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
- ADS Physical LVS
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LVS for IC and RF Board designs based on physical connections in the layout.
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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
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Provides ease of troubleshooting LVS errors.
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Run Pin Nets LVS to check that each sub-design is LVS clean.
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Browse the design using the hierarchical view and inspect the mapped components at each level of hierarchy.
- Layout net names from Schematic
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Bring net names from schematic into layout using the “Differences from Schematic” docking window.
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Layout net names appear in the Navigator and the LVS report making it easy to identify and highlight important nets.
Design Rule Check (DRC)
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DRC for IC, Module and RF Board designs.
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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.
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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.
Learn more about Keysight Advanced Design System (ADS) Simulation Elements