Quickly Verify Complex Full-Chip Analog and Mixed-Signal Designs

The Cadence Spectre X Simulator enables you to solve large-scale verification simulation challenges in complex analog, RFIC, and mixed-signal blocks and subsystems, while maintaining the accuracy expected of the Spectre simulation family. Spectre X Simulator allows you to massively distribute simulation workloads for greater speed and capacity.

The Spectre X Simulator performs SPICE-accurate simulation with fast convergence, scalable performance, and high capacity, including a new mode for handling the largest system simulations. It is tightly integrated with the Cadence Virtuoso Studio, allowing engineers to capture and pass design intent from the simulation environment, and it provides all the transistor-level analysis capabilities of the Spectre Circuit Simulator.

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Right Balance of SPICE Precision, Performance, and Capacity

Taking advantage of the latest mathematical solving techniques, combined with maximizing new hardware potential, the simulator’s approach to constructing the solution matrix and efficient equation solving has allowed Cadence to redefine what an analog circuit simulator can do in terms of performance, capacity, and distribution capabilities without compromising on accuracy standards.

Scalability

Turns simulation days into hours or minutes with massively parallel simulation that scales up to 256 cores on multi-CPU hardware and can leverage GPU hardware in a compute farm or on the cloud

Improved Performance

10X performance improvements across a large spectrum of designs while maintaining Spectre golden accuracy

Increased Capacity

Up to 5X increased capacity over SPICE simulators to address the analysis needs of advanced- node and mixed-signal designs

Redefining Analog Circuit Simulation Performance and Capacity

The Spectre X Simulator is built on the same infrastructure technology as all members of the Spectre family of simulators to provide the same proven simulation results.

  • Smart presets provide the right balance of accuracy and performance
  • Massive parallelization capabilities to harness high-core-count machines and GPU machines at a much higher utilization rate, significantly improving throughput for the largest designs
  • Integrates with all custom design simulation technologies in the Spectre platform, including Spectre AMS Designer, Spectre FMC Option, Legato Reliability Solution, and Voltus-XFi Custom Power Integrity Solution
  • Supports all RF analyses with scalable and massively parallel simulation for
  • harmonic balance analyses
  • Built-in electromigration and IR (EM-IR) drop analysis as well as static and dynamic design checks
  • Supports design flows in the Virtuoso ADE Product Suite, Liberate Characterization tools, Virtuoso RF Solution, and Cadence Photonic Solution

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Optimized Circuit Simulation Technology for Wide Variety of Complex Designs and Systems

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