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Cadence Introduces the Spectre FX FastSPICE Simulator Delivering up to 3X Performance Gains with Superior Accuracy
The Spectre FX Simulator’s completely new architecture delivers transformative innovation to accelerate verification of memory and SoC designs SAN JOSE,
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nThe Spectre FX Simulator’s completely new architecture delivers transformative innovation to accelerate verification of memory and SoC designs\n\n SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the new Cadence® Spectre® FX Simulator, a next-generation FastSPICE circuit simulator that enables the efficient verification of memory and large-scale system-on-chip (SoC) designs. As part of the industry-leading Spectre simulation platform, the Spectre FX Simulator’s innovative and scalable FastSPICE architecture offers customers up to 3X better performance compared to the latest FastSPICE simulators with equal or better accuracy. With the addition of the Spectre FX Simulator, the Spectre platform offers the industry's only complete simulation solution providing a seamless accuracy-performance continuum for all applications from cell characterization through chip-level verification.\n\nToday's complex memory and SoC designs need high accuracy and fast simulation performance to ensure they function as intended and meet chip specifications. Additionally, it's increasingly essential to include post-layout parasitics in the chip verification process, especially for advanced-node designs to account for the layout effects on the chip functionality. Innovative engineering went into the new FastSPICE solver development to provide breakthrough levels of performance and accuracy within the Spectre FX Simulator. The new simulator gives design and verification teams the ability to accurately check timing, functionality and power consumption of their full-chip and subsystem-level designs. In addition to the productivity gains achieved through improved performance with accuracy, the new Spectre FX simulator offers several other benefits:\n\n\nScalability: The simulator offers scalability of up to 32 cores with multi-threading to parallelize transient simulations to take advantage of hardware resources and improve productivity.\n\n\nBest-in-Class Use Model: The Spectre FX Simulator delivers the industry's most intuitive use model with the best out-of-the-box accuracy and performance balance and a minimal amount of tuning needed to obtain the optimal accuracy and simulation speed for any given verification task.\n\n\nEase of Adoption: The simulator fully leverages the Spectre platform's infrastructure...