QuickChat: Trends in Passive Component Synthesis and EM Modeling for Advanced Node IC Designs

Nikolas Provatas, product management group director at Cadence, discusses the latest updates of the EMX Planar 3D Solver technology, as well as how it enables circuit engineers to de-risk their designs from parasitic coupling. He also introduces EMX Designer, Cadence’s latest product offering targeting passive component synthesis and optimization. He talks in brief about how customers can boost productivity by creating, in split seconds, DRC-clean PCells of passive devices and how they can optimize them to save silicon area.