Siemens’ new Solido Simulation Suite enables customers to significantly speed up verification

Siemens Digital Industry Software has launched Solido™ Simulation Suite (Solido Sim), a suite of AI-accelerated SPICE, Fast SPICE and mixed-signal simulators. Designed to help customers accelerate critical design and validation for next-generation analog, mixed-signal, custom IC designs.

Based on the Siemens Analog FastSPICE (AFS) platform, Solido Sim integrates three innovative emulators, including Solido SPICE software, Solido FastSPICE software, Solido LibSPICE software, and SOLIDO Analog Simulator. And Siemens’ market-proven AFS, Eldo and Symphony solutions.

PXle-4143 Amit Gupta, Vice President of Digital Industrial Software and General Manager of Custom IC Verification at Siemens, said: “The introduction of the Solido Simulation Suite is another major step forward for Siemens in custom IC simulation technology, with SPICE and FastSPICE engines powered by AI technology that deliver superior precision and efficiency to chip design and validation engineers. Solido Sim’s initial customers have now achieved success across multiple process technology platforms, reducing execution time and implementing compelling new capabilities for their next-generation analog, RF, mixed-signal and library IP designs.”

Solido Sim is designed to help IC design teams meet increasingly stringent specifications, validation coverage metrics, and time-to-market requirements. It features advanced circuitry and SoC validation capabilities to provide complete application coverage. Solido Sim is based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology and was developed with next generation process technologies and complex IC structures in mind, providing design teams with the necessary toolset and capabilities to achieve accurate signal and power integrity goals.

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Solido Sim provides a simplified usage model, faster validation, and a unified workflow. It offers a range of innovative simulation technologies, including:
Solido SPICE is the next generation of SPICE simulation technology from Siemens with rich capabilities that accelerate analog, mixed-signal, RF and 3D IC verification by 2-30 times. Solido SPICE provides updated convergent, cache-efficient algorithms with multi-core scalability that deliver significant performance gains for large-scale pre – and post-wiring designs. RF IC developers can benefit from Solido SPICE’s new RF validation capabilities, while developers of multi-chip, 2.5D, 3D, and memory interfaces can now perform efficient channel transceiver validation, including equalization, significantly reducing interface assumptions and speeding up validation.
PXle-4143 Solido FastSPICE is Siemens’ fast SPICE simulation technology that delivers significant speed gains for SoC, memory and simulation function verification. It provides dynamic use models for scaling from SPICE to fast SPICE, quickly achieving predictable accuracy through an extensible interface. Solido FastSPICE includes multi-resolution technology that provides differentiated performance and SPICE precision waveforms during critical path analysis for memory and analog feature extraction.
Solido LibSPICE is Siemens’ batch resolution technology for small designs that provides optimized uptime for library IP applications. Solido LibSPICE is uniquely integrated into Siemens’ Solido Design Environment and Solido Feature Extraction Suite products to enhance simulation performance and provide a full-process solution for seamless and stable verification of standard and memory bit cells.

The above three parsers all use Solido Sim AI simulation technology. Solido Design Automation has been using AI technology in EDA for more than 15 years, and Solido Sim AI is an iterative version of this technology that takes circuit simulation to the next level. It uses algorithms that can self-verify and adjust to SPICE accuracy, resulting in exponential speed improvements. All of this is achieved using fab-certified device models with no additional modifications required.

With native integration in Siemens’ Solido™ Design Environment and Solido™ Feature extraction suite, Solido Sim provides customers with superior performance and accuracy, improved productivity, and scalability across cloud infrastructures. In addition, Solido Simulation Suite works closely with Siemens’ Calibre Design solutions and Tessent™ Test solutions, as well as Siemens’ electronic systems design and Manufacturing PBC solutions to provide a full process verification solution across applications.