Alphawave Semi – Designing High-Speed Connectivity Solutions with Cadence Tools

Alphawave Semi designs high-speed connectivity solutions for customers in high-growth end markets. Its leading-edge technology pushes the boundaries of wired connectivity capabilities, enabling data to travel faster and more reliably while using lower power. The team designs high-performance, high-power chips with a silicon interposer substrate with hundreds of high-speed SerDes lanes.

Traditional analog methods cannot handle the complexity of today’s data demands. Alphawave Semi’s industry-leading, unified, DSP-based platform provides its customers with proven solutions to the world’s most complex connectivity problems. The platform supports five product families, which comprise nearly 60 products, allowing the team to optimize their connectivity solutions for each customer’s specific needs.

Alphawave Semi’s main challenge now is completing complex designs while meeting extremely tight schedules without compromising on quality. To tackle these hurdles, they on Cadence tools for design and analysis. Cadence Clarity 3D Solver Cloud is a powerful tool that can easily handle large, complex designs. It provided Alphawave Semi with very stable and powerful compute resources to analyze their 112G SerDes interfaces accurately.

Celsius PowerDC is extensively used to map current distributions from the die to verify IR drop in electrical DRC compliance. Sigrity X PowerSI is used to model the power distribution network, including on-package decoupling capacitors with distributed ports on the die to analyze supply impedance and supply-to-supply coupling.

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