Keysight EDA boosts simulation support for Tower RF
Keysight Technologies has expanded the simulation capabilities in its Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software suite to include electro-thermal simulation for the Tower Semiconductor SiGe Power Amplifier (PA) process.
Together with process design kits (PDKs) for Tower radio frequency (RF) technologies for circuit and physical designs, the electro-thermal simulation boosts the use of the Advanced Design System (ADS), RFPro, and RFIC Design (GoldenGate) design tools.
Platform interoperability allows IC designers to access Keysight simulation technologies independent of which schematic or layout environment they use to generate the design. Tower offers silicon germanium (SiGe) foundry services for both high-speed and high-power and RF silicon-on-insulator (SOI) for differentiated RF front-end designs.
“Tower has been successfully collaborating with Keysight to solve the most complex RF problems for our customers andKeysight supports our RF PDKs for design and simulation in ADS with accurate electromagnetic analysis in RFPro,” said Dr. Samir Chaudhry, Senior Director of Design Enablement at Tower Semiconductor Enablement of Keysight’s differentiated electro-thermal solution in ADS for Tower’s SiGe PA processes is a welcome move that is already helping RF SiGe customers perform accurate thermal analyses of their designs.”
Nilesh Kamdar, Senior Director and RF/Microwave Portfolio Manager at Keysight, said: “Keysight and Tower have been partnering for more than a decade to enable our mutual customer design flows with advanced RF solutions, helping them to achieve faster time-to-market. This year, our partnership achieved another milestone by providing electro-thermal simulation capability for Tower’s RF SiGe processes as part of ADS. Using this new capability, customers can ensure that their ICs perform within acceptable operating temperatures prior to manufacturing.”
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