Eldo
Integrated Circuit Simulation
Eldo™ offers numerous simulation and modeling options that deliver high-performance and high-speed simulation with superior accuracy.
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Get all the capability and accuracy of SPICE-level simulation from a native analog simulation engine yielding the highest performance for the verification of the most complex analog IPs or SoCs. Eldo includes the most advanced simulation technology and provides extensive simulation capabilities. Its advanced analysis features include transient noise, DC mismatch, sensitivity, aging analysis, library encryption and licensing capabilities, optimization, distributed computing, multi-threading, RC reduction, pole-zero, enhanced Monte-Carlo analysis, S-parameters, S-domain and Z-domain generalized transfer functions.
Eldo's extensive device model libraries include all the latest transistor models such as BSIM, PSP or HiSIM. It is the simulator of choice for CPU-intensive applications such as digital cell characterization. Eldo's capabilities can be further extended with VerilogA analog behavioral modeling, advanced RF analysis with Eldo RF, or mixed signal with Questa ADMS RF. Eldo and its options are completely integrated into the Analog Design Environment from Cadence and in Mentor Graphics ICFlow.
Features and Benefits
Key Product Benefits
- 3X to 10X gain in simulation speed over other commercial SPICE simulators
- Foundation for top-down methodology with Analog & Mixed-Signal HDL languages and RFIC simulation
- Eldo models available for DSM foundry processes (TSMC, UMC, Chartered, ST, AMS, etc.)
Speed
When compared to other commercial or internal SPICE simulators, Eldo users routinely report a 3X to 10X speed-up ratio without compromising accuracy, when compared to silicon.
Accuracy
For 25 years, Eldo has been used to verify and successfully fabricate thousands of ICs, from the most modest ones to huge mixed-signal SoCs, in all domains of applications, from defense to communications to automotive, and on all continents. For designers, Eldo is the absolute, golden, sign-off reference.
Capacity
Designers worldwide use Eldo on designs ranging from a single cell to systems of 300,000 transistors or more. Compared to most SPICE tools, Eldo exhibits a much more linear growth of CPU time with the size of the circuit. The raw maximum capacity of Eldo is limited only by the amount of available RAM.
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- Eldo RF Eldo RF : Transistor-level simulator for RF IC designs.
- Questa ADMS RF Integrated RF and Mixed Signal Simulation for Complete Verification of RF-DSP Systems.
Datasheet
- Eldo RF (PDF, 2mb)
Technical Resources
- WHITE PAPER: Electro-Migration Check with Eldo
- software eval: Eldo Evaluation Request
- WHITE PAPER: An Optimizer-Assisted Design Methodology For A Two Stage Wideband Feedback Amplifier
- WHITE PAPER: Understanding the Low Power Abstraction
Contact Mentor Graphics
- Eldo Info Request or call toll free: 1-800-547-3000