Siemens Digital Industries Software has recently launched the Symphony™ Pro platform, which is based on the original Symphony mixed-signal verification capabilities, and further expands its functions to support the new Accellera standardized verification methodology with a comprehensive and intuitive visual debugging integrated environment, making production more efficient than traditional solutions. Up to 10 times faster.
Next-generation automotive, imaging, IoT, 5G, compute and storage applications are driving strong demand for analog and mixed-signal content in SoCs. Mixed-signal circuits are increasingly common, such as integrating analog signal chains with digital front ends (DFEs) in 5G massive MIMO radios, digital RF sampling data converters in radar systems, integrating analog pixel readout circuits with digital image signal processing Combined image sensors, use advanced mixed-signal circuitry to feed more data to data center computing resources to provide PAM4 signals, and more. For these applications, mixed-signal circuits help reduce power consumption, area, and cost, while delivering ever-improving performance.
"Mixed-signal functional verification is increasingly important for our complex designs for the imaging and automotive industries," said Stephane Vivien, Senior CAD Manager, Imaging at STMicroelectronics. "We are involved in the Early Access Program for Symphony Pro, the advanced The debug capabilities and seamless support for multi-layer sandwich constructions help us significantly increase productivity. We look forward to Symphony Pro being the sign-off solution for our current and future mixed-signal verification projects.”
The increasing use of digital control, digital calibration, and digital signal processing techniques in modern mixed-signal chip architectures is driving a shift in mixed-signal verification methodologies to be digital-centric. Siemens' new Symphony Pro platform, based on the user-proven Siemens Symphony and Questa™ Visualizer platforms, extends the rapid deployment of industry-standard Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and Unified Power Format (UPF)-driven low-power technologies to mixed-signal domain, providing fast simulation capabilities in a unified environment for exceptional throughput and capacity.
Modern mixed-signal SoCs integrate analog circuits with logic gates running at extremely high clock speeds. This high-frequency bidirectional signal flow at the analog and digital boundary pushes the limits of manual tuning methods, affecting the overall time to results. The Symphony Pro Visualizer MS environment provides a seamless debugging experience across the entire mixed-signal design hierarchy, and its comprehensive analysis, automation, and ease-of-use help increase productivity.
"The high-performance, power-efficient chips we design for IoT are inherently analog-intensive mixed-signal architectures. To ensure high quality, we have extended our digital verification methodology to support efficient regression of mixed-signal designs," Silicon Labs Advanced CAD Jayanth Shreedhara, Manager, said: "Symphony Pro Visualizer mixed-signal technology has accelerated the debug turnaround time of our digital top-level UVM test suite, reducing our verification time from days to hours, increasing productivity while significantly improving coverage convergence. ."
"Our customers are rapidly advancing advanced mixed-signal SoC designs in a variety of applications, and in the process, they are also driving corresponding EDA tool innovations," said Ravi Subramanian, senior vice president, IC Verification, Siemens Digital Industries Software. The new Symphony Pro Combining our proven technologies from AFS, Questa and Visualizer helps customers gain a key competitive advantage with a unified mixed-signal verification solution."
