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Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Challenges
A main application area of MunEDA´s WiCkeD design analysis, modeling and optimization tools and solutions is the specification-driven transistor-level sizing, modeling and design centering of analog/mixed-signal circuits. Many of these circuits have to keep tight specification bounds over a large range of temperature, supply voltage or load. In automotive and healthcare applications, reliability and design robustness are important requirements.
MunEDA Tools for Analog/Mixed-Signal Design
MunEDA WiCkeD contains a large toolbox of analysis, modeling and sizing tools that help the analog designer understand, check and improve circuits more reliably and systematically.
Typical applications in analog/mixed-signal circuit design for using WiCkeD are e.g.:
- Non-RF blocks in Communication Circuits
- Automotive and Industrial ICs
- Sensor Interfaces
- Audio/Video Signal Processing
- Process Migration
- IP Reuse & Performance Tuning
- Reduce Sensitivities to Operating Conditions
- Reduce Sensitivities to Process Variations
- Low Power / Low Voltage Design Challenges
...and more
Typical Circuits for
Analog/Mixed-Signal Design |
Typical Performance Metrics for
Analog/Mixed-Signal Design |
- Blu-ray Disc photodetector ICs
- Blu-ray Disc photodetector ICs
- Sub-blocks of ADC/DAC
- PLL Phased Locked Loop
- Comparators for switched capacitor circuits
- Bandgap voltage references
- Transimpedance amplifiers
- Linear voltage regulators (LDO)
- LIN transceivers
- ...and more
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- Gain
- Slew Rate
- Frequency
- Power
- Phase Margin
- Offset
- Supply Voltage
- Load
- Temperature and Operating Range
- Performance Dependencies
- Process Sensitivities
- Statistical Variations
- ...or similar
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Customer Success AMS Design
with MunEDA WiCkeD Tools
Günter Kornmann, Director Analog Mixed Signal Designflows, Infineon Technologies AG:
"WiCkeD is Infineon’s state of the art DFM-DFY tool in front-end design and fully integrated into Infineons Designflow. It is used since 2002 in more than 300 design and tape-out projects with Infineon in RF Design, High-Speed Analog, High-Speed Digital, Automotive Power, Embedded Memory, Enhanced Digital Cell Library Modeling, and other applications."
Design Analysis & Modelling
 STMicroelectronics - Worst Case Analysis and Yield Optimizationof a micro-power precision OpAmp based on an advanced Offset Cancellation Chopper technique in HF7CMOS (350nm) [...] with WiCkeDTM
 ON Semiconductor - Design Re-use and Optimization of Oscillator Design with WiCkeDTM
 austriamicrosystems - Yield Optimization of a Power-on Reset Cell and Experimental Verification
 Bosch - Design Analysis and Optimisation of Automotive Sensor Circuits
ON Semiconductor - Optimization of Voltage Error Amplifier with WiCkeDTM
Design Analysis & Optimization
 Atmel - Modelling of Multi-Stage Amplifiers with WiCkeDTM
 ZMDI - Circuit Design-for-Yield (DFY) for a 110 dB Op-Amp for Automotive and Sensor Applications
 ZMDI - Robust and Reliable Analog Design for Automotive and Sensor Applications by Combining Design Centering and SOA Techniques
 TU-Ilmenau/IMMS - Analysis of frequency-optimized transimpedance amplifiers in XFAB 600nm BiCMOS technology
Pierluigi Daglio, NVM Design & Verification Flows Manager, STMicroelectronics:
"WiCkeD is a perfect tool for circuit analysis, design optimization and yield enhancement. STMicroelectronics has used WiCkeD based on Mentor® Eldo® circuit simulation in numerous benchmarks and real applications and proved it helps to design more robust circuits with a better yield."
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