Alternatives to PathWave RFIC Design

OrCAD® X is a unified PCB design software platform. It offers significant improvements to ease of use, performance and automation. Our product suite includes applications for schematic, PCB layout, simulation and data management. OrCAD X Capture, a schematic design solution for electrical circuit creation and documentation, is one of OrCAD's most popular products. PSpice®, our virtual SPICE simulation engine integrated into Capture, allows you to prototype and verify your designs using industry-leading native analog, mixed signal, and advanced analysis engines. OrCAD X Presto and OrCAD X PCB editor are two PCB layout tools that allow designers to easily collaborate between ECAD/MCAD teams and build better PCBs faster. OrCAD X Presto is our new, simplified interface for novice designers, electrical engineers and PCB designers focused on quick turn PCB designs.

Cadence®, Sigrity X PowerSI® technology helps you to tackle increasingly difficult issues related switching noise, signal coupling and target voltage levels. It provides fast, accurate and detailed electrical analyses of full IC packages and PCBs. It can be used to develop power and signal integrity guidelines before layout, or after layout to verify performance and improve the design without a prototype. Sigrity X's electromagnetic (EM) solver technology allows you to perform a wide range of studies, including identifying trace and via coupling problems, power/ground fluctuation caused by simultaneously switching out put, and designing regions that are below or above voltage targets. PowerSI technology allows you to extract frequency-dependent parameter models for network networks and visualize complex spatial relationships.

RFICs can be designed, analyzed, and verified using a variety of simulation methods. Gain confidence using steady-state and nonlinear solutions for design and verification. Wireless standard libraries speed up the validation of complex RFICs. Model silicon chips accurately. Optimize designs using sweeps and load pull analysis. Simulate RF designs using Cadence Virtuoso or Synopsys Custom Compiler. Monte Carlo and yield analyses can be used to increase performance. Early in the design phase, assess the error vector magnitude (EVM), for the latest communication standard. Use the latest technology in foundries immediately. Early in the RFIC development phase, it is essential to monitor system IC specifications like EVM using RF simulation. Simulations include effects from parasitics on layouts, complex modulated signal, and digital circuitry. Keysight RFPro Circuit allows you to simulate in the frequency and time domain.

Cadence®, Sigrity X OptimizationPI™ technology performs a complete AC frequency analyzer of boards and IC package to ensure high performance and save between 15% and 50 % in decoupling capacitor costs. It supports both pre-and post-layout studies and quickly pinpoints the most cost-effective decap selections. Sigrity X OptimizePI is based on proven Cadence hybrid magnetic circuit analysis technology combined with the unique Sigrity Optimization engine to help you quickly identify the best possible placement and decap locations.

Ansys Exalto, a post-LVS RLCk extractor software solution, allows IC designers to capture unknown crosstalk between different blocks in their design hierarchy. It extracts lumped-element parasitics from the design hierarchy and generates an accurate model for electrical and magnetic coupling. Exalto interfaces well with most LVS tools, and can be used in conjunction with the RC extraction tool you choose. Ansys Exalto post LVS RLCk extraction allows IC designers to accurately predict electromagnetic and substrate-coupling effects for signoff on circuits previously "too large to analyze." The extracted models can be back-annotated to any schematic or netlist and support all circuit simulators. Modern silicon systems have seen a rise in RF and high speed circuits. This has made electromagnetic coupling a first-order effect that must be accurately modelled to ensure silicon success.

Our next-generation platform enables chip developers and verification engineers design and debug 10x quicker. Verilator allows you to run thousands of parallel tests at the touch of a button. Share test results and waveforms seamlessly with anyone in your company, tag coworkers on signals and track test and regression errors. Verilator is used to distribute test runs and Dockerized simulation binaries across our compute cluster. We collect the log files, results, and optionally rerun failed tests to generate waveforms. Docker allows us to ensure that our test runs are consistent, reproducible and repeatable. SiLogy increases chip developer productivity by enabling faster debugging and design times. Before SiLogy the only way to debug a failing test was by copying lines from logs, debugging using waveforms on local machines, or rerunning simulations that could take days to run.

