Put a tiger into your simulator!
Put a tiger into your simulator!
VRFJ™ achieves inductor model netlist reduction by 80% and slashes RFIC non-linear
simulation times by 90%
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 4, 2008 -- Agilent Technologies Inc.
(NYSE: A) today announced Jivaro-for-GoldenGate, a parasitic model
order-reduction tool designed for use with the company’s GoldenGate RF
simulator software. Jivaro-for-GoldenGate is expected to enhance RFIC
simulation speed and capacity with negligible loss in accuracy.
“Efficiently handling circuit simulation with an increasingly large
number of extracted parasitics has pushed the envelope of simulator
technology,” said Paul Colestock, RFIC marketing manager with Agilent’s
EEsof EDA division. “Unlike their digital counterparts, RFIC designers need
to simulate circuits with self and mutual inductance in addition to parasitic
resistance and capacitance. This creates a simulation-capacity requirement
that is either unsupportable with current hardware or requires unreasonable
simulation times. Combining GoldenGate with Jivaro-for-GoldenGate solves
this problem.”
Jivaro-for-GoldenGate is designed in cooperation with edXact, a
company that provides high-precision, high-performance technology for backend physical verification. edXact’s Jivaro-A netlist-reduction engine is
the core of this new RFIC design software.
Tailored to the challenging demands of large, complex RFIC designs,
Agilent’s GoldenGate is the leading RFIC simulation and analysis solution
featuring unique harmonic-balance capabilities. Combining Agilent’s
GoldenGate simulator with Jivaro-for-GoldenGate increases simulation
capacity, reduces memory requirements and boosts simulation speed when
simulating large parasitic-dominated post-layout netlists.
“Jivaro-for-GoldenGate fills the gap between circuit extraction and
circuit simulation created by an increased number of parasitic components
(resistance,capacitance, self and mutual inductance) required to model the
physical reality of circuit interconnects, substrates or packages,” said
Mathias Silvant, edXact president. “Jivaro-for-GoldenGate delivers
simulation speed and capacity with negligible loss of accuracy by optimizing
the parasitic models against the need to keep the accuracy of the netlist
predictable at a very high level.”
For more information about Jivaro-for-GoldenGate visit
www.agilent.com/find/eesof-goldengate-jivaro.
To request a demo of Jivaro-for-GoldenGate, visit
www.agilent.com/find/eesof-goldengate-demo-pr .
A high-resolution image of Agilent's Jivaro-for-GoldenGate software
is available at www.agilent.com/find/eesof-jivaro-for-goldengate_images.
