Virtuoso Studio

Advanced Node

Advanced-node processes challenge custom/analog designers with the complex interdependency of manufacturing and variability, on top of increasing power and performance specifications. The Cadence Virtuoso advanced-node platform has innovative capabilities that enable designers to take full advantage of the silicon at these process nodes.

The Virtuoso advanced-node platform improves individual point tools to handle these challenges while enabling new design methodologies that allow rapid layout prototyping, in-design signoff, and close collaboration between schematic and layout designers—essential to designing efficiently at advanced-process nodes.

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Heterogeneous Design

Combining different types of semiconductors into a single system allows size and power reduction while providing higher-performance RF, photonics, and wired interfaces. Integrating chiplets helps implement circuits with individual but optimal processes, leading to overall cost reduction and faster time-to-market. Numerous advances in Virtuoso Studio allow designers to meet heterogeneous design challenges such as multi-fabric co-analysis of electrical, electromagnetic, and photonic signals, as system-level integration and verification, including power and thermal analysis.

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Migration

Virtuoso Studio pioneers the next era of migration tools for custom IC design. The migration of designs across process nodes has evolved over many tool generations. To assist their advanced-node customers, the world’s foundries have teamed up with Cadence to produce new techniques in moving schematic and layouts efficiently to new nodes and using updated analysis tools to ensure optimal results.;

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Photonics

Built upon the Virtuoso Studio, the electronic/photonic design automation (EPDA) environment supports monolithic (single chip with both electronic and photonic components) and hybrid (3D-IC stacks with a traditional electronics IC on top of a photonics IC) approaches. The comprehensive EPDA flow provides schematic capture, circuit simulation, and schematic-driven layout implementation, as well as support for complex photonic SKILL PCells and advanced photonic layout generators. It also includes co-design of the electronic and photonic components for hybrid systems.

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RF Design

The demand for more sophisticated wireless connected devices is driving the need for a new generation of high-performance, cost-sensitive silicon products, often implemented in highly integrated, multi-device, and multi-fabric modules.

Cadence Virtuoso RF Solution 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). This powerful design environment supports RFIC, RF module, and package co-design to eliminate design failures from the manual translation of data.

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