W2320EP Advanced Layout Element

The Advanced Design System (ADS) Advanced Layout Element:

• Layout Versus Schematic (LVS)
• Design Rule Check (DRC)
• DRC and LVS 3rd party tools
• Manufacturing Grid
• Silicon dummy metal fill utility

The W2320EP Advanced Layout Element provides access to additional ADS layout capabilities for layout verification, manufacturing grid and Silicon RFIC utilities.

Layout versus Schematic (LVS)

• ADS Module LVS
  • LVS for multi-technology module designs.
  • Module designs contain an IC footprint with area pins or a nested IC with pad components.
  • Checks the connections at the module level and connections through the bond wires to the pads in the IC. (Patent pending)
• ADS Device Recognition LVS

  • Rules-based LVS for IC designs.

• ADS Physical LVS

  • LVS for IC and RF Board designs based on physical connections in the layout.

  • Uses component area pins and layer bindings to form physical nets. Includes all shapes on conductive layers when forming physical nets, which provides accurate detection of shorts. (Patented)

• ADS Pin Nets LVS

  • Provides ease of troubleshooting LVS errors.

  • Run Pin Nets LVS to check that each sub-design is LVS clean.

  • Browse the design using the hierarchical view and inspect the mapped components at each level of hierarchy.

• Layout net names from Schematic

  • Bring net names from schematic into layout using the “Differences from Schematic” docking window.

  • Layout net names appear in the Navigator and the LVS report making it easy to identify and highlight important nets.

Design Rule Check (DRC)

• DRC for IC, Module and RF Board designs.

• Select rule categories to run a subset of the rules, or run the full set of rules with DRC running in the background, while the layout window stays active.

• ADS DRC runs on your local machine keeping your data secure.

DRC and LVS 3rd party tools

• Run DRC and LVS 3rd party tools and highlight errors in the layout window.
• Import 3rd party DRC results into the DRC dialog.

Manufacturing Grid

• Identify layout objects which are off grid and quickly align off grid objects to the manufacturing grid, with manual off-grid override.

Silicon RFIC Utilities

• Generate dummy metal fills for silicon RFICs.
• Check that the design meets the target required metal density.
• Validate metal-fill effects on the design with Momentum early in the design process.

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