GoldenGate Product Configuration

The GoldenGate product structure is simple and easy to configure and has fewer elements that include more application-focused value.

GoldenGate solutions enable you to:

  • Simulate RF designs without leaving the Cadence Virtuoso environment
  • Assess seamlessly key figures of merits like EVM, BER with the same accuracy as Keysight instruments with Virtual Test Benches (VTB)
  • Accurately model components on silicon chips
  • Optimize designs with sweeps and load-pull analysis
  • Increase performance using Monte Carlo and yield analysis
  • In combination with RFPro, evaluate the coupling and interconnections quality on and off-chip with the circuit working in its real non-linear behavior

Applications include Silicon RFIC Design and RF-to-mmWave Design.

GoldenGate Software Bundles

GoldenGate software bundles provide RF & Microwave design engineers with a choice of value-packed, pre-configured combinations of software built for specific RFIC design challenges.

Virtuoso-Only Flow Bundles
Model # Product Name Description
W5802B RFIC Design (GoldenGate), VTB Engine, Complete VTBs Bundle including the GoldenGate simulator, the Virtual Test Bench (VTB) Simulator and Complete Set of VTBs for Radar, 5G/Cellular, WiFi/Connectivity and more.
W5803B RFIC Design (GoldenGate), RFPro Bundle including the GoldenGate simulator and RFPro, including Momentum and FEM Simulators.
W5804B RFIC Design (GoldenGate), VTB Engine, Complete VTBs, RFPro Bundle including the GoldenGate simulator and RFPro, including Momentum and FEM Simulators, the Virtual Test Bench (VTB) Simulator and Complete Set of VTBs for Radar, 5G/Cellular, WiFi/Connectivity and more.

 

ADS & Virtuoso Flow & Packaging Bundles
Model # Product Name Description
W3611B ADS Core + EM Design Core + RFIC Design (GoldenGate) + RF Circuit Sim Bundle including the ADS Core Environment, EM Design Core Environment (EMPro), RFIC Design (GoldenGate) simulator and ADS Linear, Harmonic Balance, Circuit Envelope and RF Transient/Convolution simulators.
W3612B ADS Core + EM Design Core + RFIC Design (GoldenGate) + RF Circuit Sim + VTB Engine + VTB Complete Bundle including the ADS Core Environment, EM Design Core Environment (EMPro), RFIC Design (GoldenGate) simulator and ADS Linear, Harmonic Balance, Circuit Envelope and RF Transient/Convolution simulators, the Virtual Test Bench (VTB) Simulator and Complete Set of VTBs for Radar, 5G/Cellular, WiFi/Connectivity and more.
W3613B ADS Core + EM Design Core + RFIC Design (GoldenGate) + RF Circuit Sim + Layout + RFPro Bundle including the ADS Core Environment, EM Design Core Environment (EMPro), RFIC Design (GoldenGate) simulator and ADS Linear, Harmonic Balance, Circuit Envelope and RF Transient/Convolution simulators, ADS Layout and RFPro, including Momentum and FEM Simulators.
W3614B ADS Core + EM Design Core + RFIC Design (GoldenGate) + RF Circuit Sim + Layout + RFPro + VTB Engine + Complete VTBs Bundle including the ADS Core Environment, EM Design Core Environment (EMPro), RFIC Design (GoldenGate) simulator and ADS Linear, Harmonic Balance, Circuit Envelope and RF Transient/Convolution simulators, ADS Layout and RFPro, including Momentum and FEM Simulators, the Virtual Test Bench (VTB) Simulator and Complete Set of VTBs for Radar, 5G/Cellular, WiFi/Connectivity and more
W3609B ADS Core, EM Design, RFIC Design Quad (GoldenGate), Layout, RFPro, RF Ckt Sim, Sys-Ckt Verif, VTBs Bundle including the ADS Core Environment, EM Design Core Environment (EMPro), RFIC Design (GoldenGate) Quad simulator and ADS Linear, Harmonic Balance, Circuit Envelope and RF Transient/Convolution simulators, ADS Layout and RFPro, including Momentum and FEM Simulators, the Virtual Test Bench (VTB) Simulator and Complete Set of VTBs for Radar, 5G/Cellular, WiFi/Connectivity and more

 

For more information on these bundles, refer to the RFIC Design (GoldenGate) Configuration Guide.

