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Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution Product Description
Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution Licenses
Checking Out Licenses for Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution Products
- Voltus-Fi-L Compatibility with MMSIM/SPECTRE and EXT Product Versions
- Voltus-Fi-L Compatibility with Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution

Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution Product Description

This release of the Voltus™-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution (Voltus-Fi) software includes the following products:

Table 1-1 Voltus-Fi Products

Product Name Abbreviation Product Number Description

Product Name	Abbreviation	Product Number	Description
Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-L	VTS-Fi-L	VTS400	Uses the extracted view to perform IR drop and Electromigration (EM) analysis. It uses the results of the simulation performed using the `vavo-db` or the `psf` data.
Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-XL	VTS-Fi-XL	VTS500	Performs multi-mode simulation (MMSIM) electromigration and voltage drop (EMIR) analysis for power and signal nets using the simulation database generated by SPECTRE^® APS/XPS. It is tightly integrated within Virtuoso.
Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-AA	VTS-Fi-AA	VTS501	Supports the following advanced features: Hierarchical EMIR Analysis Hierarchical SHE analysis and modeling for Voltus, which is similar to the PGV Flow.

Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-L

VTS-Fi-L

VTS400

Uses the extracted view to perform IR drop and Electromigration (EM) analysis. It uses the results of the simulation performed using the vavo-db or the psf data.

Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-XL

VTS-Fi-XL

VTS500

Performs multi-mode simulation (MMSIM) electromigration and voltage drop (EMIR) analysis for power and signal nets using the simulation database generated by SPECTRE^® APS/XPS. It is tightly integrated within Virtuoso.

Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-AA

VTS-Fi-AA

VTS501

Supports the following advanced features:

Hierarchical EMIR Analysis
Hierarchical SHE analysis and modeling for Voltus, which is similar to the PGV Flow.

Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution Licenses

When you run a command to use a product, a license is checked out. Each product has a unique license string (also called a license key).

The following table lists the Voltus-Fi product names and the corresponding license strings.

Table 1-2 Product Name and Corresponding License String

Product Name	License String
Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-L (VTS-Fi-L)	`Voltus_Power_Integrity_Fi_L`
Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-XL (VTS-Fi-XL)	`Voltus_Power_Integrity_Fi_XL`
Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-AA (VTS-Fi-AA)	`Voltus_Power_Integrity_Fi_AA`

With the Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-XL license, you can also run Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-L (VTS-Fi-L).

For more information about the Voltus-Fi-XL product license, see the “Product and Licensing Information” chapter in the Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution XL User Guide.

Voltus-Fi will be obsolete in the next base IC release. The “next-generation” solution, Voltus-XFi, is available in this release of Virtuoso. It offers significant improvements to the overall EM-IR flow, including a unified use model, simplified simulation setup, and faster loading of results. The Voltus-XFi license is backward compatible and can be used to run Voltus-Fi if needed.

Checking Out Licenses for Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution Products

The Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution products are integrated in the Virtuoso^® Design Environment. The results of the analyses performed by Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution are displayed on the Virtuoso GUI, overlaid on the design layout.

Running Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution GUI requires check-out availability of the following license set:

Cadence^® Design Framework II (DFII) license (known as the “product 111 license”). Once a DFII license check is performed successfully, you will be able to access the Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution functionality.
Virtuoso^® Analog Design Environment XL (ADE XL)
For information on licenses for the Virtuoso® Studio Design Environment, see “Virtuoso Studio Design Environment Licensing Setup” in the Virtuoso Software Licensing and Configuration User Guide.

The Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution-L product leverages existing Cadence tools for performing extraction and simulation but does not include licenses for these tools. These licenses must be purchased separately.

For extraction, you require a license for the following Cadence tools:

Quantus QRC version 9.1.2 and above

For simulation, you require a license for one of the following:

SPECTRE version 10.1 and above
APS version 10.1 and above
ViVA version IC6.1.6 and above
ADE L version IC6.1.6 and above

Voltus-Fi-L Compatibility with MMSIM/SPECTRE and EXT Product Versions

The table below provides the mapping between the Voltus-Fi-L product version and the corresponding EXT and MMSIM/SPECTRE versions that are compatible with it. It is recommended that you use these version specifications to avoid erroneous results.

From the 16.10 release version of the software, MMSIM is renamed to SPECTRE.

Voltus-Fi-L Version	EXT Versions	MMSIM/SPECTRE Versions
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1	EXT 20.1x	SPECTRE 19.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR15	EXT 20.1x	SPECTRE 19.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR16	EXT 20.1x	SPECTRE 19.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR17	EXT 20.1x	SPECTRE 19.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR18	EXT 21.1x	SPECTRE 19.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR19	EXT 21.1x	SPECTRE 20.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR20	EXT 21.1x	SPECTRE 20.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR21	EXT 21.1x	SPECTRE 21.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR22	EXT 21.1x	SPECTRE 21.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR23	EXT 21.1x	SPECTRE 21.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR24	EXT 21.1x	SPECTRE 21.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR25	EXT 21.1x	SPECTRE 21.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR26	EXT 21.1x	SPECTRE 21.1.0 ISRx
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR27	EXT 21.2x	SPECTRE 21.1.0 ISRx

Voltus-Fi-L Compatibility with Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution

The table below provides the mapping between the Voltus-Fi-L product version and the corresponding Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution (Voltus) version that is compatible with it. It is recommended that you use this version specification to avoid erroneous results.

The power-grid view (PGV) generation flow—Voltus-Fi and Voltus—does not provide backward compatibility with the earlier Voltus versions. It is recommended that you use the version specifications provided below.

Voltus-Fi-L Version	Voltus Version
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 19.14
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR15	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 19.14
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR16	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 19.17
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR17	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 19.17
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR18	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 19.17
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR19	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 20.62
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR20	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 20.62
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR21	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 20.63
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR22	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 20.63
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR23	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 20.63
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR24	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 20.63
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR25	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 20.63
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR26	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 20.63
Voltus-Fi-L ICADVM20.1 ISR27	Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution 20.63

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Voltus-Fi Custom Power Integrity Solution L User GuideProduct Version IC23.1, August 2023

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Product and Licensing Information