Sigrity X Advanced SI Technology offers advanced signal integrity analysis for PCBs and IC packaging, covering DC up to 56GHz, with features such as automated die-todie SI analysis, topology exploring, and simulation of high-speed interfaces. It supports IBIS-AMI and customizable compliance kits to ensure that your designs meet rigorous standards.

The AFS Platform is foundry-certified and delivers SPICE accuracy of nm, 5x faster than traditional simulations, and >2x faster compared to parallel SPICE simulators. The fastest nm platform for circuit verification of analog, RF and mixed-signal circuits. Now includes the new eXTreme Technology. AFS eXTreme is 3x faster and has a 100M element capacity for large post-layout circuits. Supports all leading solvers. Best-in class usability allowing maximum reuse and reuse of verification infrastructure. Verification coverage is improved by advanced verification and debugging capabilities. Improved design quality and reduced time to market. SPICE high-sigma accuracy. 1000x faster than brute force simulation Easy to use and deploy. AFS eXTreme is available for no additional charge.

Sigrity X Platform combines innovation and optimization to take you into the future. Unlock the key to flawless power and signal integrity in your PCB designs and IC packages, and leap beyond the current limitations of signal integrity technology. Imagine navigating the complexity of electronic design with ease and precision, and exceeding your time-to market targets. Sigrity X is not just another tool. It unlocks seamless in-design synergy between Allegro X PCBs and IC Packages. Explore a comprehensive set of SI/PI Analysis, in-design Interconnect Modeling, and PDN Analysis tools that will supercharge your performance and ensure your projects meet deadlines and budgets. Use the Sigrity X Platform to achieve flawless performance and reliability in your next design.

Design your photonic integrated system in a layout-centric flow. Designers can implement their designs using either drag-and drop or script-driven methodologies. Both are done in the same custom IC layout editor which drives the physical verification process and tape-out. L-Edit Photonics allows the creation of a fast photonic design by using drag-and-drop in an IC Layout Editor, without having to code a single line. Once the design has been completed, a netlist for photonic simulation can be extracted. PIC design with a complete IC Layout Editor. Create a layout in a single click. Supports a flow of design that is layout-centric, where schematics are not required. S-Edit allows for a schematic flow. A simulation netlist is a useful input to a photonic sim. Integration with our partners allows us to support photonic simulation. Multiple foundries offer photonic PDKs.

Ansys Maxwell solves EM fields for electric machines, transformers and wireless charging. It also works with actuators, permanent magnet latches and other electrmechanical devices. It can solve static, frequency-domain, and time-varying electric fields. Maxwell also offers specialized interfaces for power converters and electric machines. Maxwell allows you to precisely characterize the transient, nonlinear motion of electromechanical components as well as their effects on the drive circuit design and control system design. Maxwell's electromagnetic field solvers can be seamlessly linked to the integrated circuit or systems simulation technology to enable you to understand the performance of electromechanical system before you build a prototype in hardware. Maxwell provides a reliable simulation of low-frequency electromagnetic field in industrial components.

Altium's PDN Analyzer tool integrates with Altium Designer. This allows you to easily troubleshoot issues such as insufficient or excessive copper or uncontrolled voltage drops. You can also detect marginal voltage at critical power points, copper islands or peninsulas, and other issues that could be present in your PCB power system. PDN is the power system for active circuits on printed circuit boards. This includes all interconnections between the voltage regulator module, the metallization pads and die on integrated devices that are used for supply and return power. The entire length of the power delivery network must meet the IC supply voltage limits. Validating your power budget accurately means taking into account the minimum and maximum device limits, worst case voltage drops, combined return-path currents, and other factors. PDN Analyzer will show you exactly where these problems are.

Solido's AI-enabled solutions for variation-aware design and IP validation, library characterization and simulation are used by thousands of designers in the world's top semiconductor companies. Integrated suite of AI accelerated SPICE and Fast SPICE simulators to help customers accelerate critical design and verify for next-generation analog and mixed-signal designs. The industry's most comprehensive IP validation solution. It provides complete, seamless IP testing from design to tape out, across all design views, and IP revisions. Comprehensive AI-powered environment for nominal and variations-aware verification custom IC circuitry. Full design coverage is achieved in orders of magnitude fewer simulations with the accuracy of brute force techniques. Machine learning is used to provide fast, accurate library characterisation tools.

