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Analog,
Mixed-Signal and /RF (AMS/RF) design teams use the AFS Platform for
block design and characterization through full-circuit verification. AFS Platform
users realize a 2x or more overall improvement in
efficiency versus traditional simulation tools that trade off accuracy,
performance, capacity, and functionality.
Block Design
and Characterization includes rapid design iterations and
complete characterization of circuit building blocks. For RF blocks it
includes the only true SPICE accurate periodic analyses. In this
application, the AFS Platform
delivers:
- Fastest transient analysis iterations
(5x-10x)
- Fastest periodic analysis iterations
(5x-10x, >100K element capacity)
- Detailed Device Noise Analysis (DNA)
- Rigorous PVT corner and variation analyses
Complex-Block
Verification includes computationally intensive verification
tasks from pre- and post-layout simulation to variation, noise, and RF
analysis on circuits such as PLLs, DLLs, ADCs, SerDes, Tx chains, Rx
chains, and memory interfaces. In this application, the AFS Platform
delivers:
- Fastest true SPICE accurate transient
results (5x-20x)
- Parasitic performance impact analysis
(detailed RLCK)
- Device noise performance impact analysis
(including ADCs & PLLs)
- Accelerated digital logic (co-simulation)
Full-Circuit
Verification targets top-level analog/RF circuits reaching
>10M total elements. Verification tasks include DC operating point
analysis, and true SPICE accurate performance simulations including
package models and transmission lines and digital logic co-simulation.
In this application, the AFS Platform
delivers:
- >10M element DC operating point
analysis
- Targeted performance simulation
- Inter-block validation (electrical rule
checking)
- Silicon-package verification
- Top-level digital logic co-simulation
Here are a few examples of nanometer
AMS/RF Verification with the AFS Platform
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