Spectre Accelerated Parallel Simulator

The Spectre Accelerated Parallel Simulator (Spectre APS) maintains baseline Spectre simulation accuracy. It fully supports all Spectre functionalities and provides advanced performance for the next generation of analog and RF simulations. It delivers significant scalable performance and capacity with accurate results across a broad range of complex analog, RF, and mixed-signal blocks. It also provides accurate results for sub-systems with sizes up to millions of transistors and passive parasitic elements. Spectre APS provides all the transistor-level analysis capabilities available in Spectre Circuit Simulator.

In addition, its proprietary parallel simulation technology delivers scalable multi-core processing capability on modern multi-core compute platforms. Spectre APS:

• Supports all analysis capabilities offered in Spectre Circuit Simulator.
• Offers advanced parallel simulation on a single multi-core compute platform.
• Supports distributed, advanced parallel simulation across a cluster of multi-core computer platforms.
• Enables parasitic stitching and reduction for post-layout design and verification, providing additional performance gain for analog and RF designs dominated by parasitics.
• Supports multi-core harmonic balance, shooting-Newton, and envelope analysis.
• Supports Electromigration and IR drop analysis.
• Supports static and dynamic circuit checks.

Benefits of Spectre APS

Spectre APS provides the following benefits:

• Provides significant single-core performance with an identical use model and full Spectre accuracy for everyday simulation of complex and/or large block designs, leading to faster convergence.
• Enables high-precision simulation for large post-layout analog and RF designs and subsystems dominated by parasitic devices.
• Delivers scalable performance leveraging a single machine or cluster of machines with multi-core architectures, allowing higher levels of analog design integration and verification and a quick turnaround time on simulation.
• Enables fast and accurate analysis of complete transceivers and large post-layout RF IC blocks by significantly improving the performance and capacity of harmonic balance analysis using a multi-core compute platform.

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