Multipurpose, full-wave 3D electromagnetic (EM), simulation software for designing, simulating and optimizing high-frequency electronic products, such as antennas, components and interconnects. Ansys HFSS 3D electromagnetic (EM), simulation software is used to design and simulate high-frequency electronic products, such as antennas and antenna arrays, RF and microwave components, high speed interconnects and filters, connectors and IC packages. Ansys HFSS software is used by engineers around the world to design high-frequency, fast electronics for communication systems, advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), satellites, IoT products, and other areas. Engineers can address complex EMI, RF, microwave, IC and PCB problems with HFSS's unmatched capability. Ansys HFSS simulation suite includes a wide range of solvers that can be used to solve diverse electromagnetic problems.

Ansys Icepak solves thermal management problems using CFD. It predicts airflow, temperature, and heat transfer in IC packages, PCBs, electronic assemblies/enclosures, and power electronics. Ansys Icepak offers powerful electronic cooling solutions using the industry-leading Ansys Fluent CFD solver to perform thermal and fluid flow analysis of integrated circuits, packages, printed circuit board (PCBs), electronic assemblies and enclosures. Ansys' Icepak CFD solution uses the Ansys Electronics Desktop GUI (GUI). Perform heat transfer analysis conjugated with conduction, convection and radiation. Advanced capabilities include laminar and turbulent flow modeling, species analysis, including radiation and convection. Ansys PCB Design Solution allows you to simulate PCBs and ICs and accurately evaluate a system.

Ansys Path FX lets you calculate timing with variation on a full SoC without any shortcuts. Its unique cell modeling allows SPICE accuracy timing for any voltage and variation condition using a single library. Path FX is fully threaded, distributed and can scale up to thousands of CPUs. Ansys Path FX's path based timing analysis can account for all contributors to delay or constraints across multiple process, voltages, temperature corners, and scenarios. It can also simulate and identify every clock path in your design. Today's biggest challenges in chip design are to limit power consumption using lower supply voltages, and manage the complexity of advanced silicon processing at 7nm or below.

Microwave Office is a powerful tool for the design of passive components, such as filters, couplers and attenuators. It also supports active devices that operate under small-signal conditions, such as buffer amplifiers and low noise amplifiers. The linear configuration allows for simulation of S parameters (Y/Z/H/ABCD), linear stability, noise figure and return loss/voltage-standing-wave ratio (VSWR) as well as real time tuning, optimization and yield analysis. All E-series Microwave Office Portfolios include synchronous schematic/layout editors, 2D/3D viewer, libraries of high-frequency transmitted transmission models, surface mount vendor component RF model with footprints and measurement-based simulations. Microwave Office PCB supports analysis of RF/microwave systems with the APLAC HB Simulator and its powerful multirate HB, time-variant simulation engine and transient-assisted-HB.

With powerful optimization tools and fast simulation, analyze RF and microwave systems. Automatic circuit synthesis technology allows you to explore performance trade-offs. PathWaveRF Synthesis (Genesys), provides basic functionality that is suitable for all RF and microwave circuit board and subsystem designers. PathWave Circuit Design allows you to identify RF design mistakes that are not obvious from spreadsheet calculations. This entry-level environment includes circuit, system and electromagnetic simulators. It will give you confidence in your design reviews prior to hardware realization. You can see your matching network being synthesized and optimized in just a few mouse clicks. Transfer the design to PathWave Advanced Designer System (ADS), and it will be included in a more complicated design.

Ansys VeloceRF reduces the design cycle by significantly reducing the time required to synthesize complex spiral devices and T lines. It takes just a few seconds for an inductor or transformer to be compiled, and only a few minutes to model it and analyze it. It integrates with the leading EDA platforms to generate ready-to-tape layouts. Ansys VeloceRF allows for the creation of devices with tight packing. Analyzing the coupling between any number of inductive device before detailed layout will reduce design dimensions and reduce or eliminate guard rings. The die size can be affected by inductor size and inductor-to–inductor crosstalk. Ansys VeloceRF allows you to design smaller devices by using optimization criteria and geometry constraints. It also calculates the coupling between any number of inductors, to better optimize silicon real-estate and inductor circuit context.

