Overview
Today's large, more complex designs are creating a new level of demand for comprehensive design and verification of custom digital, memory, mixed-signal, and analog designs. Synopsys is the leader in mixed-signal verification, providing powerful tools that ensure proper operation between analog and digital elements and deliver superior predictability in design. Top foundries and customers trust Synopsys' solution to deliver the confidence they need for tape-out.
- Key Benefits
- Enables comprehensive design and verification of custom digital, memory, mixed-signal and analog designs
- Complete environment for launching multiple-level mixed-signal simulation
- Unified analog and digital waveform display with cross-probing and back-annotation
- Capacity and performance for full-chip verification of complex mixed-signal designs including large memories and SoCs
- Accuracy through use of common foundry-certified models
- Fits in any methodology with its support for all major SPICE netlist and model formats
- Multiple language support for mix and match of different language abstractions
Design Challenges
To meet the demands for more complex functionality and higher performance, today’s designs contain increasing amounts of custom components. Moreover with nanometer geometries, and high frequencies, even digital logic circuits start behaving like analog circuits. Recent advances in silicon technology have made it possible to design with significantly larger gate densities and higher clock frequencies.
Solution
Discovery AMS is Synopsys’ mixed-signal verification solution based on industry leading “golden” simulators: VCS®, HSPICE®, HSIM® and NanoSim®. Discovery AMS provides a comprehensive environment that enables verification of full-chip mixed-signal designs with built-in support for Verilog-AMS language defined by the Accellera 2.0 standard. It provides a unique combination of accuracy, performance and capacity with the flexibility of simulating design abstractions in any combination of Verilog, VHDL, SPICE, Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS.
Synopsys’ Cosmos solution, based on the Milkyway database, provides a complete graphical environment for design creation and exploration including simulation control, post layout analysis, back-annotation of parasitic data, and DRC/LVS correct full-custom layout.
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