Overview
Highest Accuracy and Capacity Electromagnetic Solver for Silicon IC Designs
The Cadence EMX Planar 3D Solver is an electromagnetic (EM) solver for high-frequency and high-speed integrated circuits (ICs). It allows designers to accurately model complex layouts down to 2nm. It considers all the parasitic coupling effects and reduces design cycle time. The EMX Planar 3D Solver’s unique emphasis is on uncompromised accuracy, coupled with capacity, speed, and design flow automation. The EMX Planar 3D Solver seamlessly integrates with the Cadence Virtuoso platform and Virtuoso Studio.
Key Benefits
Complete Automation with Uncompromised Speed and Accuracy
Gold-Standard EM Accuracy
Most accurate EM solver available, successfully used in 1000s of tapeouts across every node and for designs up to 300GHz
Highest Capacity Modeling Engine
Accurately models design complexity that other EM solvers simply fail to complete
Unique Flow Integration
Integration with Virtuoso Studio offers unique design flow automation and unparalleled functionality for chip-level “EM-aware” signoff
Blazing Fast
The EMX Planar 3D Solver has the fastest EM modeling engine and can model extremely complex designs at a fraction of the time that other solvers require
Foundry EM Tool of Choice
Chosen by most popular foundries and characterized for most process nodes down to 2nm with excellent correlation against foundry-measured silicon data
Features
Highest Capacity Solver for Chip-Level EM Analysis and Signoff
Cross-Fabric Co-Simulation
New surface formulation option allows efficient handling of package layers and extends EMX Solver’s applicability to cross-fabric designs, offering for the first time true chip-package co-simulation of EM coupling effects.
Flow Integration for EM Signoff
Unique flow integration with Quantus Extraction through the Virtuoso RF Solution accurately captures EM coupling effects for complex SoC designs, allowing “EM-aware” parasitic extraction and signoff and reducing risk from EM crosstalk.
Massively Parallel Modeling Engine
The EMX Planar 3D Solver can model structures with 100s of ports. The modeling engine is massively parallel and ideal for computing farms as it supports MPI installations and can distribute jobs across multiple servers.
Supports Multiple Model Types
All models generated by the EMX Planar 3D Solver are passive and causal. Natively, the EMX Planar 3D Solver produces S-parameter model files, lumped element models, and state space models, with no convergence issues for the simulators.
Advanced Fabrication Effects
The EMX Planar 3D Solver can accurately model advanced-node process fabrication effects, including width- and spacing-dependent effects and double patterning.
CUSTOMER STORIES
See What Customers Have to Say About EMX Planar 3D Solver
Time-efficient and accurate electromagnetic modeling is pivotal for minimizing the number of design iterations associated with RF/mmWave-based projects. Keeping time to market as short as possible is of prime importance...
Dr. Greg U’Ren, RF technology director, X-FAB
Simulation of electromagnetic models from EMX Planar 3D Solver together with parasitic extraction information from the Cadence Quantus Extraction Solution, combined in a single, unified cell view within the Cadence Virtuoso RF solution, made post-layout simulations much more efficient.
BJ Kuo, CEO, Gear Radio Electronics