Most EM Design Practices in place today have an inherit EM design throughput bottleneck. It takes too long to transform design-specific device specifications into real physical layouts and produce an accurate EM model for circuit design purposes. The demand for design-specific devices is steadily increasing as more design teams are added and/or the number of on-chip passives per design increases. As a result, only a limited number of EM device design iterations geared towards circuit optimization and tuning can be accomplished during any one design cycle.  Each EM design pass can take several days to several weeks! That’s too long!  At risk is missed project schedules, silicon re-spins to fix EM Integrity design flaws, and falling short of target performance objectives. What is needed is a new approach to EM Design that returns control of on-chip passives back to the design engineer.

Today, large RF fabless and Integrated Device Manufacturing (IDM’s) companies have streamlined their EM design practice by adopting PeakView as their EM Synthesis platform of choice. PeakView’s unprecedented level of automation and, its deep integration with the Cadence custom IC design environment (ease of use), and its accuracy have allowed these companies to broadly deploy to all design teams around the world. Removing the EM design bottleneck has improved the quality of their designs and enabled ambitious delivery schedules to be met.

PeakView EM Synthesis

· Fast, Accurate Full-Wave EM Engine        · Automatic Parameter Sweep Support
· Automatic Layout & Model Generation      · Poly/Ground Shield Support
· CMP Metal Fill & Wide Metal Slotting Support  · Extensive Lorentz PCircuit Library
· Parameterized PCircuit Extension Language  · Deep Integration with Cadence
 

Reports of a 10X or more EM throughput improvement are common. EM design passes that took several days to a several weeks, now takes several minutes. Designers quickly iterate through EM design to optimize overall circuit performance and reduce the risk of silicon iterations due to EM integrity flaws. Other benefits include slashing EM design costs and yielding more devices that achieve target performance. PeakView enables all designers to forgo mastering the complex and often times non-intuitive EM design and modeling. Using PeakView, all designers, novice and experienced alike achieve expert level EM design capability as part of their overall design practice.