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FineSim Pro defines a new paradigm in full-chip circuit-level simulation, enabling the simulation of the most challenging analog/mixed-signal SoCs with SPICE accuracy and unprecedented performance.
Typically, analog and digital blocks are verified independently with different simulation products that vary in accuracy. When analog and digital blocks are combined in one simulation, verifying them together usually requires some additional modeling techniques that only approximate circuit behavior. With this type of approach it is very common for engineers to spend a significant amount of time interpreting the results. In some cases engineers waste time chasing down false design errors; more often the result is that real design problems are missed.
As mixed-signal designs increase in size and grow more complex, the ability to achieve correct functional verification becomes very challenging. Verification becomes virtually impossible for current simulation solutions once fully-extracted parasitics are introduced.
FineSim Pro is the first product that allows designers to functionally verify mixed-signal systems on a chip (SoCs) seamlessly using a single engine and without the overhead of traditional solutions. In addition to enabling the designer to work with detailed parasitic information, FineSim Pro allows complete control of accuracy-versus-performance tradeoffs with a few simple control statements.
FineSim Pro contains advanced fast-SPICE circuit solvers that are guaranteed to provide the most accurate results for very large and complex mixed-signal designs. As the industry’s first single-executable circuit-level simulator, FineSim Pro allows the designer to take advantage of multiple circuit-solving techniques, such as hierarchical simulation recognition for memory structures, or multi-rate techniques for sensitive analog circuits. In addition, FineSim Pro includes FineSim SPICE, a full SPICE engine, for use during full-chip simulation when SPICE accuracy is required.
Included in FineSim Pro and FineSim SPICE, Magma’s Native Parallel Technology enables SPICE-accurate analysis of very large complex digital designs such as memories and complex analog designs using multiple CPUs. Designers can quickly and easily apply appropriate accuracy settings to their designs without the unnecessary setup options required with conventional approaches. Leveraging multi-CPU architectures not only improves FineSim Pro’s simulation throughput, but also enables FineSim Pro to handle very large designs.
FineSim Pro provides a unique mechanism for improving the simulation of large digital blocks. Through Magma’s revolutionary E2M technique, the simulation of large digital sections of a design have been shown to speed up significantly while maintaining SPICE-like accuracy. Performance improvements of 50X to 100X and more compared to normal fast-SPICE have been achieved on very large standard-cell blocks with minimal loss in accuracy.
FineSim Pro has an optional package for dynamic power analysis as well as electromigration (EM) analysis. FineSim Pro accurately calculates peak, average and root-mean-square current values and graphically displays the results for a quick visual analysis.
FineSim Pro supports standard SPICE models, such as BSIM3, BSIM4, BSIM-SOI, Phillips MM9, Gummel-Poon models, VBIC 1.2, Philips Mextram 503, Diode and RLC models and inverted inductance.
The FineSim Pro Analysis Option can identify functional failures caused byexcessive IR drop on power nets.
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