Key Features

Design Management

• Highly customizable post-processing of results
  • Transient and Spectral plots
  • Eye diagrams with characteristic measurements
  • Bit Error Rate curves and contours
  • 3D swept parametric reports
  • Statistical Eye diagrams
• Design optimization, tuning, and swept parameter analysis
• Statistical, Sensitivity, and yield analyses
• Advanced padstack editing
• DX integration for manufacturability analyses
• DoE integration
• Transmission line calculator utility
• Network Data Explorer
• I/O Setup wizard
• Netlist encryption to protect IP
• Library development/ management UI with P-cell editor
• C++ simulation model generation wizard
• Component de-embedding
• Calibration wizard
• SPICE macro-cell netlist import wizard
• IBIS model import wizard
• DXF/GDSII import and export
• Model Import Wizards
  • IBIS Models
  • SPICE netlists
  • C++ models
  • TouchStone models
  • W element models
  • Matlab models

2D Quasi-static EM Field Simulation (DesignerSI option)

Quasi-static 2D electromagnetic-field analysis with dynamic links to calculate:

• RLGC parameters for transmission lines
• Characteristic impedance (Z0) matrices
• Propagation speed, delay, attenuation
• Differential and common-mode parameters
• Near- and far-end crosstalk coefficients
• Surface roughness modeling
• Equivalent circuit models creation
  • Full Wave (Broadband) and Lumped model export
  • HSPICE®, HSPICE W Element (tabular frequency dependent)
  • SPICE, Simplorer® sml, Cadence DML
  • PSpice®, Spectre®, Intel LCF, IBIS ICM

Circuit Analyses

• Transient analysis
• QuickEye™ and VerifEye™ analyses for fast eye generation in high-speed channel design, bathtub curves, jitter, and eye masks
• Monte Carlo analysis supporting Spectre® and HSPICE® functionality.
• DC Analysis with automated convergence options
• Dynamic, parameterized EM co-simulation with HFSS™, Q3D Extractor®, and SIwave™

Model Support

• Native HSPICE® and Spectre® model support
  • CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe and GaAs foundry libraries.
• Behavioral and Electrical models
• Verilog-A Support
• Native IBIS 5.0 Support
• MOSFETs (BSIM4, HiSim, BSIMSOI, PSP, MET, …)
• BJTs (HiCUM, VBIC, HBT, Mextram, Modella, …)
• Diodess (SPICE, PIN, Microwave, JUNCAP, …)
• JFETs/MOSFETs (Statz, TOM3, Materka, EEHEMT, Parker-Skellern, Angelov, Curtice, …)
• Independent and Controlled sources
• Filters (Bessel, Butterworth, Elliptic, …)
• MOSFETs (BSIM4, HiSim, BSIMSOI, PSP, MET, …)
• SPICE import with encryption and IP protection
• Broadband interconnects: S and W elements
• Distributed transmission-line models and discontinuity models for:
  • Microstrip and Stripline
  • Suspended Stripline and Offset Stripline
  • Coplanar and Grounded Coplanar Waveguide
  • Slotline
• Multi-coupled transmission lines for arbitrary multi-level stackup configurations
• Matlab support