SAN JOSE, Calif., June 5, 2019 — Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced the Cadence Spectre X Simulator, a massively parallel circuit simulator designed to provide up to 10X performance gains, while maintaining the accuracy customers have come to expect. The new Spectre X simulator can solve 5X larger designs when compared to previous simulation solutions, enabling customers to effectively simulate circuits containing millions of transistors and billions of parasitics in a post-layout verification flow.

For more information on the new Spectre X Simulator, please visit www.cadence.com/go/SpectreX.

The new Spectre X simulator offers customers the following benefits:

• Proven Accuracy: The Spectre X simulator delivers the same golden accuracy as previous generations of Spectre simulators, which analog designers have relied on for years. For users that want to trade off accuracy for performance, the Spectre X simulator provides a single control that lets users easily determine the right accuracy/performance tradeoff needed for their particular design.
• Massively Distributed Simulation: The solution enables users to distribute time-domain and frequency-domain simulations on hundreds of CPUs and take advantage of the scalability of data center or cloud infrastructure.
• Faster Runtime: Utilizing better numerical techniques and modern compute hardware, the Spectre X simulator offers up to 10X faster simulation on 5X larger designs without sacrificing accuracy.
• Ease of Adoption: Built on the principles that have made the Spectre circuit simulator the industry gold standard, the Spectre X simulator uses the existing foundry-certified device models without modification. Additionally, the Spectre X simulator supports existing Spectre design flows such as the Cadence Virtuoso ADE Product Suite, Virtuoso RF Solution, Legato Reliability Solution, and Liberate Characterization Suite.
• Mixed-Signal Support: The Spectre X simulator is tightly integrated with the Cadence Xcelium™ Parallel Logic Simulation for mixed-signal verification using Spectre AMS Designer, providing full support for mixed-signal behavioral languages and real number modeling methodologies.

“Analog verification is increasingly critical for our advanced designs targeted for the automotive, industrial and broad-based industries. We’ve participated in the early adoption program for the Spectre X Simulator using several designs, and have seen up to 10X performance gains with Spice-level accuracy. We look forward to using the Spectre X Simulator for our production designs that require performance and capacity improvements,” Nobuhiko Goto, Director of Design Automation Department, Shared R&D Division 2, Broad-based Solution Business Unit, Renesas Electronics Corporation said.

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Source: Cadence