Overview
Circuit Explorer works within leading analog and mixed-signal design environments to bring analog designs and digital cell libraries to their peak performance and robustness. Circuit Explorer’s Advanced Analysis can quickly simulate designs over all measurements and corners as well as sweep device sizes allowing the user to gain a deep understanding of the conditions that affect circuit performance. Circuit Explorer’s Optimization has combined automation with end-user control to allow designers to be fully in command of the optimization, while removing tedious and time consuming manual modifications to transistor sizing.
- Key Benefits
- Enhance a design's predictability and manageability
- Improve overall circuit performance and robustness
- Increase returns on investment by leveraging an extensive library of Circuit Explorer generated circuit solutions
- Improve design efficiencies through the optimal use of resources
- Increase designer productivity
- Reduce or eliminate the need for additional silicon re-spins
- IP Explorer Trade-offs and Analysis
Design Challenges
Analog designers and digital library developers currently spend much of their time in a manual optimization loop, where they must continually modify circuit device variables to achieve what they feel is the best result possible. This design bottleneck accounts for a significant portion of the design time, and can adversely affect time-to-market, cost, re-designs, and ultimately, circuit performance.
Solution
Synopsys Circuit Explorer is an innovative software product family that represents a complete, flexible and modular environment for analyzing and optimizing integrated circuit designs. By streamlining design workflow, it brings speed, efficiency and understanding to many of the slow and arduous tasks previously associated with transistor level design. Circuit Explorer also provides a high value feature called IP Explorer, a performance tradeoff exploration tool.
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