Fully automatic. Optimization through layout automation! Complete, mixed-signal, multilevel layout automation. Pipeline ADC's. DAC's, PLL's, logic all at once. Simulate layouts, not schematics.
Feb 09: Timing based place & route 100K cells per block. Digital cell generator
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Automatic and manual IC Design Environment

  • Complete automation from optimization to final layout.
  • Unified schematic/layout built from scratch on OA
  • OA = Compatible / coexists with Virtuoso
  • Ridiculously simple. Install and run in minutes
  • No CAD effort needed. Techfiles included, but customizable.
  • We thrive on small feature sizes, such as 130n to 45n

Schematic Editor

  • OA based: Switch between competitors and Arails
  • Controls layout devices and connectivity
  • Create layout matching, dynamic/static spacing, etc
  • Simulation test-benches built in, saves with schematic
  • Accurate simulations: SA, SB, AD, etc. extracted on the fly, even when cell is flattened and merged!
  • Dummies automatically added to schematic from layout
  • Cross-probes with layout and waveform

Simulation Environment

  • Supports commercial simulators (Hspice, Msim, etc)
  • Simulate parasitic extracted values AT ALL TIMES
  • Multiple simulator, analysis, corners
  • Backannotates voltages and currents to schematic
  • Passes wire sizing (EM, IR drop) to router
  • Supports FREE simulators (gnucap & irsim)

Circuit Optimization

  • Multiple analysis, testbenches, corners
  • User defined measurements
  • Over 30 built-in measurements, such as gain & phase margin, overshoot, settling, THD, etc
  • Testbench examples: Amp, PLL, VCO, etc
  • Click onto parameter to optimize
  • Simple results filtration and loading into schematic
  • Batches off to multiple machines

Digital cell generation

  • Converts digital cells to parameterized cells
  • Automatically folds and adjusts sizes to meet timing
  • Changes are all reflected in schematic
  • Characterized on the fly based on slope, load, etc
  • Generates router friendly layouts
  • Complete digital area competitive