CIRCUIT PORTING SUITE
Navigate IP migration with assured accuracy
Migrating IP designs quickly and accurately
Complex analog, mixed-signal and RF IP circuits demand a reliable design migration solution.
AMALIA PLATFORM’s Circuit Porting Suite streamlines the transition of designs to new process nodes, minimizing unexpected variations and ensuring that up to 70% of IP blocks fit target parameters without alterations. The product is available in three variants: Core, Professional and Advanced.
When combined with AMALIA’s Technology Analyzer, Circuit Porting Suite offers a comprehensive porting solution that can dramatically reduce design cycle times by up to 50%.
Key benefits
Enhanced design reliability
Maintains schematic placement and floorplan, preserving the integrity and reliability of the original design during the porting process.
Time and cost efficiency
Delivers design cycle time reductions, enabling significant cost savings and faster time-to-market for IP projects.
Simplified user experience
The familiar user interface streamlines the migration of complex IP circuits, making the process quick and straightforward.
Risk mitigation
Proactively identifies and resolves potential layout deviations, ensuring a smooth transition to the target technology with minimized risk.
Features
- Intuitive UI for porting: A highly intuitive user interface simplifies the task of instance replacement and rerouting.
- Enhanced routing and review: Smart routing functions prevent common layout issues, supported by migration solutions for interactive editing.
- Automated mapping and analysis: Device mapping recognizes device types and accurately maps terminal parameters, underpinned by robust comparison reports and enhanced with conditional rules.
- Simulation-ready designs: Direct comparison between the simulation results of original and ported designs ensures functional integrity.
- Parallelize verification (see note 1, 2): Multiple simulations and Maestro states can be run concurrently limited only by compute and simulation resources.
- Comparison reports of PVT simulation(see note 1, 2): Color highlighting identifies performance metrics which have not been met compared to the source.
- Incorporates “Estimated Parasitics” (see note 2): Based on source layout’s extracted parasitic view or from independent extraction run
- Interactive comparison of parasitic connections (see note 2)
- Database integrity verification: Database checks before and after porting help maintain a clean design database, streamlining the migration process.
- Integrated with leading EDA solutions: from Cadence and Siemens EDA
- User friendly error reporting & fixing: Highlighting mismatches in cell parameters between source & ported designs at circuit level
1 Available in Circuit Porting Suite – Professional
2 Available in Circuit Porting Suite – Advanced
AMALIA PLATFORM
Technology Analyzer
Quickly identify similiarities and difference between technologies
Circuit Porting
Automatically migrate complex circuits faster with less risk
Layout Automation
Accelerate layout design and maintain quality with automated mapping and DRC checks
Design Enabler
Optimize design centering more efficiently after migration
Circuit Porting Suite in action
Rapid Tier1 to Tier2 migration analysis for 13 PMIPs facilitates second sourcing approach
Thalia’s partnership with a leading IP company to evaluate the potential migration of 13 Power Management IPs (PMIPs) from Tier1 to Tier2 40nm CMOS technology has set new benchmarks in pre-migration planning efficiency with a 75% reduction in time against a standard manual analysis.
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Whether you require a comprehensive, end-to-end solution or prefer a more autonomous approach, we are committed to identifying the most suitable partnership model to meet your specific needs.
