provides an efficient, integrated radio frequency
circuit re-design solution based on Synopsys Custom Design Family,
Keysight Electromagnetic Simulation, and Ansys Device
Synthesis
- Integrated flow accelerates migration of existing N16 process
passive radio frequency devices to the advanced N6RF+ technology
node for better power, performance, and area results
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), Synopsys, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SNPS), and Ansys (Nasdaq: ANSS) introduce a new integrated
radio frequency (RF) design migration flow from TSMC’s N16 process
to its N6RF+ technology to address the power, performance, and area
(PPA) requirements of today’s most demanding wireless integrated
circuit applications. The new migration workflow integrates
millimeter wave (mmWave) and RF solutions from Keysight, Synopsys,
and Ansys into an efficient design flow that streamlines re-design
of passive devices and design components to TSMC’s more advanced RF
process.
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The new Synopsys, Keysight, and Ansys N16
to N6RF+ integrated radio frequency design migration workflow.
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This RF design migration initiative extends TSMC’s Analog Design
Migration (ADM) methodology with additional capabilities for RF
circuit designers. Beyond the productivity gains offered by ADM,
the Keysight, Synopsys, and Ansys migration workflow demonstrates
significant power reduction for a 2.4GHz low noise amplifier (LNA)
design re-targeted to the N6RF+ process.
Key components of the design migration flow include:
- The Synopsys Custom Design Family, featuring Synopsys Custom
Compiler™ layout environment with Synopsys ASO.ai™ for rapid analog
and RF design migration and Synopsys PrimeSim™ circuit
simulator
- Keysight RFPro for device parameterization, automated value
fitting, and electromagnetic (EM) simulation
- Ansys RaptorH™ for on-silicon electromigration analysis and
VeloceRF™ for passive component synthesis
RF circuit designers can adopt the migration flow to rapidly
re-design their devices to the N6RF+ process specifications and
accelerate time-to-market. Keysight RFPro enables parameterization
of passive devices including inductors and automatically re-creates
highly accurate simulation models with layout tuned to the new
process. Designers view the re-created device layout in Synopsys
Custom Compiler along with synthesized inductors from Ansys
VeloceRF, and then perform interactive EM analysis in complex
wireless chips.
Sanjay Bali, Vice President Strategy and Product Management
EDA Group, Synopsys, said: “The need to rapidly migrate designs
from node to node is essential to address the industry’s relentless
drive towards enhanced quality-of-results on TSMC’s leading process
technologies. The new flow, leveraging Synopsys’ Custom Compiler,
ASO.ai and PrimeSim solutions, offers an integrated RF and analog
design migration solution that enables efficient migration of
designs from TSMC N16 technology platform to N6RF+. Combining the
strengths of trusted and industry-leading RF and mmWave solutions
from Keysight, Synopsys and Ansys provides mutual customers with an
interoperable design flow to unlock massive productivity
gains.”
Niels Faché, Vice President and General Manager, Keysight
EDA, said: “Meeting PPA requirements while adhering to new
process design rules is one of the biggest challenges facing
complex RF chip designs. RF circuit designers want to leverage and
reuse their libraries of N16 device and component intellectual
property to improve ROI. This new flow facilitates fast re-design
in the latest TSMC N6RF+ technology for existing components
originally built in N16. Keysight RFPro enables circuit designers
to easily perform the device parameterization, new simulation model
generation, and interactive EM analysis inside the Synopsys Custom
Compiler layout environment. No time-consuming data handoffs or
domain specialization are required, which increases overall
engineering productivity for RF circuit designers.”
John Lee, Vice President and General Manager of the
Semiconductor, Electronics, and Optics Business Unit at Ansys,
said: “Electromagnetic simulation and modeling play a central
role in developing predictively accurate solutions for RF,
high-speed analog, HPC data transmission, 3DIC interconnect, and
co-packaged optics. We take pride in our partnership with Keysight,
Synopsys and TSMC, because it enables Ansys to nimbly address some
of the most challenging problems in this rapidly evolving and
dynamic market. By fostering open platforms that integrate
best-of-breed solutions, our joint customers will derive greater
value and achieve enhanced product outcomes.”
Dan Kochpatcharin, Head of the Design Infrastructure
Management Division at TSMC, said: “We’re delighted about our
recent collaboration with Ansys, Keysight and Synopsys, which
offers our mutual customers an efficient pathway to migrate their
designs to our more advanced processes, ensuring that they meet the
stringent PPA requirements. We’re committed to continuing our
collaboration with our Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) ecosystem
partners to enable customers’ next-generation designs with
solutions benefiting from the significant power and performance
boost of our leading-edge technologies.”
About Keysight Technologies
At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to
bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500
company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and
test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with
less risk, throughout the entire product lifecycle. We’re a global
innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial
automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and
general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and
secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and
www.keysight.com.
About Synopsys
Catalyzing the era of pervasive intelligence, Synopsys, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SNPS) delivers trusted and comprehensive silicon to
systems design solutions, from electronic design automation to
silicon IP and system verification and validation. We partner
closely with semiconductor and systems customers across a wide
range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and
productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity
of tomorrow. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
About Ansys
When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing
ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality
with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has
enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using
the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation
to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving
medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be
powered by Ansys. Take a leap of certainty … with Ansys.
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