MunEDA WiCkeDTM Tool Suite
Circuit Analysis &
Verification Tools
MunEDA WiCkeDTM Circuit Analysis & Verification is a powerful integrated tool suite for circuit analysis and verification. It includes fast circuit analyses for performance-parameter sensitivity, operating regions, symmetry constraints, corners, process variation, local variation, mismatch, yield, aging & reliability, trimming, interactive optimization and more. Seamlessly integrated into standard circuit design environments and delivering a parallelized circuit simulation interface with numerous industry standard simulators simultaneously it enhances your existing design framework and methodology with best-in-class tools for circuit analysis and verification. This enhances the circuit design capabilities, efficiency, speed, quality and significantly reduces design time and effort.
- from older process nodes to newer technologies (IP reuse)
- from one foundry to another (second sourcing)
- from in-house process technologies to foundry technologies (going fabless)
Highlights of MunEDA WiCkeD™ Circuit Sizing & Optimization
- Powerful, fast and efficient automated circuit sizing and tuning including circuit variation
- Fast Gradient- & Sensitivity-based circuit optimiziation
- Enhanced global & stochastic circuit optimization
- Discrete circuit optimization on grid structures for FinFET, FD-SOI, Bipolar
- Capacity for very large and complex circuits (up to 100k-1M devices)
- Fully GUI driven or script-based batch-mode setup and execution
- Constraint management and full specification-driven circuit optimization
- Proven in wide range of technologies from 350nm CMOS down to 5nm FinFET advanced node PDK
Benefits of MunEDA WiCkeDTM Circuit Sizing & Optimization
- Automated performance tuning for all kind of custom analog and mixed-signal circuits (amplifier, transceiver, PLL, oscillators, mixer, data converter, filter and many more)
- Yield, Robustness & High-Sigma optimization for 3-sigma, 6-sigma, 9-sigma and beyond
- Trade-off improvement and optimization for performances, power, area, delay, noise
- Minimize power, area, noise, mismatch, parasitics effects, design time & effort
- Automated Yield, Robustness & Reliability Optimization
- Fully supports optimization for post-layout effects and parasitics
- Supports reliability constraints such as aging, degradation, margins, stress, and more
- Silicon proven in numerous industrial design and tape-out projects of leading worldwide semiconductor companies
MunEDA WiCkeD™ Tool Suite
Circuit Sizing, Optimization & Design Centering
MunEDA WiCkeD™ is the industry’s most advanced and powerful EDA tool suite for circuit sizing, performance & yield optimization and design centering. Proven in many industrial design and tape-out IC projects of world-leading semiconductor companies, WiCkeD™ helps the circuit designer to improve the circuit design efficiency, decrease the risk of hidden failures and increase the circuit quality considering statistical variation effects of modern process technologies.
Tools & Features
- FEO – Feasibility Analysis & Optimization defines and analyses circuit functionality based on the electrical, layout, area a.o. constraints running automatically netlist parametrization and optimizes and fulfills them automatically for best functionality
- DNO – Deterministic Nominal Optimization – Sensitivity based circuit optimization for nominal (typical) case and worst case operating corners
- GNO – Global Nominal Optimization – Statistical and stochastic circuit optimization based on sampling and design-space exploration search algorithms
- YOP – Yield Optimization – Automated circuit yield and robustness optimization for high sigma and performance margins
- REL – Reliability Option – includes and considers available reliability models and constraints for enhanced aging, degradation, area and other reliability influence factors
Highlights of MunEDA WiCkeD™ Circuit Sizing & Optimization
- Powerful, fast and efficient automated circuit sizing and tuning including circuit variation
- Fast Gradient- & Sensitivity-based circuit optimiziation
- Enhanced global & stochastic circuit optimization
- Discrete circuit optimization on grid structures for FinFET, FD-SOI, Bipolar
- Capacity for very large and complex circuits (up to 100k-1M devices)
- Fully GUI driven or script-based batch-mode setup and execution
- Constraint management and full specification-driven circuit optimization
- Proven in wide range of technologies from 350nm CMOS down to 5nm FinFET advanced node PDK
- Customer & silicon proven with many different foundry PDK
Benefits of MunEDA WiCkeDTM Circuit Sizing & Optimization
- Automated performance tuning for all kind of custom analog and mixed-signal circuits (amplifier, transceiver, PLL, oscillators, mixer, data converter, filter and many more)
- Yield, Robustness & High-Sigma optimization for 3-sigma, 6-sigma, 9-sigma and beyond
- Trade-off improvement and optimization for performances, power, area, delay, noise
- Minimize power, area, noise, mismatch, parasitics effects, design time & effort
- Automated Yield, Robustness & Reliability Optimization
- Fully supports optimization for post-layout effects and parasitics
- Supports reliability constraints such as aging, degradation, margins, stress, and more
- Silicon proven in numerous industrial design and tape-out projects of leading worldwide semiconductor companies
MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Sizing & Optimization Tool Suite can be ideally complemented by
- MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Porting & Migration Tools
- MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Analysis & Verification Tools
- MunEDA WiCkeD High-Sigma & Variation Tools
Tool Integration
Integration into standard industry design flow
- Can be used on all kind of custom analog and mixed-signal IC, IP cells and libraries
- Integrated and proven with numerous foundry PDK of world leading foundries (FinFET, FD-SOI, bulk CMOS, BiCMOS, Bipolar)
- Fully integrated into industrial standard circuit design environments with automated highlighting, selection, and backannotation of results from and to framework, netlists and schematics.
