Full-featured mixed-signal simulation

   Allegro AMS Simulator Datasheet

Allegro AMS Simulator provides complete pre- and post-layout testing for analog and mixed-signal designs with powerful simulation, debugging, design, and analysis utilities.

Cadence® Allegro® AMS Simulator includes PSpice® technology at the core, providing fast and accurate simulations. This Advanced Analysis package includes utilities for sensitivity analysis, goal-based multi-parameter optimization, component stress and reliability analysis, and Monte Carlo analysis for yield estimation. The parametric plotter analyzes interdependence among parameters and converts simulation data into meaningful results. When combined with Allegro Design Authoring, the schematics drawn in AMS Simulator can also drive PCB layout—significantly reducing design time and eliminating redrawing errors. It includes a large library of known models and behavioral modeling techniques that make refining the analog/digital interface a straightforward task.

Cadence® Allegro® AMS Simulator is a full-featured analog and mixed-signal simulator supporting everything from high-frequency systems to low-power IC designs. Advanced features enable "what if" analyses, allowing engineers to explore various design configurations before committing to final implementation. The powerful and robust simulation engine of Allegro AMS Simulator integrates easily with Allegro Design Entry CIS for design entry and Allegro Design Authoring for schematic capture. It allows engineers to create designs, control simulations, and interpret the results in a single environment.

Allegro AMS Simulator and The MathWorks' MATLAB Simulink package integrates two industry-leading simulation tools in a powerful co-simulation environment (SLPS). Together, they give designers the ability to perform system-level simulations that include realistic electrical models of actual components. Design and integration problems can be discovered much earlier in the design process, reducing the number of prototypes needed to execute the design.

SLPS integration allows designers to interface the Allegro AMS Simulator / PSpice circuit with Simulink and then observe the waveforms after Simulink-Allegro AMS Simulator / PSpice co-simulation

Features/Benefits

• Provides fast, accurate analysis of analog and mixed-signal designs
• Integrates seamlessly with Allegro Design Entry HDL
• Performs AC, DC, noise, transient, and parameter sweep analyses
• Includes magnetic parts editor for transformer and inductor design
• Utilizes a large inventory of accurate internal models with temperature effects
• Describes functional blocks using editable behavioral models
• Includes library of more than 20,000 known devices and components
• Provides automatic circuit optimizer to increase performance
• Performs circuit sensitivity, component stress, and productive yield analyses
• Interfaces with MATLAB Simulink for advanced electrical modeling