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Cadence AMS Methodology Kit

The Cadence® AMS Methodology Kit addresses analog/mixed-signal design challenges across some of today's most competitive markets, including wireless, wired networking, and personal entertainment electronics. The Kit delivers a verified methodology, enabling IP, and consulting, all of which is demonstrated on an end-to-end mixed-signal design example.

The Cadence AMS Methodology Kit is based on the Cadence Advanced Custom Design methodology. This methodology executes a "meet in the middle" design approach that achieves an optimum balance between the needs for speed and silicon accuracy.

Key benefits

	Establishes a design process that allows teams to work with the analog mixed-signal content in the context of the complete design through upfront simulation and physical design planning
	Allows effective use of parasitic data through first-cut route and top-level parasitic extraction evolving to block-level and targeted post-layout re-simulation
	Enables reuse and migration of analog mixed-signal blocks through a repeatable block creation method
	Lets designers manage multiple power supplies through top-down methodology for defining voltage supplies

The Kit executes to a prescribed methodology

Advanced Custom Design Methodology

AMS Kit key functional areas, scenarios and modules

1.	Methodology Overview
2.	Environment Infrastructure
3.	Design Partitioning
4.	Design Concept Validation
5.	Constraint-driven IP Create & Re-use
6.	Block IP Yield Optimization
7.	Block IP Characterization
8.	External Block IP Import
9.	Design Floorplanning
10.	Design Performance Validation
11.	Digital Block Authoring and Inter-operability
12.	Design Physical Assembly
13.	Design Physical Verification
14.	Post-layout Design Sign-off Functional Validation
15.	Design IP Publishing for Re-use

	Facilitate top-down development in context of the entire design (Top-down functional verification Flow)
	Enable IP block reuse and migration (AMS block IP creation and re-use Flow)
	Incorporate digital implementation in the context of analog with an Analog-driven (Top-down physical design Flow)

Components of the Cadence AMS Methodology Kit