Unfamiliar and confused about analog-on-top design flow and tools

I am not sure what the best tools and flow is to create, synthesize, test, and layout, the digital part of my mixed signal design. So far I have seen that I can use Xcelium to test verilog and simulate it, Genus to synthesize verilog into gates and a netlist, and Innovus for placement and routing. I would like to know if this is the cleanest design flow I can follow or if there is a simpler combination of tools I can use to design and layout the digital logic for my mixed signal design. Additionally, if I did do the design this way and brought a netlist into virtuoso to test along side my analog circuitry, would the Spectre AMS Designer be the best tool for verification? I'm fairly new to these tools and mixed-signal design, despite lots of searching I'm still confused so I would appreciate help.