Virtuosity: Smart View Multi-Process Corners in Virtuoso ADE Assembler and Explorer

The Cadence® Quantus Smart View is the next generation of the Extracted View in the Virtuoso environment and has been available since the release of IC6.18/ICADVM18.1. You may recall my blog about Smart View - Virtuosity: a Smart Extracted View, that introduced this new view.

The Smart View provides the same functionality as the Extracted View, but it uses a highly efficient and scalable storage mechanism. This means that Smart Views can manage larger, more complex designs at advanced nodes with a reduced overall extraction run time and netlist size. In fact, the Smart View not only helps with faster netlist generation in Virtuoso® ADE Assembler and Virtuoso® ADE Explorer, but you can also use it to to analyze values and connectivity details of extracted parasitic elements.

Starting from the IC6.1.8/ICADVM18.1 ISR13 releases, multi-process corners - (MPCs),  are supported in Smart Views too. This means that the design can be extracted over several technology corners and these corners are all contained within one Smart View. 

You can then simulate across these MPCs from within Virtuoso ADE Assembler and Virtuoso ADE Explorer. This is all explained in the updated Using Quantus Smart View in the Virtuoso Analog Design Environment Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK). To download the RAK, click here or search for it on the Cadence Support portal. The RAK details how to:

• Create a Smart View
• Set up ADE to use Smart Views
• Perform in and out-of-context probing
• Display parasitics in layout
• Create parasitic reports
• Use multi-process corners within a Smart View

You can also check out the Using Smart View in the ADE Flow video to see a demo of these features.

Related Resources

• Rapid Adoption Kit

  • Using Quantus Smart View in the Virtuoso Analog Design Environment RAK

• Video

  • Using Smart View in the ADE Flow

• Blog

  • Virtuosity: a Smart Extracted View

• User Guides

  • Virtuoso ADE Assembler User Guide
  • Virtuoso ADE Explorer User Guide
  • Quantus QRC Extraction User Manual 
  • Virtuoso Layout Suite XL User Guide
  • Virtuoso Parasitic Aware Design User Guide

For more information on Cadence circuit design products and services, visit www.cadence.com.

Happy Reading!

Arja

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