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Cadence and UMC Certify mmWave Reference Flow on 28HPC+ Process for Advanced RF Designs
Collaboration enables customers to utilize Cadence RF solutions to design 5G, IoT and automotive applications on UMC’s 28nm process technology SAN JOSE,
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCollaboration enables customers to utilize Cadence RF solutions to design 5G, IoT and automotive applications on UMC’s 28nm process technology \n\n SAN JOSE, Calif. & HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), a global semiconductor foundry, today announced that the Cadence® millimeter wave (mmWave) reference flow has achieved certification for UMC’s 28HPC+ process technology. With this certification, mutual Cadence and UMC customers have access to an integrated RF design flow that accelerates time to market. The complete mmWave reference flow, based on UMC’s Foundry Design Kit (FDK), includes an actual demonstration circuit with a highly automated circuit design, layout, signoff and verification flow that provides more seamless design in 28HPC+.\n\n\nThe certified mmWave reference flow supports the Cadence Intelligent System Design™ strategy, which enables customers to achieve SoC design excellence. To learn more about the Cadence RF solutions that support the UMC 28HPC+ process technology, visit www.cadence.com/go/CadenceRFSolutions.\n\n\nHigh-frequency mmWave RF designs require accurate electromagnetic (EM) extraction and simulation analysis in addition to analog and mixed-signal capabilities. The mmWave reference flow, based on the Cadence Virtuoso® RF solution, brings together the industry-leading schematic capture, layout implementation, parasitic extraction, EM analysis and RF circuit simulation, along with integrated layout versus schematic (LVS) and design rule checking (DRC) in a single flow. This flow also incorporates EM analysis using the Cadence EMX® Planar 3D Simulator and Cadence AWR® AXIEM® 3D Planar EM Analysis into the trusted Virtuoso and Spectre® platforms, providing a high level of automation and the ability to analyze performance of RF circuits pre- and post-silicon.\n\n\nThe certified mmWave reference flow includes:\n\n\n\nDesign capture and simulation via the Virtuoso Schematic Editor, Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Assembler, Spectre X Simulator, Spectre AMS Designer and the Spectre RF Option\n\n\nLayout implementation via the Virtuoso Layout Suite and Physical Verification System (PVS)\n\n\nParasitic extraction of transistor-level interconnects via the Quantus™ Extraction Solution\n\n\nElectromagnetic analysis of interconn...