- Integrated with standard waveform viewers, extraction tools, job distribution tools.
- Easy integration of inhouse simulators and external scripts by open simulation API and scripting interface.
Several user modes available
- Full-integrated GUI mode with automatic parametrization, constraint setup and back-annotation
- Easy to invoke netlist-based stand-alone mode integration with your preferred simulator
- Scripting mode with full scriptable integration of all tools and functions for batch mode operation without GUI
MunEDA WiCkeD™ Tool Suite
Circuit Sizing, Optimization & Design Centering
MunEDA WiCkeD™ is the industry’s most advanced and powerful EDA tool suite for circuit sizing, performance & yield optimization and design centering. Proven in many industrial design and tape-out IC projects of world-leading semiconductor companies, WiCkeD™ helps the circuit designer to improve the circuit design efficiency, decrease the risk of hidden failures and increase the circuit quality considering statistical variation effects of modern process technologies.
Enhanced Circuit Design Exploration
- Full constraint- and specification-driven circuit design
- Fast circuit analysis and diagnosis functionalities for circuit sensitivities, constraints, parameters, performances, PVT corners, variation, yield, reliability and more
- Easy setup by automated generation of design constraints, GUI-driven parametrization, flexible import/export of performance setup and specification definitions
- Multiple test benches supported to run simultaneously and in parallel with one or different circuit simulators
- Parallel single- & multi-simulator Interface supporting industry standard SPICE simulation using multiple simulators from same or different vendors combined simultaneously
Advanced Circuit Design Analysis
- Analyze your design to meet required performance specifications for all PVT corners
- Fast PVT corners analysis and worst-case corner generation for all kind of process and environmental conditions simultaneously
- Analyze process variation statistical effects with advanced fast Monte-Carlo methods
- Detects and displays mismatch effects and parameter correlations
- Area constraints handling and area-power-performance trade-off analysis
Best In-class Circuit Verification
- Automated generation of structural circuit constraints by graph-based identification of many fundamental sub-structures (current mirrors, differential pairs, …)
- Verify your circuit designs for high robustness, yield and reliability
- Enhanced Monte Carlo features such as dynamic sampling, scaled sampling, quasiMC sampling
- Monte Carlo at worst case corners, contributor analysis and fast sensitivities
- Deterministic mismatch analysis and matching constraints handling
- Interactive circuit performance optimization
- Visualize results using standard waveform viewer integration
- Design result documentation
MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Analysis & Verification Tool Suite can be ideally complemented by
- MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Porting & Migration Tools
- MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Analysis & Verification Tools
- MunEDA WiCkeD High-Sigma & Variation Tools
Tool Integration
Integration into standard industry design flow
- Can be used on all kind of custom analog and mixed-signal IC, IP cells and libraries
- Integrated and proven with numerous foundry PDK of world leading foundries (FinFET, FD-SOI, bulk CMOS, BiCMOS, Bipolar)
- Fully integrated into industrial standard circuit design environments with automated highlighting, selection, and backannotation of results from and to framework, netlists and schematics.
