Industry’s fastest and most versatile mixed-signal platform
The Symphony Mixed-Signal Platform is the industry’s fastest and most configurable mixed-signal solution to accurately verify design functionality, connectivity, and performance across A/D interfaces at all levels of the design hierarchy and for all IC applications. Symphony’s modular architecture leverages Siemens’ Analog FastSPICE (AFS) circuit simulator to provide the fastest mixed-signal simulation performance with nanometer (nm) SPICE accuracy and capacity of 20M SPICE elements. With certified accuracy by the world’s leading foundries, AFS delivers 5–10x faster performance than traditional SPICE and > 2x faster performance than parallel SPICE simulators. Symphony has been proven on a wide range of ICs and IC subsystems including ADCs, transceivers, PMICs, multi GHz PLLs/DLLs, and sensors.
Key Features:
Fastest accurate mixed-signal simulation
- Fully leverages AFS advantages
- Foundry certified nm SPICE accuracy
- > 5-10x faster analog solver than traditional SPICE solvers
- > 2-6x faster analog solver than parallel SPICE solvers
Fully configurable architecture
- Fit-to-purpose architecture and design-aware technologies
- Supports industry-leading digital solvers
- Extensible to all Siemens Digital Industries Software analog solvers
- Provides maximum reuse of verification infrastructure
- Integrated into leading schematic capture flows
- Provides comprehensive language support
Best-in-class usability and setup
- Support for analog/digital-centric flows
- Simple and intuitive configuration file format
- Ability to reuse A/D command-line arguments
- Powerful A/D boundary element support
- Efficient waveform viewing with Ezwave
- Save/restore capability for enhanced productivity
Advanced verification & debug
- Mixed-signal Hi-Z detection
- Solido Variation Designer integration
- Back-End browser with cross-probing
- Tcl interactive mode for runtime debugging
