Xpedion Introduces GoldenGate 3.1 With 10X Overall Simulation Speedup and Enhancements for Cadence Flows.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002 Xpedion Design Systems, Inc. today introduced GoldenGate 3.1, the latest version of its advanced wireless and RF simulator with a 10-times overall performance improvement versus the previous version and significant enhancements for users of Cadence design flows. The new features and capabilities in GoldenGate 3.1 make it the most robust and high performance simulation tool available for wireless and RF simulation. Faster simulation translates into shorter design and verification cycles to help engineers meet the time-to-market requirements of their complex mixed-signal chips. "Simulation speed is critical for completing mixed-signal designs on-time with the requisite accuracy and performance," said Roger Bitter, vice president of sales and marketing at Xpedion. "With this new version of GoldenGate, we have accelerated simulation run time across the board. Many of our customers are using our software integrated with the Cadence-based design environment and they will appreciate GoldenGate's new capabilities in their tool flows." Simulation Performance Enhancements Xpedion has added an innovative new fast envelope transient analysis feature to GoldenGate for designers who are running complex modulated signals like QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) A phase modulation technique that transmits two bits in four modulation states. See PSK and phase modulation. , CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. , OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) A digital transmission technique that uses a large number of carriers spaced apart at slightly different frequencies. , or CWDM (Course WDM) An optical transmission method that is used for shorter distances than dense WDM (DWDM). Also known as "wide WDM," CWDM transmits fewer channels and uses wider spacing between the channels for distances up to 60 km. Wider spacing up to 25 nm, compared to 1. through mixers or amplifiers. These complex waveforms require a simulation tool to deal with the difficult analysis problem of low frequency transient signals in the presence of a high frequency carrier. They routinely fail to converge or take days to find a solution using conventional simulators. By comparison, Xpedion's fast envelope transient analysis converges and delivers Noise Power Ratio (NPR NPR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Nepal Rupee. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) and Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR ACPR Adjacent Channel Power Ratio ACPR Ariel Center for Policy Research (Israel) ACPR Adjacent-Channel Power Rejection ACPR Adjacent Channel Protection Ratio ACPR American Crossbred Pony Registry ACPR Advanced Core Performance Reactor ) results in just minutes. Fast envelope transient analysis can also be used to determine the behavior of an oscillator oscillator Mechanical or electronic device that produces a back-and-forth periodic motion. A pendulum is a simple mechanical oscillator that swings with a constant amplitude, requiring the addition of energy at each swing only to compensate for the energy lost because of air during the critical start up phase, prior to reaching steady state operation. Xpedion's advanced fast envelope transient simulation uses proprietary techniques to speed simulations by a factor of 100 to 1000 versus traditional envelope transient techniques. Engineers can utilize this capability to test circuit topologies during the initial stage of design. They can analyze problems and run "what if?" scenarios. Designers will no longer have to wait until tapeout to verify compliance with goals for gain, bandwidth or adjacent channel interference. This improved flow produces higher quality circuits that are more likely to meet specifications. New algorithms and data structures enable GoldenGate 3.1 users to see up to 10-times performance improvement during netlisting, parsing, and expanding of schematics for mid-to-large complexity RF designs. For users running linear analyses like AC Gain, Reflection Coefficient, Linear Noise Factor, and Impedance Matching, GoldenGate 3.1 provides a 35-times performance increase over version 3.0 due to improvements in the simulator kernel and S-parameter analysis methodologies. GoldenGate 3.1 also allows faster iterative circuit changes for designers who are making incremental design changes to optimize for a particular specification. GoldenGate 3.1 accelerates simulation of multiple circuit conditions such as Monte Carlo analysis or corners by allowing previously calculated steady state conditions of the circuit to be used as a starting point. Cadence Compatibility Enhancements Xpedion has added a number of new features and enhancements to improve the usability of GoldenGate 3.1 in the Cadence tool flow and environment. GoldenGate 3.1 now supports "Ocean" scripting or batch processing for designers who need to start and run a series of unattended analyses on a single workstation without additional user intervention. Users can now fully utilize the Ocean scripting language for multiple test runs within GoldenGate and take advantage of the productivity gains possible when repetitive or time consuming simulations must be run for documentation or optimization purposes. GoldenGate 3.1 now includes a Noise Contribution Table for designers who need to troubleshoot a noisy circuit to identify individual elements that are causing the majority of the problems. In addition, GoldenGate 3.1 supports: -- Use of Cadence Psin sources -- A sweep variable with full corners support for Temperature and Process. Pricing and Availability GoldenGate 3.1 is available immediately for both workstation and PC platforms. Pricing starts at $150,000.00 US list for a 3-year time-based license. About Xpedion Xpedion began operations in 1998 and is focused on delivering a new breed of EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. solutions for use in designing wireless and high-speed digital circuits and systems. The company's tools enable design teams to rapidly develop products for the evolving 3G, Wireless LAN, and Bluetooth communication standards as well as high speed digital circuits (e.g. OC 768) and Phase Locked Loops. Xpedion is a member of the Cadence (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ) Connections Program, the Synopsys (Nasdaq:SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System ) in-Sync(TM) Program, the Innoveda (Nasdaq:INOV) VIA Partners Program, and is both a Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) and a Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) development partner. Xpedion Design Systems, Inc. is located at 4677 Old Ironsides Drive, Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. , USA, 95054, telephone: 408/987-0603, FAX: 408/987-0615, info@xpedion.com, www.xpedion.com. GoldenGate/Sim and GoldenGate/NN-Model Compiler are trademarks of Xpedion. All others are properties of their owners. |
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