PathWave ADS provides integrated design guidance via templates to make it easier to get started. It is easy to find the part that you need with the extensive component libraries. Automatic sync allows you to visualize the physical layout and create schematic designs. Data allows teams to visualize whether their designs are meeting specifications. PathWave ADS's data display and analytics capabilities produce graphs, charts and diagrams that will give you design confidence. With wizards, templates, and design guides, you can quickly accelerate your design. The entire design flow includes schematic, layout and circuit. As frequency and speed increase on printed circuit boards (PCBs), signal and power integrity become more important. Electronic device failures can be caused by transmission line effects. To simulate the board accurately, it is necessary to model vias, traces, and interconnects.

The Electromagnetic simulation (EM) gives you insight before physical prototyping. You can customize EM simulations to increase speed and accuracy. Integrate EM analysis into your circuit simulations. EM simulations can take several hours to run. Integrating your EM simulation software and PathWave circuit design software can reduce import and export times. To maximize efficiency, integrate EM analysis and circuit simulations. 3D EM solid modeling environment to create arbitrary 3D objects or import existing 3D models from other CAD settings. Prerequisite to prepare a 3D geometry for 3DEM simulation. This includes defining ports, boundary conditions, and material properties. 3D EM solid modeling and Finite Difference Time Domain simulator. Compliance testing for Specific Absorption Rates (SAR) or Hearing Aid Compatibility.

To manage the increasing complexity, a new place and route paradigm is needed to design at advanced process nodes. Aprisa is an advanced physical design platform that focuses on detail-routes for modern SoCs. Aprisa is a RTL2GDSII implementation that offers complete synthesis, place-and route functionality and block-level implementation for top-level hierarchical design. Its tape-out correlation with signoffs tools, for both STA timing and the DRC, reduces design closing and ensures optimal performance and power. Aprisa delivers optimal PPA out-of-the-box. This helps physical designers reduce effort at each stage of the place and route flow and achieve faster times to market. Unified architecture and common analyses engines ensure excellent timing between implementation steps and signoff tools.

The Cadence AWR Design Environment Platform is a powerful tool that accelerates the development of RF/microwave products by enhancing engineering productivity and reducing turnaround time. This seamlessly integrated platform provides engineers with advanced high frequency circuit and system simulations coupled with in-design electromagnetic/thermal analyses to create manufacturing-ready high-frequency intellectual property. The user interface is intuitive and powerful, designed to increase engineering productivity. It offers smart, customizable designs flows that cater to today's high frequency semiconductor and PCB technologies. A unified design system facilitates front-to back physical design flow. Electrical and layout design entries can be dynamically linked to ensure that components placed into an electrical schematic will automatically generate a synchronized layout.

Ansys PathFinder SC is a high-capacity software that helps you plan, verify, and sign-off IP designs and full-chip SoC designs to ensure integrity and robustness against Electrostatic discharge (ESD). Ansys PathFinder SC identifies and isolates design issues that could lead to chip failure due to ESD events such as charged-device model, human body model (HBM), and other ESD events. Its cloud-native, high-capacity architecture can host thousands of compute cores to provide fast turnaround on full-chip chips. Major foundries have certified PathFinder-SC for current density checks and ESD sign off. The integrated data modeling, extraction, and transient simulation engine of PathFinder-SC is a complete solution for ESD verification. The single-pass model can read industry-standard designs, set up ESD rules, extract the RCs for power networks, and perform ESD simulations to analyze root cause and provide feedback.

Cadence Celsius PowerDC technology offers efficient DC analysis to ensure reliable power delivery. This includes electrical/thermal simulations for maximum accuracy. The Celsius PowerDC technology quickly identifies areas of excessive IR drop and thermal hotspots to minimize the risk of failure of your design. Highly accurate, even with complex designs that have multiple voltage domains, complex plane structures and multiple voltage domains, providing conclusive IR analysis for board and package. DC simulations can be automatically set up using PowerTree Technology (source/sink defintions) captured during the schematic stage of design. Support for multi-structures, including stacked boards, multiple die, and all popular packaging types.

