Cadence® Spectre® FMC Analysis enables machine learning (ML)-based fast and comprehensive variation analysis using Monte Carlo simulations of complex I/Os, analog/mixed-signal (AMS) and RF blocks, memories, and bit and standard cells while maintaining necessary statistical accuracy. Spectre FMC Analysis is available in both the Spectre X Simulator and the Spectre Accelerated Parallel Simulator (APS) and allows you to distribute Monte Carlo simulation workloads to increase verification throughput.
Spectre Simulation Platform
Cadence® Spectre® FMC Analysis enables machine learning (ML)-based fast and comprehensive variation analysis using Monte Carlo simulations of complex I/Os, analog/mixed-signal (AMS) and RF blocks, memories, and bit and standard cells while maintaining necessary statistical accuracy. Spectre FMC Analysis is available in both the Spectre X Simulator and the Spectre Accelerated Parallel Simulator (APS) and allows you to distribute Monte Carlo simulation workloads to increase verification throughput.
As the industry’s leading solution for balancing high-performance and high-capacity needs with analog accuracy, the Spectre Simulation Platform encompasses multiple engines that let you move quickly and seamlessly between circuit-, block-, and system-level simulation and verification tasks. The platform's foundation is a unified set of technologies shared by all the simulators – the parser, device models, Verilog-A behavioral modeling, input data formats, output data formats, etc. – thereby guaranteeing consistent and accurate evaluation methods and results regardless of the simulator selected.
The Spectre X Simulator delivers best-in-class single-core simulation and solves large-scale verification simulation challenges with up to 10X speed and 5X capacity improvements, as well as scalable and massively parallel simulation for cloud computing.
Spectre Accelerated Parallel Simulator (APS) provides 10X-100X the single-thread performance with out-of-box SPICE accuracy and convergence while enabling high-precision simulation for large, post-layout analog designs and subsystems without compromising accuracy.
The Spectre FX Simulator uses a groundbreaking architecture that employs innovative FastSPICE techniques, including advanced partitioning and RC reduction algorithms, to deliver up to 3X performance with equal or better accuracy versus the latest FastSPICE products.
The complete portfolio is rounded out by Spectre AMS Designer, Cadence’s mixed-signal, mixed-language, mixed-level, functional, behavioral, gate-level, and transistor-level simulator.
In addition to individual engines, Spectre simulation technology is well integrated into other Cadence technology platforms, including Xcelium™ Logic Simulation, Liberate™ Trio Characterization Suite, Legato™ Reliability Solution, Virtuoso® ADE Suite, Voltus™-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution, and the Virtuoso RF Solution, to provide the industry’s most comprehensive cross-domain simulation solution.
Spectre FMC Analysis
Spectre FMC Analysis uses advanced statistical and ML techniques for complete design space exploration so you can meet IC design yield targets. Achieve the right statistical accuracy with the minimum number of Monte Carlo simulations to ensure designs work on manufactured wafers.
You can run the tool from the command line or from Virtuoso ADE Suite to verify complex I/Os, AMS and RF blocks, and memories. The Virtuoso ADE Suite can also be leveraged for distributed processing of Monte Carlo simulations across a compute farm or cloud.
Spectre FMC Analysis also is available with Liberate Trio Characterization Suite for optimizing bit and standard cells, and Tempus™ Timing Solution for static timing analysis (STA).
It is used with the Spectre X or Spectre APS simulators, integral parts of the Spectre Simulation Platform, and is built on the same infrastructure technology as all members of the Spectre family of simulators.
Benefits
Explore and debug worst-case design failures to avoid expensive design rework by meeting 3-to-6+ sigma yield requirements.
Accuracy and performance
Support for multiple use-models and flows
The Spectre FMC Analysis supports customized user needs by supporting multiple use models and flows for high-sigma analysis on I/Os, AMS and RF blocks, memories, and bit and standard cells.
Ease of Use and Debugging
Spectre FMC Analysis’s ML-based technology enables fast exploration and learning of a very large sample space. This allows the designers to quickly identify the worst-case samples to avoid design failures.
Scalability
Spectre FMC Analysis offers increased scalability through massively parallel distributed processing capability, scaling up to thousands of cores in a compute farm or the cloud. This enables large sample space exploration to be more efficient for high-sigma analysis and yield verification. Distributed processing can be done with both command line and Virtuoso ADE Suite use models.
In summary, with the Spectre FMC Analysis, the designers accomplish high-yield verification and meet high-sigma analysis requirements much faster and more efficiently without compromising accuracy.