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Overview

It's a challenge to manage an RF SoC design with increasing design complexity. Mentor Graphics and UMC work in close cooperation to deliver Technology Design Kits (TDKs) and establish an AMS SoC reference flow. UMC TDK's support Mentor Graphics' front-to-back design flow. A successful VCO was designed with Mentor's simulation and extraction technologies.

To address the increasing design content in multiple application domains, UMC's industrial leading architecture group developed an AMS reference flow based on Mentor's Questa ADMS platform. The reference flow allowed UMC to successfully validate a full chip mixed-signal transceiver reference design in their 130nm mixed-signal process. To fill up the gap of Analog/Mixed-Signal behavioral models, AMS modeling pioneer Dr. Ken Kundert, Designer's Guide Consultant, will present the AMS verification methodology and what they have accomplished with industrial projects.

With the combination of the TDK development and the AMS reference flow, Mentor Graphics and UMC's mutual customers have a proven approach to achieve shorter time-to-market on advanced mixed-signal processes. Using this approach yields much needed efficiencies for the AMS/RF design verification flow.

Topics Covered

• UMC RF design readiness and Full UMC TDK support in Mentor design environment
• Component validation with VCO
• Advanced Verification extended into AMS SOC
  • ADMS's capability of simulating complete UWB transceiver circuit and high level design methodology