Fusion 360 brings together design, engineering, electronics and manufacturing in one software platform. Get integrated CAD, CAM, CAE & PCB on a single development platform. EAGLE Premium, HSMWorks and Team Participant are also included. You also have access to consumptive services such as cloud simulation, generative design, and cloud rendering. A comprehensive range of modeling tools is available to help you design products. You can ensure the form, fit and function of your products using a variety of analysis methods. You can create and edit sketches using sketch constraints, dimensions, as well as a powerful suite if sketch tools. Edit and repair imported geometry from non native file formats. You can make design changes without worrying too much about time-based features. Edit complex parametric surfaces to repair, patch or design geometry. You can create history-based features such as extrude, revolve and loft that are updated with design changes.

Pharos combines Ansys’ unparalleled EM engine power with a proprietary circuit simulation engine to perform coupling analysis. It also provides a ranking of potential EM-crosstalk aggressors per victim. Designers can identify the most vulnerable nets to help them make design decisions that will manage EM crosstalk and reduce risk. Pharos combines an unparalleled extraction engine power with a built in simulation engine to perform EM analysis. It also ranks potential EM crosstalk aggressors per victim network. This allows designers to concentrate on the most important nets in the design. It is difficult, if not impossible to identify all EM crosstalk vulnerable victim/aggressor net pair due to increasing design complexity and the wide range of magnetic field interference.

Multisim™, a software that integrates industry-standard spice simulation with an interactive schematic environment, allows you to instantly visualize and analyze electronic circuit behavior. Its intuitive interface allows teachers to reinforce circuit theory and improve theory retention throughout their engineering curriculum. Multisim™, which adds powerful circuit simulation and analysis into the design flow, helps researchers and designers decrease iterations and save development costs. Multisim™, for Education, is circuit teaching software for power electronics courses and labs. Multisim™, provides engineers with the SPICE simulation and analysis tools and PCB design tools to quickly iterate on designs, improve prototype performance, and speed up prototyping.

Ansys Electronics' solution suite reduces product development time, minimizes costs, and ensures regulatory compliance. All of this while helping you create the best-in class and cutting-edge product. Use the simulation capabilities of Ansys for the most critical aspects in your designs. We help you solve the most important aspects of your product design through simulation. We provide the best simulators for any design work you do, whether it is antenna, RF or microwave, PCB, package or IC design, electromechanical device, etc. These solutions will help you overcome any electromagnetic, temperature and parasitic challenges, as well as SI, PI and parasitic issues. We then build on this by providing complete product simulations, allowing you first-pass success when designing an airplane, car or other system.

Reduce design complexity with high-quality DFT. Tessent silicon management solutions include advanced features for debugging, safety and security, and in-life analytics to meet today's evolving silicon lifecycle challenges. Create an infrastructure to make designs more testable. Silicon lifecycle management solutions enable high-quality testing, identify defects and hidden limiters of yield, and go beyond test to system debugging, validation, and validation. This ecosystem of tools analyzes data in order to provide critical insights into the system that can be used for monitoring. Best-in-class DFT, debug and in-life monitoring solutions, combined with powerful data analytics, will ensure the highest test quality and accelerate yield ramp. They will also improve safety, security and reliability throughout the silicon lifecycle. Reduce time to yield, manage production excursions, and recover the yield caused by systematic defects.

L-Edit MEMS has become the industry standard for 3D MEMS design. L-Edit is the first step in creating the digital twin of MEMS devices. MEMS designers can benefit from an integrated environment that supports MEMS design, fabrication modeling and links to FEM tools. L-Edit MEMS has become the gold standard in MEMS design. It is the only tool that supports native curves and was developed specifically for MEMS design. It is the foundation for the MEMS digital Twin, supporting device design and 3D fabrication modeling through partnerships. Create a 3D model using layout data and fabrication processes description. This tool gives a 3D graphic representation of the MEMS manufacturing process. Multi-physics simulation using popular FEM analysis software. Export models to FEM/BEM simulations for 3D analyses. Component libraries enable design reuse.