GoldenGate Simulation Elements

Simulation elements are themselves comprised of one or more separate modules, which add additional design and development functions. These modules, which were formerly sold separately, are now grouped together into very efficient and effective combinations which are the bundles listed above.

GoldenGate Elements
Model # Product Name Description
W5500E RFIC Design GoldenGate simulator able to run a single RF simulation within the Virtuoso environment.
W5501E RFIC Design Quad GoldenGate simulator able to run up to 4 simultaneous RF simulations within the Virtuoso environment.

 

Design Environments
Model # Product Name Description
ADSCORE ADS Core Advanced Design System (ADS) Platform Environment, Schematic, Data Display, Verilog A compiler, Broadband SPICE Model Generator, Python Data Link and more.
W4300B EM Design Core Electromagnetic design core is a 3D solid modeling environment for creating arbitrary 3D objects and importing existing models from other CAD environments. Does not include the simulator.

 

Layout
Model # Product Name Description
W3010E ADS Layout Comprehensive physical design environment including native and links to 3rd party DRC, LVS and more.

 

Circuit Simulation
Model # Product Name Description
W3020E RF Circuit Simulation Linear, harmonic balance, circuit envelope, X-Parameter Generator and transient/ convolution circuit simulators.
W5529E RFIC Design Parallel Corners / Monte Carlo Provides multiple simulation licenses for larger regression jobs at an attractive price.

 

Electromagnetic Simulation
Model # Product Name Description
W3030E RFPro Simplified EM analysis user interface integrated in the ADS and Virtuoso environments including Momentum 3D Planar and FEM full 3D EM simulation technologies with predictive expert settings.
W3031E Momentum Momentum3D planar electromagnetic (EM) simulator used for passive circuit modeling and analysis, Combines full-wave and quasi-static EM solvers for RF passives, high-frequency interconnects and parasitic modeling.
W3032E FEM Full wave 3D EM simulation capabilities based on the Finite Element Method (FEM). Includes the RFPro UI for use within ADS.
W3039E EM HPC 1-pack Lower priced EM simulation license for Momentum or FEM distributed High-Performance Computing applications. Combine multiple 1-packs for greater performance. Requires base simulator license.

 

System-Circuit Verification Simulator & VTBs
Model # Product Name Description
W3040E Sys-Ckt Verification Simulator Ptolemy and Verification Test Bench (VTB) dataflow Simulators for verification of circuits in RF-mixed signal systems. Prerequisite for use with Radar, 5G/Cellular, WiFi/Connectivity VTB libraries to verify RF circuits against industry radar, wireless and networking connectivity standards.
W3048E VTB Engine Provides access to the System Design (SystemVue) high-performance dataflow simulation engine and to simulate pre-defined standard-compliant test benches in Advanced Design System (ADS) or with RFIC Design (GoldenGate) to easily validate circuit performance against modulated metrics such as EVM, BER, or ACPR.
W3041E Radar VTB Virtual Test Bench for Radar Applications. Requires VTB Engine.
W3042E 5G & Cellular VTB Virtual Test Bench for 5G & Cellular Applications. Requires VTB Engine.
W3043E WiFi & Connectivity VTB Virtual Test Bench for WiFi and additional wireless connectivity standards Applications. Requires VTB Engine.
W3046E WiMedia, WVAN & DTV VTB irtual Test Bench for WiMedia, WVAN & DTV Applications. Requires VTB Engine
W3049E Complete VTBs Bundle that includes all of the above VTBs.

 

Electrothermal Simulation
Model # Product Name Description
W3050E Electro-Thermal Simulator Temperature-aware circuit simulation results based on state-of-the-art thermal solver technology directly integrated with the ADS layout environment and circuit simulators.

 

Learn more about RFIC Design (GoldenGate).