Design Architect IC

Design Architect-IC is a powerful tool for capturing and netlisting design data integrated within a full custom IC design flow. Design Architect-IC works with the Mentor Graphics IC Station design tools to conceptualize, develop, simulate, verify, and produce even the most challenging full custom analog and mixed-signal IC designs quickly and accurately—the first time. The designer enjoys a consistent look and feel in one environment, whether creating schematics, block diagrams, symbols or HDL representations.

Schematic Capture, Simulation Setup and Analysis
Design Architect-IC shortens design cycles by creating a high productivity environment for schematic capture and simulation setup for A/MS and RF simulation and analysis. The ability to simulate analog components quickly and accurately is achieved through an interface with Mentor Graphics Eldo™ and Eldo RF, and ADVance™ MS products, creating a tight loop for capture, simulation and analysis of designs.

Verification and Simulation
Design Architect-IC interfaces seamlessly with Mentor Graphics simulation tools, enabling quick and accurate simulations of high transistor count processors, memory modules and mixed-signal designs. The result is shorter design cycles due to increased productivity.

Superior Modeling Capability
Design Architect-IC models digital, analog and mixed-signal blocks in a common environment using schematic representations C, VHDL, Verilog, SPICE, VHDL-AMS, or Verilog-AMS. Then it quickly enables simulation of the entire hierarchical design. Its ability to intelligently make trade-offs in design representations leads to faster and more accurate mixed-signal IC chip verification.

Features and Benefits

• Shortens design cycles by increasing productivity in schematic capture, simulation setup and analysis for analog/mixed-signal (A/MS) and radio frequency (RF) designs
• Leads to faster and more accurate mixed-signal IC verification
• Reduces hardware costs, leveraging cost-effective Linux workstations
• Enables higher schematic entry productivity, especially for designs with repeated circuitry

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