The Cadence Allegro X Design Platform is the best solution to navigate modern electronic complexity and support any PCB needs. It is a full-stack platform that provides a highly integrated and scalable environment for advanced system design. The Allegro X Design Platform allows your global teams to collaborate effectively and simultaneously to reduce project risk, lower production costs and guarantee design compliance. With Allegro X, electrical engineers and PCB designers can make data-driven decisions using integrated analysis workflows and constraints to reduce turnaround time, ensure product reliability and first-time right manufacturing success.

Precision offers FPGA synthesis that is vendor-independent. It offers best-in class performance and area with high reliability design capabilities and close links to simulation. Precision's products have been tightly integrated with Siemens FormalPro LEC, which is used for formal equivalency checks. HDL Designer is used for design capture and verification using ModelSim/Questa. Precision RTL is Siemens' entry-level FPGA synthesizer. It offers best-in class quality results and a vendor-independent FPGA solution. Many space and mil/aero applications need specialized FPGAs that are protected from SEEs. NanoXplore has introduced new FPGAs that are aimed at this market. Precision Synthesis is the first company to offer full synthesis for the NG Ultra device in partnership with NanoXplore. Precision Synthesis has seamless integration with NXmap P&R to complete the design from RTL to gates and bitstream generation.

High-speed digital designs with integrated signal integrity, power integration, 3D electromagnetic modelling & electrical rule checks. HyperLynx makes high-speed design analyses accessible to mainstream designers by combining ease of use and automated workflows. This allows for problems to be identified early in the design process and resolved. HyperLynx is compatible with multiple PCB design tools and makes a great addition to any PCB flow. The HyperLynx Family provides a complete flow of analysis that combines design rule checking and comprehensive signal integrity simulation. Interconnect models are created using highly accurate 3D EM solvers. Validate designs before fabrication with post-layout analyses and evaluate design tradeoffs using pre-layout analyses. Supports SerDes memory interfaces and general-purpose signal integrity. Power-delivery networks (PDNs) can be designed and validated in a simple-to-use environment to meet impedance targets.

You can either choose an existing power solution, or you can create a new design. You will also find schematics and component lists. You can view or modify your selection and export the design files to MPLAB® Mindi™, Analog Simulator, for analysis and verification. Need help calculating your signal-chain noise budget? The signal chain signal to noise calculator tool allows you to perform a complete analysis of your signal chains. It is intuitive, flexible, and easy to use. The interface is simple and requires very little data inputs. Integrated design generators are used to create new power designs and refine existing designs. It is easy to switch from selecting the power solution to verifying the design. No software download is required to use the online signal chain signal-to noise calculator.

Today's companies are faced with complex design challenges as well as tight budgets. eCADSTAR is much more than a PCB layout software. It includes simulation, 3D MCAD integration and wire harness support. All built on the most recent technology to provide enterprise-level performance at a reasonable cost. eCADSTAR's intuitive UI makes it a compelling choice for designers. eCADSTAR's design capabilities can be leveraged to simplify and accelerate your design process. The digitally connected library, intuitive schematic capture and tools to accelerate PCB Layout Engineering allow engineers to spend less time manipulating the tool, and more time doing what they love: innovating creative solutions for today’s technological challenges. The test plan is one of the most tedious parts of the design process. Without adequate upfront simulation, validation can be expensive in both time and money. eCADSTAR's capabilities for Spice simulation and SI/PI analysis deliver test cycle time reductions.

Ansys RedHawk SC is the industry's most trusted standard for voltage drop and electromigration multiphysics sign off solutions for digital designs. Its powerful analytics quickly detect weaknesses and allow for what-if explorations to optimize power efficiency and performance. Redhawk-SC's cloud-based architecture allows it to perform full-chip analysis. All major foundries have certified signoff accuracy for all finFET Nodes down to 3nm. Ansys RedHawk SC enables robust digital designs that are low-power and perform well. This is possible thanks to advanced power analytics which give designers detailed techniques to detect and correct dynamic voltage drops. Ansys RedHawk SC's trusted multiphysics signingoff analysis is a powerful tool to reduce technology and project risk. RedHawk's algorithms have been proven to be accurate by all major finFET process foundries and are certified by all major findries.

