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Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Cadence Debuts Industry’s First Analog IC Design-for-Reliability Solution

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today introduced the Cadence® Legato™ Reliability Solution, the industry’s first software product that meets the challenges of designing high-reliability analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) for automotive, medical, industrial, and aerospace and defense applications. The Legato Reliability Solution provides analog designers with the tools they need to manage their design’s reliability throughout the product lifecycle, from initial test through active life through aging.

Based on the golden, trusted Cadence Spectre® Accelerated Parallel Simulator and the Cadence Virtuoso® custom IC design platform, the Legato Reliability Solution integrates capabilities into an intuitive cockpit to address the reliability concerns of the three phases of the product lifecycle:

  • Analog defect analysis accelerates analog defect simulation by up to 100X, reducing test cost and eliminating test escapes, the main source of early failure in IC designs
  • Electro-thermal analysis avoids premature failures due to thermal overstress during the product’s useful life
  • Advanced aging analysis enables accurate prediction of product wear-out by analyzing aging acceleration due to temperature and process variation.

For more information on the Legato Reliability Solution, visit www.cadence.com/go/legatoreliability.

“Since electronics are the key elements in many mission-critical applications, designing the chips to meet requirements across the entire product lifecycle has become a huge challenge,” said Tom Beckley, Cadence senior vice president and general manager, custom IC and PCB Group. “Designers are faced with the challenge of designing across the entire lifecycle, including eliminating the test escapes that become field failures early in the life cycle, preventing thermal overstress from operating in extreme conditions like under the hood of a car, and designing for 15 years or more of operating lifetime. Our new Legato Reliability solution enables designers to answer these critical questions much earlier in the design process.”

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