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Cadence Encounter Timing System With Encounter® Timing System, designers benefit from a consistent, integrated, multi-CPU–enabled, static timing analysis (STA) environment for place-and-route optimization and signoff verification, leading to faster design closure and better flow convergence. To boost productivity, Encounter Timing System helps designers quickly analyze and debug multimillion-gate designs while ensuring that design intent is preserved. Global timing debug pinpoints the root cause of timing and constraint issues at the push of a button. Sophisticated delay calculation ensures accuracy and performance. Using the effective current source model (ECSM) for advanced timing, power, signal integrity (SI), and statistical delay modeling, Encounter Timing System delivers the most accurate prediction of actual silicon performance. With a competitive edge over traditional delay modeling, designers...

Complex Analog/Mixed-Signal System-on-Chip Designs Questa ADMS gives designers a comprehensive environment for verifying complex analog/mixed-signal System-on-Chip designs. ADMS combines four high performance simulation engines in one efficient tool: Eldo® for general purpose analog simulations, Questa® for digital simulations, ADiT™ for fast transistor-level simulations and Eldo RF for modulated steady state simulation. Analog and mixed-signal SoC designs combine analog and digital content more tightly than ever before. They increasingly depend on integrated analog blocks such as A to D and D to A converters, phase-locked loops, and adaptive filters. This increased level of integration puts tremendous pressure on designers. Traditional design tool flows force designers to develop analog and digital subsystems in isolation, delaying the integration of these components until IC...

Computer Simulation Technology (CST), a world leader in the computer simulation of radiated emissions and susceptibility, announces major workflow improvements for EMC simulation at IEEE EMC 2010.CST\’s complete technology for 3D EM simulation will be further enhanced by tighter integration of CST CABLE STUDIO(tm) (CST CS) and the CST MICROWAVE STUDIO(r) (CST MWS) TLM solver in CST STUDIO SUITE(tm) 2011. Users of CST STUDIO SUITE 2011, interested in the analysis of radiated emissions and susceptibility, will benefit from a single unified environment for all EMC related modeling tasks, including greatly simplified model set up and simulation. The CST MWS TLM solver (Microstripes) and CST CS provide powerful features for real world EMC analysis including coupled simulations which enable large system...

Complete Set of Tools and CAD Support LP Wizard is a complete set of tools for building and managing your CAD library and documentation. LP Wizard is the only CAD library generation tool officially approved by IPC to match the IPC-7351B standard. A full featured 10-day evaluation version is available. LP Wizard supports Expedition Enterprise, PADS Layout, Board Station, Allegro, OrCAD PCB Editor, and any other CAD tool that supports PADS ASCII import.Build Library Parts Quickly and Easily Flexible template based component families make it incredibly easy to build accurate lead-free ROHS CAD library parts. Starter library comes with 10,000 different component packages including 5,000 connectors in a CAD neutral format that can be easily translated to your personal CAD...

Catapult C Synthesis Overview Reduce the Time to Verified RTL Traditional hardware design methods that require hand-written RTL development and debugging are too time-consuming and error prone for today’s complex designs. Catapult C Synthesis empowers designers to use industry standard ANSI C++ and SystemC to describe functional intent and move up to a more productive abstraction level. From these high-level descriptions, Catapult C Synthesis generates production quality RTL. Synthesizes ANSI C++ and SystemC to production quality RTL Targets algorithms, control-logic and interfaces for full-chip synthesis Dramatically shortens the path to verified RTL Making ESL Design and Verification a Reality Web Series: Join us for a for a series of complimentary web seminars that explores the many dimensions of ESL design,...

dvanced Technology Meets the needs of mid-sized to large electronics companies with complex PCB designs Eliminates the burden of managing multiple tools, with its common database and user interface Supports globally dispersed design teams with real-time collaboration Maintains data integrity – from concept to manufacturing Reduces design cycle time and manufacturing costs, while increasing productivity Integration As an Expedition Enterprise project evolves from concept to finished product, the database is always synchronized, notifying the engineer and designer of changes as they occur, eliminating unnecessary and costly design iterations. Expedition Enterprise is integrated with DMS™ (Data Management System) and CES (Constraint Editing System), providing a central infrastructure for component libraries, design data versioning and management, design reuse, where used, entry and...

GoldenGate’s unique algorithms are optimized for the challenging demands of modern complex radio design. These demands require a simulator with capabilities not previously available. GoldenGate addresses these demands with the ability to converge on complete transceivers with the speed to enable full characterization prior to tape out. MIXEr ANALYSIS Mixers are the fundamental block for upconversion or downconversion of signals in a transceiver. GoldenGate efficiently ana- lyzes the effects of this frequency translation by accurately measuring the conversion gain, noise figure (with and without blocking signals), small signal noise, linearity (ip2/ip3) and spurious responses. Furthermore, modern low-if architectures require the lo and carrier frequencies to be very close together. ip3 for low-IF mixer GoldenGate’s harmonic-balance capabilities allow the designer to...

Advanced Design System 2011.05 Release Notes For general information about Advanced Design System (ADS), visit Agilent EEsof product web-page at•http://www.agilent.com/find/eesof-products Key Features Printing•There have been a number of improvements to printing for Schematic, Layout, and Data Display. In most cases, these improvements are for all platforms, while some improvements are for Linux and Solaris to make them equivalent to the Windows platform. ◦You can now easily create pdf and postscript files on all platforms.◦rinting now correctly handles colors, fill patterns, transparency levels, and line thickness.◦The print output will now be scaled properly to take advantage of the full width of the paper, eliminating excess white space.◦When you select an area to print, it will now be output correctly clipping any...

Means of synthesis of high-performance FPGA-type PLD and FPGA, optimized in terms of ease of use and high quality results. Supports a multi-million-programmable systems-on-Chip (FPSoC) the last generation. Precision RTL Synthesis receive input on the project as a description in VHDL or Verilog and implements logic synthesis with the defined limits, based on built-in libraries of manufacturers. The package has a built-in static timing analysis, the ability to analyze and debug in an incremental mode, and an intuitive user interface makes it easy to manage the process of fusion as an experienced engineer, and beginner. Precision RTL Synthesis includes a unique optimization algorithm – Architecture Signature Extraction (ASE), which automatically selects the most critical in the project area, limiting the...

NI Circuit Design Suite software improves the PCB design process by integrating capture, simulation, and layout into a single toolchain with NI Multisim and Ultiboard software. National Instruments transforms the way engineers and scientists around the world design, prototype, and deploy systems for test, control, and embedded design applications. Using NI open graphical programming software and modular hardware, customers at more than 30,000 companies annually simplify development, increase productivity, and dramatically reduce time to market. From testing next-generation gaming systems to creating breakthrough medical devices, NI customers continuously develop innovative technologies that impact millions of people. About NI Circuit Design Suite Power Pro Multisim easily captures schematics that are immediately ready to be simulated. With interactive simulation, Multisim VIs help...