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Capture once, re-use many times

Most ASIC and SoC designs contain analog circuitry, especially in the consumer, wireless, and networking IC markets. The analog portion of mixed-signal designs is a crucial differentiator but it's also too often the cause of schedule delays and yield problems. Since most analog design involves the re-implementation of legacy circuits for new processes, a simple solution to these problems would be to re-use proven circuits. The typical analog design flow, however, provides very little re-use leverage. What is needed, therefore, is a set of tools that enables designers to capture a design once and re-use it many times.

Ciranova™ has developed such a toolset. Ciranova's Core Technology brings the productivity advantages of language-based design to analog and mixed-signal designers, enabling the creation of reusable and migratable layout generators.

 

XPyCell
Universal OpenAccess PCells, created using Ciranova's PyCell Studio software. PyCells are authored using the popular Python programming language, hence the name.
XAMS
Analog/Mixed Signal
XPyros Layout Viewer
A component of Ciranova's PyCell Studio software. The Pyros Layout Viewer can open any OpenAccess block, select layout objects for examination, and manipulate PyCell parameters. Pyros also includes a built-in design rule checker that allows users to check the layout interactively.