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Design Planning and Analysis
Virtuoso® Design Planning and Analysis tool provides hierarchical generation capabilities in connectivity-driven and constraint-driven flows, including electrically-aware flows. The Design Planning and Analysis (DPA) flow provides full flexibility in planning and analyzing analog and mixed-signal chips, and blocks— using hard blocks, soft blocks, and virtual hierarchies.The DPA flow supports both top-down and bottom-up approaches, implementing the best of both design methodologies. In addition, the tool provides seamless placement planning, global route planning, and analysis capabilities, allowing optimization of layout plans at the top level, block level, and cell level.
You can use environment variables to change the value of many aspects of your environment either for an individual design session or permanently until you change the value of the environment variable again.
Prerequisites
Virtuoso Design Planning and Analysis is aimed at developers and designers of integrated circuits and assumes that you are familiar with:
- The Virtuoso Studio design environment and application infrastructure mechanisms supporting consistent operations between all Cadence tools.
- The applications for designing and developing integrated circuits in the Virtuoso Studio design environment, notably the Virtuoso® Layout Suite XL layout editor and the Virtuoso Floorplanner.
- Virtuoso technology data.
- Component description format (CDF), which lets you create and describe your own components for use with Layout XL.
To use the Virtuoso Design Planning and Analysis flow, you must have access to the following Virtuoso Studio design environment capabilities:
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