Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Cadence Design Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 June 2002
Motorola turns to
Cadence for mixed-signal design
Cadence has signed an agreement with Motorola to provide its Semiconductor Products Sector division with the Cadence AMS Designer simulation toolsuite for its next-generation SoC designs
The first Motorola product to benefit from AMS Designer is an HCS12 microcontroller, a mixed-signal SoC containing an HCS12 core (16bit), 10bit analogue-to-digital convertors, internal voltage regulator, PLL and as memory Flash, EEPROM and RAM. The Transportation and Standard Products Group within Motorola had been seeking a Verilog-AMS capable mixed-signal simulator that could enhance multiple aspects of the design process for very large and complex designs.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 June 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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It chose AMS Designer because Motorola felt it has the ability to improve the architectural design and simulation of the chip through to the design and implementation of the individual modules, within Motorola's existing digital verification environment.
"AMS Designer has allowed Motorola to enable top-down AMS design and to allow the simulation of big digital and analogue SoCs", said Kurt Neugebauer, CAD engineer for Motorola.
"It was particularly important that we gained the ability to design and simulate a circuit with both analogue and digital elements, such as a microcontroller with analogue interfaces".
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AMS Designer, with its use of the Verilog-AMS language, allows for a thorough and accurate simulation of the complex interfaces between the analogue and digital portions of the chip.
"With AMS Designer we are also able to mix the blocks at different levels of abstraction, whether they are digital or analogue, behavioural or device level, schematic or physical, depending on the progress of the design at the time of simulation", added Neugebauer.
"Cadence is the leading supplier of analogue/mixed-signal design solutions and this agreement with Motorola is testimony to the power of AMS Designer as a top-down simulation solution for very large and complex designs", said Lavi Lev, executive vice president and general manager, IC Solutions, Cadence Design Systems.
"Analogue/mixed-signal is rapidly becoming the major factor in SoC design.
Our customers require rapid time-to-market for these custom-integrated circuit designs and AMS Designer provides assistance at every step of the design process".
Cadence AMS Designer is based on the OVI standard Verilog-AMS language and incorporates VHDL-D, Spice and Spectre circuit simulator.
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