Software upgrade enables RFIC interoperability
Keysight Technologies has the latest release of its powerful Advanced Design System (ADS) software, ADS 2015. Featuring silicon RFIC interoperability with Cadence’s Virtuoso, GoldenGate-in-ADS, and a host of capabilities intended to increase design efficiency, the Keysight EEsof EDA software, ADS 2015, is changing how silicon RFIC and multi-technology module design is performed.
The convergence of GaAs and silicon design, coupled with the move to higher frequencies in silicon designs and their tighter integration into packages or modules, have increased the need for an interoperable co-design flow. Silicon RFIC interoperability in ADS enables users to edit and simulate schematic designs created in either Virtuoso or ADS.
Users also can open a Virtuoso IC layout cell view in ADS, instantiate the cell within a package or module, and then run an electromagnetic simulation on the complete design to validate its overall system performance.
ADS-Virtuoso interoperability works on top of a baseline Virtuoso process development kit (PDK). ADS 2015 is backed by broad PDK support from a number of RF Silicon foundries. Interoperability-enabled PDKs are available from TSMC, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, TowerJazz, IBM, and IHP, and have been validated by customers as part of Keysight’s alpha program.
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