IC Design

Designing Innovation in
Full-Flow IC Design and Verification

Cadence’s IC design tools deliver a unified flow for analog, digital, and mixed-signal development, enabling faster, more efficient design, verification, and signoff. With advanced automation, scalable performance, and support for the latest process technologies, these tools help teams optimize power, performance, and area while accelerating time-to-silicon.

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Analog IC Design

Cadence offers a robust suite of tools for Analog IC Design, empowering engineers with precision, productivity, and performance at every stage of development.

With advanced simulation, layout automation, and tightly integrated verification, engineers can confidently manage design complexity, reduce iterations, and achieve first-pass silicon success even at advanced nodes.

Highlights:

Proven partner for every new process node, down to 2nm.
Trusted, cutting-edge solutions that keep analog designers ahead of the curve.

Cadence continues to be the preferred choice for teams seeking innovation, reliability, and excellence in Analog IC Design.

Analog Design Flow

Digital IC Design

Cadence empowers digital IC Development with a fast, intelligent, and highly scalable full-flow solution. From architecture exploration to implementation and signoff, the Cadence flow is built to handle today's design complexity with precision and efficiency.

With advanced optimization engines and AI-driven technologies, designers can:

Confidently meet aggressive power, performance, and area (PPA) targets.
Reduce turnaround time and design iterations.
Bring differentiated silicon to market faster.

Cadence's digital design solutions give teams the speed, scalability, and intelligence needed to succeed in an increasingly competitive silicon landscape.

Digital Design Flow

Mixed-Signal IC Design

As Analog and Digital designs become increasingly intertwined, Cadence delivers a truly integrated mixed-signal design and verification flow that unifies both worlds.

Moving beyond the traditional "black box" approach, Cadence enables top-level co-design and co-simulation through unified tools that:

Enhance communication across teams.
Reduce design iterations.
Streamline engineering change orders (ECOs)

Whether your design is analog-centric, digital-centric, or deeply integrated, Cadence's methodology promotes collaboration and concurrency, boosting productivity and ensuring reliable results across today's complex mixed-signal systems.

Design Flow

Integrated IC Design Methodology

At IPACK Solutions, we help engineering teams deploy Cadence IC design flows as structured, end-to-end methodologies — not isolated tools.

From architecture definition to final signoff, Cadence enables a tightly connected environment where schematic capture, simulation, implementation, and verification operate within a unified ecosystem. This integration reduces data translation errors, shortens iteration cycles, and improves first-pass silicon success.

We support customers in:

Selecting the right flow based on process node and design complexity,
Configuring tool environments and PDK integrations,
Establishing best-practice verification strategies,
Optimizing performance, power, and area (PPA) targets,
Enabling scalable collaboration across analog, digital, and mixed-signal teams.

Virtuoso Schematic Editor

Captures the transistor-level circuit design using an intuitive schematic entry interface.

Virtuoso ADE Explorer/Assembler

Provides a simulation environment for design verification, analysis, and optimization.

Spectre

Performs accurate SPICE-based simulations for analog and mixed-signal circuits.

Virtuoso Layout Suite

Enables custom layout creation with support for advanced node design rules and automation.

Pegasus

Executes fast and scalable physical verification including DRC and LVS checks.

Quantus QRC EMX

Extracts parasitic elements and models electromagnetic effects for post-layout analysis.

Genus

Performs RTL-to-gate-level synthesis with optimization for power, performance, and area.

Modus

Inserts and validates design-for-test structures to enable manufacturing testability.

Conformal

Verifies functional equivalence between RTL and gate-level or post-synthesis designs.

Innovus

Handles physical implementation including floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, and routing.

Tempus

Performs static timing analysis for signoff, ensuring timing closure under all conditions.

Quantus

Extracts accurate parasitic capacitance and resistance for post-layout analysis and signoff.

Voltus

Conducts electromigration and IR-drop analysis to ensure power integrity at signoff.

Pegasus

Executes signoff-quality physical verification including DRC, LVS, and metal fill insertion.

IC Design

Designing Innovation in Full-Flow IC Design and Verification

Design Solutions

Design Flow

Integrated IC Design Methodology

Virtuoso Schematic Editor

Virtuoso ADE Explorer/Assembler

Spectre

Virtuoso Layout Suite

Pegasus

Quantus QRC EMX

Designing Innovation in
Full-Flow IC Design and Verification