Magma FineSim Pro v2009.06.02

Description

FineSim Pro defines a new paradigm in full-chip circuit-level simulation, enabling the simulation of the most challenging analog/mixed-signal SoCs with SPICE accuracy and unprecedented performance. Diagram * Combination of accuracy and performance in a single executable allows large, mixed-signal designs to be simulated with very accurate SPICE and fast-SPICE solving techniques. This provides complete control of speed- versus-accuracy tradeoffs throughout the entire design. * Multi-CPU simulation enabled through Magma’s Native Parallel Technology TM delivers silicon-accurate results for very large complex systems (5M transistors and more) such as wireless systems on chip (SoCs) and full-chip memory designs. * Electrically Exact Models TM (E2M) dramatically improve simulation performance by orders of magnitude with virtually no loss in accuracy compared to fast SPICE. Typically, analog and digital blocks are verified independently with different simulation products that vary in accuracy. When analog and digital blocks are combined in one simulation, verifying them together usually requires some additional modeling techniques that only approximate circuit behavior. With this type of approach it is very common for engineers to spend a significant amount of time interpreting the results. In some cases engineers waste time chasing down false design errors; more often the result is that real design problems are missed. As mixed-signal designs increase in size and grow more complex, the ability to achieve correct functional verification becomes very challenging. Verification becomes virtually impossible for current simulation solutions once fully-extracted parasitics are introduced. FineSim Pro is the first product that allows designers to functionally verify mixed-signal systems on a chip (SoCs) seamlessly using a single engine and without the overhead of traditional solutions. In addition to enabling the designer to work with detailed parasitic information, FineSim Pro allows complete control of accuracy-versus-performance tradeoffs with a few simple control statements. Simulation Accuracy and Performance FineSim Pro contains advanced fast-SPICE circuit solvers that are guaranteed to provide the most accurate results for very large and complex mixed-signal designs. As the industry’s first single-executable circuit-level simulator, FineSim Pro allows the designer to take advantage of multiple circuit-solving techniques, such as hierarchical simulation recognition for memory structures, or multi-rate techniques for sensitive analog circuits. In addition, FineSim Pro includes FineSim SPICE, a full SPICE engine, for use during full-chip simulation when SPICE accuracy is required.

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