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SMIC, Cadence Aim to Streamline Wireless Design in China
To deliver a Radio-Frequency (RF) Design Methodology Kit to the China RF IC design market, Shanghai, China-based semiconductor foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) is working with San Jose-based design tool market leader Cadence Design Systems Inc. to develop process-design kits (PDKs). The kits will support the Cadence RF Design Methodology Kit and will validate the CMOSRF 180nm PDKs in a test chip by the end of the year. As well, the companies said they will jointly deliver RFIC methodology workshops and provide RF Kit Applicability Consulting to Chinese RF designers.
With this collaboration, wireless chip designers in China are expected to have the tools to achieve shorter, more predictable design cycles by ensuring that silicon performance matches design intent, the companies said.
“There are many techniques peculiar to wireless. A design kit with recommendations on methodologies and tools is a benefit to our customers. Our collaboration with Cadence on RF design will help customers in China design and deliver high-quality RF devices,” said Paul Ouyang, VP of design services at SMIC, in a statement.
The RF Methodology Kit includes an 802.11 b/g WLAN transceiver reference design, along with block-, chip-, and system-level testbenches, simulation setups, test plans, and applicability training on the RF design and analysis methodologies.
The kit focuses on top-down RF IC design and full-chip verification and addresses behavioral modeling, circuit simulation, layout, parasitic extraction and resimulation, and inductor synthesis along with IC verification within a system context, leveraging system-level models and testbenches for use by designers in the IC environment.
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