Cadence ENCOUNTER LIBRARY CHARACTERIZER Datasheet
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ENCOUNTER LIBRARY
CHARACTERIZER
Power and process variation concerns are growing along with other
challenges for digital IC designers. To get the most out of today’s
large, low-power designs, engineers need advanced modeling
formats to support their cutting-edge digital design flows. Cadence
®
Encounter
®
Library Characterizer meets these ever-increasing
modeling needs by providing high throughput. This includes highly
accurate characterization technology that supports the latest timing,
noise, power, and statistical variation modeling formats.
ENCOUNTER LIBRARY
CHARACTERIZER
Major IP providers and digital design
teams rely on Encounter Library
Characterizer for its simplified setup and
accurate model generation for standard
cells and I/O cells. Built on the solid
foundations of Cadence SignalStorm
®
technology—the first characterization
solution available for the advanced
Effective Current Source Model (ECSM)—
Encounter Library Characterizer has a
long history of providing accurate model
generation. IP providers will benefit from
its fast and accurate characterization and
parallel simulation capabilities and will
be ready to meet the current and future
customer demand for advanced timing,
noise, power, and statistical variation
library models.
One of the problems designers face when
implementing a power savings strategy
or moving to smaller process nodes is the
need for numerous, more advanced sets
of standard-cell libraries. For ASIC and
CoT designers, this can be a real barrier to
Figure 1: Encounter Library Characterizer flow
Noise
Power
Timing
Encounter
Library
Characterizer
Spectre Simulator
Cell
Netlist
Spectre/
SPICE
Models
.lib
HTML
VHDL
Verilog
ECSM
Noise
Power
Stat.
CCS
Timing
Setup
• process
• voltage
• temperature
• input slew
• output load