Latest software accelerates design verification

Latest software accelerates design verification

The latest release of GoldenGate 2012 RFIC simulation, verification, and analysis software offers RFIC designers a host of technology enhancements for accelerated design verification, extended design-for-manufacturing solutions and improved links to system design. Additionally, new licensing models offer users greater purchasing flexibility.

Its new technology enhancements allow users to set up distributed simulations, run them with unmatched performance, and display and analyze massive amounts of data. The tool offers users an extended “parallel simulation license” at a fraction of the cost of the base GoldenGate simulator license. The license is supported in any scenario launching a parallel simulation (and ADE-XL in Cadence Virtuoso).

The new GoldenGate 2012 X-parameters feature allows designers to capture the nonlinear behavior of active components such as amplifiers and save the data for quick use in simulation models in RF system or circuit designs, while also hiding all intellectual property. GoldenGate 2012 features improvements in RFIC simulation, support for advanced analysis and millimeter-wave design, and wireless standard-compliant verification.

Another enhancement in the area of design-for-manufacturing is the integration of GoldenGate 2012 into the MunEDA WiCkeD tool suite for the analysis, sizing and modeling of circuits. The integration enables automatic compensation of process variations and parasitic influences, and helps reduce the overall power consumption and noise in RF circuits.(Contact company for pricing — available Aug. 2012.)

By Christina Nickolas

Agilent Technologies , Santa Clara , CA
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