Digital Design and Signoff

Digital Design and Signoff is a group of Cadence products for designing integrated circuits. Rather than marketing tools, it covers the engineering steps from synthesis through to final verification of a chip.

Main features

• Synthesis and implementation: products such as Genus Synthesis and the Innovus Implementation System, with floorplanning for system-on-chip designs.
• Timing and power signoff: Tempus for timing signoff and Voltus for power integrity.
• Verification: the Pegasus Verification System, logic equivalence checking and low-power validation.
• Closure and 3D: the Certus Closure Solution and the Integrity 3D-IC Platform.
• Machine-assisted exploration: the Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer.

Key facts

• Vendor: Cadence.
• Related areas: custom and analogue design, verification, IP, package design and PCB analysis.
• Other categories: library characterisation, test, power analysis and constraints and clock-domain-crossing signoff.