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Ansys RedHawk-SC
Ansys RedHawk-SC is the industry software of choice for power noise and reliability signoff for digital IP and SoCs down to 3nm and built on cloud-native elastic compute architecture.
Digital Power Integrity Signoff for Semiconductors
Simulate EM/IR Drop Solutions for Digital IP and SoCs
Ansys RedHawk-SC advanced power analytics (APA) deliver high coverage for capturing dynamic power supply noise, thereby avoiding frequency loss due to unexpected dynamic voltage drop (DvD).
- It’s all-inclusive DvD diagnostics immediately capture and measure the causes of dynamic IR-drop. A rich GUI and ‘what-if’ capability instantaneously report the voltage impact of design changes for IR ECO fixing.
- In addition, it analyzes thermal-aware current density in both signal and power net and provides statistical electomigration budgeting. Both vector and vectorless activity inputs are supported with advanced analytic capabilities that determine the timing impact of voltage variability.
- Full-system thermal and power integrity co-simulation for chips and 2.5D/3D-IC packages, including package signal integrity and thermal-mechanical stress and warpage.
Ansys RedHawk-SC Core Features
Tackling Physical Verification Complexity with Elastic Compute & Big Data Analytics
- RedHawk-SC’s trusted multiphysics signoff analysis is a powerful way to reduce project and technology risk.
- RedHawk’s algorithms are certified accurate by all major foundries for all finFET processes and are authenticated in thousands of tapeouts.
- Advanced power analytics capabilities will calculate the timing impact of IR-drop, with coverage optimized to maximize possible activity scenarios.
- These broad, silicon-correlated simulation outcomes provide designers the confidence needed to achieve higher performance and lower power by evading wasteful and expensive overdesign.
- In addition, thermal analysis and multi-die system analysis is enabled with the RedHawk-SC Electrothermal optionality, which adds full-system thermal and power integrity co-simulation for chips and 2.5D/3D-IC packages, inclusive of package signal integrity and thermal-mechanical stress and warpage.
Debugging Static IR Drop in Ansys RedHawk-SC
Ansys RedHawk-SC | Integrated Electronics Reliability Signoff
Dynamic and static voltage drop analysis for full chip or IP signoff with Advanced Power Analytics (APA) to provide root-cause analysis for voltage drop and measure the quality of power distribution networks.
- Electromigration (EM) is a serious reliability issue in power grid networks. The via array structures possess special EM characteristics and often suffer from Joule heating and current overcrowding, tightly associated to EM violations.
- Through Redhawk-SC, power grid EM analyses can be developed to solve temperature variation impacts for the via array EM.
- The computational models are based on the temperature-aware EM model, which imitates the effects of self-heating and thermal coupling of interlocked lines in a power grid.
- In addition, current density and thermal-aware electromigration (EM) analysis for both power supply metal and signal interconnect with statistical EM budgeting is provided.
- Dynamic voltage drop (DvD) diagnostics identify switching aggressors and minimize the number of ECO changes needed to fix DvD timing issues.
- Critical timing paths are analyzed with variable voltage SPICE accuracy using Ansys PathFX.
- Embedded software contains explicit voltage drop calculator, which automatically adjusts to electrical circuit dimensions based on the wire size, distance, and anticipated load current.
- Multi-scenario activity patterns provide comprehensive coverage to identify dynamic power supply noise and avoid voltage drop escapes that cause frequency loss.
- These can be generated automatically (vectorless) or can be loaded by the customer (FSDB, VCD, etc.).
- RedHawk-SC in combination with RedHawk-SC Electrothermal can analyze power integrity and reliability of multi-die 2.5D/3D systems.
- This includes full thermal analysis and links to Ansys board/system-level tools and Ansys electromagnetic analysis.
- In addition, RedHawk-SC offers a rich GUI interface to display results of its Advanced Power Analytics and to enable What-If analysis of a power distribution network.
- It can also provide instantaneous feedback on the voltage drop effects of cell swapping and sizing for incremental IR ECO fixing.
- RedHawk-SC is built on the SeaScape big data analytics platform that is designed for cloud execution on 1,000s of CPU cores with near linear scalability and extremely high capacity with low memory per core.
- Cloud native means ongoing integration and continuous delivery of software on dynamic, ephemeral, and autoscaling workloads. Your product design deserves this level of dynamism as observability solution needs the ability to ingest telemetry from your dynamic and evolving ecosystem.
- Our elastic observability providers engineers with unified and actionable usability insights for your cloud-native tech stack, pulling all of your logs, metrics, and traces together, contextualized to your products core design needs.
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