CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
12 September 2007
Product News
Synopsys HSPICE Simulator and SiSoft Quantum-SI Combine to Deliver Robust Signal Integrity Analysis Solution
Synopsys, Inc . and Signal Integrity Software, Inc. (SiSoftT) jointly announced the integration of SiSoft's Quantum-SIT tool and Synopsys' HSPICE® simulation solution to deliver timing and signal integrity analysis for package and printed circuit board (PCB) design.
SiSoft's Quantum-SI tool targets high-speed digital interface design, allowing users to rapidly achieve design closure. Quantum-SI provides an environment around HSPICE that automates the analysis of entire interfaces for both timing and signal integrity, providing accurate predictions of system-level voltage and timing margins in a fraction of the time required by traditional methods. Quantum-SI provides exhaustive pre-layout and post-layout analysis capabilities that allow designers to rapidly analyze the consequences of potential design changes and adjust the design's implementation to optimize margins. HSPICE provides fast and high-accuracy signal integrity simulation through advanced transistor, Verilog-A, IBIS, W-element and S-element modeling support. Signal integrity analysis can be a compute-intensive task, and Quantum-SI leverages computer server farms to run HSPICE's high-accuracy simulations in parallel, increasing analytical throughput.
"HSPICE is widely recognized as the preferred sign-off tool for signal integrity simulations," noted Todd Westerhoff, vice president of Software Products for SiSoft. "Quantum-SI extends HSPICE to provide a comprehensive design and analysis environment for pre- and post-route analysis that allows customers to seamlessly mix IBIS and transistor-level models. Our customers have benefited greatly from HSPICE's accuracy and scalability for detailed signal integrity and power modeling applications."
"Package and board designers appreciate HSPICE's unique ability to perform accurate signal integrity simulation from silicon-to-package-to-board-to- backplane," said Bijan Kiani, vice president of Product Marketing at Synopsys. "The integration with Quantum-SI effectively extends HSPICE to provide a comprehensive design analysis and signal integrity regression environment for today's most demanding design problems."
SiSoft and Synopsys are committed to working together to continually improve the integration between their respective toolsets.
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