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MunEDA - WiCkeDTM Nominal Circuit Analysis Tools

MunEDA WiCkeD Nominal Circuit Analysis Tools contain numerous methodologies to analyze and diagnose integrated circuits regarding their functionality, topology concepts, performances, behavior against environmental and operating conditions and many more. Nominal means here the circuit behavior with typical, PVT and worst-case corner conditions. MunEDA offers within the WiCkeD suite numerous tools and methodologies for intensive Nominal Circuit Analysis for many application areas. These can support the circuit designer to reduce design time and effort and come up with high-performing and well-behaved circuits in an easy and convenient way.
Tool Logo Tool Short Description Features Applications
BAS - WiCkeDTM Basic

WiCkeD Basic delivers a powerful basic feature compilation to enable the circuit designer to do enhanced topology analysis, constraint setup and management as well as different analysis types for circuit performance, parameter sensitivity and correlation. WiCkeDTM is fully integrated into standard design environments and using standard industrial simulators.

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  • Constraint Management
  • Sensitivity Analysis
  • Design Parameter Analysis
  • Process Parameter Analysis
  • Operating Parameter Analysis
  • Parameter Sweeps
  • Performance Setup
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Parallel Simulation Interface
  • Specification Driven Design
  • Sensitivity Analysis
  • Performance Trade-off Analysis
CED - Constraint Editor

The WiCkeD Constraint Editor generates a complete constraint and parameter setup for the circuit analysis and optimization process. Therefore, the Constraint Editor retrieves data from the design environment e.g. directly from the schematic editor or from a netlist.

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  • Constraint Editor
  • Automated Parameter Setup
  • Automatic Parameterization
  • Automated Topology Structure Recognition
  • Configurable Topology Structure Recognition
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Circuit Topology Analysis
  • Circuit Constraints Analysis
  • Technology Constraints Analysis
NOD - Nominal Diagnosis

NOD enables the user to perform powerful analyses based on typical (nominal) process characteristics. The designer gets insight into dependencies between performances and parameters with very small simulation effort.

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  • Analysis of nominal design
  • Manual optimization of nominal design
  • Parameter influence analysis
  • Parameter redundancy analysis
  • Constraint limits
  • Performance improvements
  • Nominal Design Analysis
  • Trade-off analysis of design parameters and performances
SCG - Parameter Screening

With SCG the circuit designer can filter during the design analysis and optimization process parameters with large and low influence on the performances and constraints. This can significantly reduce required simulation efforts.

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  • Automated Screening & Masking of design, process, and operation parameters
  • Filtering based on sensitivities
  • Interactive Filtering
  • Automatic Filtering
  • Simulation performance improvements
  • Nominal Design Analysis
  • Design Parameter Influence Analysis
  • Absolute Parameter Influence
  • Relative Parameter Influence
  • Reduction of simulation efforts
WCO - Worst Case Operation

WCO is a powerful analysis tool that calculates and displays worst-case operating conditions. A special Worst-Case operation algorithm is minimizing/maximizing performances for lower/upper specification.

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  • Worst Case Operating Corners
  • Calculation of worst-case performance values
  • Non-linear performance characteristics
  • Circuit Reliability Analysis
  • Circuit Robustness Analysis
  • Calculation of Worst-Case Operating Conditions
  • Minimize performance for lower/upper specification
  • Maximize performance for lower/upper specification