Analog/Mixed-Signal Implementation

First-time right, predictable mixed-signal design that reduces weeks of design time to days and doesn’t sacrifice performance.

Two major forces have compelled analog and digital circuits to mix and co-exist. The first is economic: the ever increasing desire for integration and cost reduction is fueling the growing presence of analog and digital circuits on a single die, despite the engineering challenges involved. The second is technical: many high-performance analog systems using sub-nanometer process technologies contain increased levels of digital circuitry to improve their performance (digitally assisted analog). This convergence of circuits creates a significant need for analog and digital tools to unify. It is no longer effective to have two separate flows, one for analog and one for digital and then integrate the design.

For digital implementation, Titan provides seamless integration to the Talus digital implementation tools and data and Quartz physical verification products. This provides a powerful combination of the efficiency of Talus, Titan’s full-custom analog design tools and high-capacity Quartz physical verification capabilities.

Magma’s analog/mixed-signal implementation platform includes:

• Titan Mixed-Signal Design Platform, the industry’s first true mixed-signal design platform, integrates analog, digital implementation and verification while delivering first-time-right, predictable mixed-signal designs. The Titan platform is designed to shorten design cycle time by weeks without sacrificing performance. Titan mixed-signal platform includes a schematic editor, complete analog simulation environment, a schematic-driven layout capability that works with the layout editor and an automatic analog shape-based router.
• Titan ADX, an integral part of Magma’s Titan mixed-signal design platform, focuses on solving analog/mixed-signal design, optimization and porting challenges. Its new, model-based approach allows circuit optimization and porting in a fraction of the time required by traditional simulation-based techniques. Titan ADX takes the guesswork out of analog design, shortening the analog design process from weeks to days and reducing power and area up to 50 percent.