Virtuoso Layout Suite MXL Features
The key features supported by Layout MXL are listed below:
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Advanced Node Standard Cell Placement and Routing
Virtuoso Layout Suite MXL provides fast custom digital layout creation using the GigaPlace™ Engine and the NanoRoute™ Advanced Digital Router engine from the Innovus™ Implementation System. The GigaPlace and NanoRoute engines help overcome the deterioration in result quality from automated standard cell placement and routing tools due to complex design rule challenges on advanced process nodes. In addition, the availability of the Auto P&R assistant for standard cell placement and the Routing assistant for standard cell routing in the Layout MXL cockpit, makes the automation engines natively available in Virtuoso.
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Automatic Routing Support using Routing Assistant
The Routing Assistant in Virtuoso Layout Suite MXL is a unified, fully integrated interface that supports auto-routing for various design styles – device, standard cell, and chip assembly. The assistant provides a common spreadsheet-style Routing Constraint Manager that simplifies management of routing constraints for thousands of nets, using in-built filters and custom view support. The Routing Results Browser further simplifies the routing management by providing the results in an easy-to-read and customize table format that supports cross-selection, filtering, and sorting.
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Transparent Editing of Modgens
Virtuoso Layout Suite MXL allows direct selection and editing of instances inside a Modgen without requiring an Edit-In-Place. This avoids the hassle of switching back and forth between Modgen editor and layout to edit various modgens in the layout. In Transparent Editing mode, all the Modgen editing capabilities are supported for the top-level canvas object in context.
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Cross Section Viewer
You can view cross sections of physical layers in a layout by using the cross section viewer. The viewer displays the different layers, from top to bottom, present in a cross section, enabling you to view each layer clearly and to help identify any missing or wrongly placed layers and to debug connection issues across layers.
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Layout Migration
Layout migration in Virtuoso Layout Suite MXL enables you to recreate the layout in your target process node, while retaining the critical intents from the source layout. The migration process requires capturing the placement and routing information from the source layout in templates and applying the reuse information from these templates to generate the target layout. -
Heterogeneous Integration
Virtuoso Layout Suite MXL allows integration of multi-fabric chiplets to implement circuits that are more cost effective and faster to market. Not only does Layout MXL support multi-fabric co-analysis of electrical, electromagnetic, and photonic signals but it also supports system-level integration and verification of multi-fabric circuits, including power and thermal analysis.
See Flows in Virtuoso RF Solution
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