EAGLE (electronic design automation) software allows printed circuit board (PCB), designers to seamlessly connect schematic diagrams and component placement. It also includes comprehensive library content. EAGLE offers a variety of PCB layout tools that will help you bring your design to life. Drag and drop reusable blocks between your projects. To ensure your schematic stays on track, validate your design using a complete set electronic rule checks. All changes are automatically synchronized between your layout and schematic, so you can concentrate on the creative process. You can control your design flow and avoid any unexpected surprises by using fully customizable PCB design rules. You can rest assured that your next design will be completed with worry-free libraries. Our growing catalog allows you to find and place parts dynamically.

The MPLAB®, Mindi™, Analog Simulator reduces design time and design risks by simulating analog circuits before hardware prototyping. The simulation tool uses a SIMetrix/SIMPLIS simulation platform, which allows for the use of SPICE and piecewise linear modeling. This simulation environment can be used to simulate a wide range of simulation requirements. This simulation interface can be paired with Microchip's proprietary model files to model specific Microchip components as well as generic circuit devices. This simulation tool runs locally on your computer. The simulation tool is free to download and does not require an Internet connection. Also, the simulation run time does not depend on remote servers. The simulation results are fast and accurate. The simulation tool can be run directly on your PC.

Synopsys HSPICE circuit sim is the industry's standard for circuit simulation. It features foundry-certified MOS model models with state of the art simulation and analysis algorithms. HSPICE, with over 25 years of success in design tape outs and a comprehensive circuit simulator, is the industry's most trusted. On-chip simulation: analog designs, RF, custom digital, standard cell design and character, memory design and characterisation, device model development. For off-chip signal integrity simulation, silicon-to-package-to-board-to-backplane analysis and simulation. HSPICE is a key component of Synopsys analog/mixed signal (AMS) verification suite. It addresses the most important issues in AMS verification. HSPICE is the industry's standard for circuit simulation accuracy and offers MOS device models that have been foundry-certified. It also includes state-of-the art simulation and analysis algorithms.

Ansys RaptorH electromagnetic modeling software can model power grids, full custom blocs, spiral inductors and clock trees. High-speed distributed processing allows for accurate, silicon-proven RLCk and S-parameter models. RaptorH is capable of analysing partial and unfinished layouts in the design phase. It makes it easy to use either RaptorX, the silicon-optimized RaptorX engines for silicon structures, or the general purpose HFSS engine. Ansys RaptorH extracts electromagnetic model at the pre-LVS stage to allow for arbitrary routing and layout. This includes planes (solid and perforated), spiral inductors and MiM/MoM capacitators - with automatic setting boundary conditions. The GUI allows for point-and-click net selection as well as what-if analyses. RaptorH can be used to create analyses using either the HFSS engine or the Raptor engine. It is supported by all major silicon findries.

PCB Layout is a high level engineering tool for board design. It features smart manual routing of high speed and differential signals, shape based autorouter and advanced verification. It also has wide import/export capabilities. The design requirements are defined by net class rules, class-to class rules, and the specific settings by object types for each layer or class. DipTrace's design process includes real-time DRC. This allows for quick reporting of errors before they are made. The board can be viewed in 3D, and exported for mechanical CAD modeling. The final product will be of highest quality thanks to the design rule check. This includes detailed detailing, net connectivity verification, comparing to the source schematic, and an in-depth description. DipTrace is a single environment that allows for direct circuit-to board converting, updating from schematic, back annotation, and more. Nets can be divided into net classes using custom settings and rules that vary from class to class. Via styles can be used to organize through and blind/buried vias.

Real-time collaboration, a simple simulator and forkable community content make it easier to build hardware more efficiently. Modern sharing, permissions and an easy-to use version control system allow you to harness collective intelligence. We believe in open-source. Flux's ever-growing library of schematics and parts makes it easy to get started quickly. Finally, a programmable simulation that doesn't require a PHD. You can view your schematic online before you start building. Flux is the place to go for great hardware projects, no matter if you're designing hardware for the next Mars mission or a simple circuit board. Flux is a browser-based, end-to-end electronic design platform that breaks down all barriers. Flux is doing something new and we're doing it in a unique way. It's called building openly. Join our community of makers, engineers, and entrepreneurs who are passionately interested in improving hardware design tools.

