Cadence Introduces the Spectre FX FastSPICE Simulator Delivering up to 3X Performance Gains with Superior Accuracy
May 20 2021 - 10:45AM
Business Wire
The Spectre FX Simulator’s completely new
architecture delivers transformative innovation to accelerate
verification of memory and SoC designs
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the
new Cadence® Spectre® FX Simulator, a next-generation FastSPICE
circuit simulator that enables the efficient verification of memory
and large-scale system-on-chip (SoC) designs. As part of the
industry-leading Spectre simulation platform, the Spectre FX
Simulator’s innovative and scalable FastSPICE architecture offers
customers up to 3X better performance compared to the latest
FastSPICE simulators with equal or better accuracy. With the
addition of the Spectre FX Simulator, the Spectre platform offers
the industry's only complete simulation solution providing a
seamless accuracy-performance continuum for all applications from
cell characterization through chip-level verification.
Today's complex memory and SoC designs need high accuracy and
fast simulation performance to ensure they function as intended and
meet chip specifications. Additionally, it's increasingly essential
to include post-layout parasitics in the chip verification process,
especially for advanced-node designs to account for the layout
effects on the chip functionality. Innovative engineering went into
the new FastSPICE solver development to provide breakthrough levels
of performance and accuracy within the Spectre FX Simulator. The
new simulator gives design and verification teams the ability to
accurately check timing, functionality and power consumption of
their full-chip and subsystem-level designs. In addition to the
productivity gains achieved through improved performance with
accuracy, the new Spectre FX simulator offers several other
benefits:
- Scalability: The simulator offers scalability of up to
32 cores with multi-threading to parallelize transient simulations
to take advantage of hardware resources and improve
productivity.
- Best-in-Class Use Model: The Spectre FX Simulator
delivers the industry's most intuitive use model with the best
out-of-the-box accuracy and performance balance and a minimal
amount of tuning needed to obtain the optimal accuracy and
simulation speed for any given verification task.
- Ease of Adoption: The simulator fully leverages the
Spectre platform's infrastructure technology, including seamless
integration into the Virtuoso® ADE Product Suite, providing easy
adoption into existing Spectre and SPICE flows.
- Comprehensive Analyses and Verification Capabilities:
The Spectre FX Simulator offers extensive verification
capabilities, including static and dynamic circuit checking,
alters, sweeps and Monte Carlo analyses, allowing designers to
expand the scope of their verification beyond functionality, timing
and power checks.
"At MediaTek, we need a highly accurate, scalable, and fast
top-level verification solution for our advanced-node high-speed
SoC designs," said Ching San Wu, Corporate Vice President at
MediaTek. "Using the new Cadence Spectre FX Simulator, we
accelerated FastSPICE verification by 3X, leveraging its
performance, ease of use, and multi-core capabilities. By deploying
the Spectre FX Simulator, we can leverage the full Cadence Spectre
platform as a one-stop-shop solution for all our SoC simulation
needs."
"Renesas’ flash memory IP verification flow must verify
functionality, timing and power in various operating modes
efficiently and accurately, while also taking into consideration
parasitic layout effects," said Mr. Nobuhiko Goto, Director, Design
Automation Department, Shared R&D EDA Division at Renesas. "The
new Spectre FX Simulator fits seamlessly into our IP verification
flow and is on track to delivering 2X increase in productivity with
its intuitive use model and the need for very little tuning."
"The Cadence Spectre Platform has been the leading analog
simulation solution for more than 25 years, consistently providing
our customers with proven accuracy and performance benefits," said
Tom Beckley, senior vice president and general manager of the
Custom IC & PCB Group at Cadence. "With the new Spectre FX
Simulator, we are completing the Spectre portfolio and bringing
customers a highly accurate and fast simulation solution. The
Spectre FX Simulator allows customers to accelerate SoC design
verification, enabling them to meet aggressive time-to-market
goals."
The new Spectre FX Simulator further builds upon Spectre
industry leadership and supports the Cadence Intelligent System
Design™ strategy, enabling design excellence. For more information
on the new Spectre FX Simulator, please visit
www.cadence.com/go/SpectreFX.
About Cadence
Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon
more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company
applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to
deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into
reality. Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative
companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips
to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications,
including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications,
automotive, mobile, aerospace, industrial and healthcare. For seven
years in a row, Fortune magazine has named Cadence one of the 100
Best Companies to Work For. Learn more at cadence.com.
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