- Integrated with standard waveform viewers, extraction tools, job distribution tools.
- Easy integration of inhouse simulators and external scripts by open simulation API and scripting interface.
Several user modes available
- Full-integrated GUI mode with automatic parametrization, constraint setup and back-annotation
- Easy to invoke netlist-based stand-alone mode integration with your preferred simulator
- Scripting mode with full scriptable integration of all tools and functions for batch mode operation without GUI
MunEDA WiCkeD™ Tool Suite
Circuit Sizing, Optimization & Design Centering
MunEDA WiCkeD™ is the industry’s most advanced and powerful EDA tool suite for circuit sizing, performance & yield optimization and design centering. Proven in many industrial design and tape-out IC projects of world-leading semiconductor companies, WiCkeD™ helps the circuit designer to improve the circuit design efficiency, decrease the risk of hidden failures and increase the circuit quality considering statistical variation effects of modern process technologies.
Basic, enhanced and advanced high-sigma variation analysis and verification tools features
- Full simulator accuracy for all High Sigma and Variation tools
- high capacity: scalable to large circuits (>50,000 devices)
- Sensitivity analysis for constraints, performances, variation and process parameters
- Fast Monte Carlo and Yield Analysis for low sigma (3 Sigma), high sigma (4-6 sigma) and ultra-high sigma (beyond 6 sigma)
- Fast Monte Carlo using scaled sampling and importance sampling
- Simulator-true Worst Case Analysis & Diagnosis for fast high and ultra-high sigma variation and yield analysis and verification
- Monte Carlo based mismatch and contributor analysis
- supports aging and degradation simulation for circuit life-time variation and yield
- Automated Yield & Robustness Optimization using the MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Sizing & Optimization Tools
Highlights of MunEDA WiCkeDTM Circuit High Sigma & Variation Tool Suite
- Covers the full sigma variation range from low (3 sigma), high (4-6 sigma) to ultra-high (6-12 sigma)
- Only simulation true and available solution for ultra-high sigma verification (6-12 sigma and higher)
- Selection of several Monte Carlo based and deterministic Worst Case analysis yield and robustness verification methods available, can also be combined
- Simulator-agnostic and hierarchical Monte Carlo and Worst Case Analysis
- Multi-testbench, multi-netlist, multi-simulator Monte-Carlo and deterministic Worst-Case Methods significantly enhances results and reduces number of simulations
- Silicon proven in many different circuit designs and process technologies e.g. SRAM, DRAM, Flash, EEPROM, MRAM, CRAM, Analog, Digital, Libraries, IP, Mixed-Signal from 350nm CMOS to 5nm FinFET
Benefits of MunEDA WiCkeDTM Circuit High Sigma & Variation Tool Suite
- 10x-100x times faster and less simulation effort for low sigma
- 100x-1,000x times faster and less simulation effort for high sigma
- 10,000,000x times faster and less simulation effort for ultra-high sigma (6-12 sigma and higher)
- Verifies 0-defect requirements in circuit design e.g. for automotive designs
- Scripting interface for batch-mode operations
- Includes reliability and degradation effects like aging, stress, temperature, operating conditions
- Full support of standard industrial SPICE & FastSPICE simulator programs
MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Analysis & Verification Tool Suite can be ideally complemented by
- MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Porting & Migration Tools
- MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Sizing & Optimization Tools
- MunEDA WiCkeD Circuit Analysis & Verification Tools
Tool Integration
Integration into standard industry design flow
- Can be used on all kind of custom analog and mixed-signal IC, IP cells and libraries
- Integrated and proven with numerous foundry PDK of world leading foundries (FinFET, FD-SOI, bulk CMOS, BiCMOS, Bipolar)
- Fully integrated into industrial standard circuit design environments with automated highlighting, selection, and backannotation of results from and to framework, netlists and schematics.
- Integrated with standard waveform viewers, extraction tools, job distribution tools.
- Easy integration of inhouse simulators and external scripts by open simulation API and scripting interface.
Several user modes available
- Full-integrated GUI mode with automatic parametrization, constraint setup and back-annotation
- Easy to invoke netlist-based stand-alone mode integration with your preferred simulator
- Scripting mode with full scriptable integration of all tools and functions for batch mode operation without GUI
Link – www.muneda.com