During interactive editing, automatically heal damaged copper areas. Design selections made by the user can be easily refined. Move components and enclosures interactively in a 3D environment, with real-time detection of clashes. If you have specific technology requirements, you can benefit from advanced features like embedded components, chip-on-board, and flexi-rigid designs. Pulsonix allows you to create your own BOMs, PCB acceptance reports and netlists. You can use our standard formats or create them yourself. Construction lines are unique to Pulsonix and allow you to define your own lines to guide your design. Construction lines allow you to create complex board outlines, or align irregular shapes. Define rules to automatically create naming conventions for existing and new styles.

CAM350®, the industry standard for verification, optimization, and output generation, is part of DownStream Technologies' truly integrated manufacturing data preparation system. To ensure timely and successful manufacture of bare boards, today's complex PCB designs must be thoroughly verified before they can be transferred to the PCB fabricator. Problems during PCB fabrication can have a significant impact on product schedules. They can also result in costly design changes and modifications that could compromise the design's integrity or intent. The PCB design can be checked, prepared, and validated before it is released to manufacturing. This will allow for greater efficiency, a lower risk of design respin, and ultimately, more successful electronic products that are built faster and at a lower cost.

Design Force is a revolutionary innovation in electrical design. It allows you to break down the boundaries of your electrical design process. The process of designing a product is becoming more complex. This often involves technologies that are difficult or impossible to use ECAD tools to address. Design Force allows design teams to access system-level design information as early as the planning and conceptual phases. This allows them to layout each product board while simultaneously considering the entire system view. Design Force uses the most current industry hardware and software. Users can design in a native 3D environment. This allows them to achieve optimal performance by using native 64-bit, multithreading, multicore processors. Design Force is compatible with multiple client-server implementations. You can also work from your corporate cloud.

PowerPro offers the most comprehensive set of features to RTL designers to "design-for-low-power". It offers power estimations for both RTL- and Gate-level designs. Early power checks are available to quickly identify power issues during RTL design development. Clock and memory gating is also offered to optimize the design. PowerPro offers the most comprehensive set of features to RTL designers to "design-for-low-power". It provides power analysis for RTL and gate level designs, early power checking to quickly identify power issues during RTL design, and clock and Memory gating for optimizing the design for power. PowerPro provides highly accurate estimations within 10% of the signoff. This technology is based on advanced engines which enable a wide range of analysis capabilities. PowerPro's automatic optimization produces low-power RTL with integrated logic equivalence checks. PowerPro's automatic power optimization is the only low-power RTL technology on the market that has been proven.

You can quickly design advanced board layouts using interactive routing and the intelligent SitusTM Autorouting technology. With Native 3D™, PCB editing and STEP support, you can collaborate effortlessly with your mechanical design team. Advanced electronics can be accurately simulated and shipped using integrated XSPICE digital and analog simulations. With hierarchical schematic capture and constraint-driven PCB layout technology, you can quickly transform your ideas into reality. With an intuitive interface and customizable workflow, you can instantly get started on your next design project. Altium designer and EAGLE compatibility allow you to access your entire design history. With real-time availability and pricing data from hundreds of suppliers, you will never miss another deadline. With the Circuitstudio content library, you can quickly create custom parts.

CircuitMaker is more than an Altium EDA software tool. It's a community of creative people, sharing design content, and working together to create circuits and electronic products for a better tomorrow. You need tools that don't limit your creativity or hold you back from turning great ideas into products. CircuitMaker gives you all the power to create high-quality schematics and Printed Circuit Boards. There are no artificial limitations on board area or layer count. It's also free. CircuitMaker is a place where you can find great reference designs and promote and rate other projects. You can even create teams to collaborate on design projects. We believe you deserve better tools to help you turn your great ideas into reality. CircuitMaker was born. CircuitMaker is not only a community for electronic design content but also Schematic and PCB design software.

Online PCB design software that is professional-grade and offers free technical support. PCB artist features include multi-page schematics, Netlist import, and more. Advanced circuits' online PCB software is easy to use and is the best free PCB layout software. Our PCB design software is a big reason why our customers love doing business with Advanced Circuits. We help you design printed circuit boards correctly, which will save you time and money.