Artist Link

Description

Education Services can help you acquiring the skills needed to develop your knowledge and improve your usage of Artist Link interface. This tool allows to run Mentor analog and mixed-signal simulators (Eldo and ADVance MS) within Cadence  environment.

You will study all mandatory setup to use Artist Link with Eldo, AVance MS, Eldo RF simulators and EZwave viewer. You will be shown the advantages of the statistical analyses integration. The use of behavioral models (VHDL, Verilog, VHDL-AMS, Verilog-AMS) will be discussed and demonstrated in the ADVance MS chapters.

With this course, you get a synthesis of all required information to optimize the usage of Artist Link. This goes from standard steps and setup to various tricks key for a good mastering of your simulation environment.

You will learn how to

• Install, set up, differentiate Direct and Socket simulation
• Use efficiently EZwave with its waveform calculator
• Set up and run an Eldo simulation, specify Eldo options
• Set up and run a sweep analysis, an optimization, a Monte Carlo or a Corner Case analysis
• Set up and run an Eldo RF simulation, specify various RF analyses
• Perform RF measurements in EZwave
• Compile behavioral models and run an ADMS simulation in standalone mode (outside of Artist Link)
• Use the appropriate methodology to create simulation views for behavioral models (create an ADMS library in Artist Link or import an existing one)
• Manage  interface elements
• Make effective usage of the tool with key tips and tricks that are also available in the SupportNet Knowledge Base

Hands-On Labs

Throughout this course, extensive hands-on lab exercises provide you with practical experience using Eldo, Sweep Analysis, Optimizer, Monte Carlo analysis, ADVance MS simulation and Eldo RF simulation

Audience

This course is intended for analog, digital, and mixed-signal designers who want to be able to master the usage of Eldo and ADVance MS simulators inside Cadence front-end environment.

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with Unix operating systems
• Familiarity with Cadence environment
• Practical experience with analog design and simulation
• Knowledge of principals of SPICE