ANSYS Korea (CEO Seok-Hwan Moon), a leading global engineering simulation company, is collaborating with Synopsys to support RFIC design developed for Samsung Electronics Foundry's 14LPU process, contributing to improving the productivity of Samsung Electronics Foundry.

ANSYS, in collaboration with Synopsys, announced the release of a new reference flow for radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design developed with Samsung Electronics Foundry Business for 14LPU process technology.

This reference flow enables customers of both companies to optimize RFIC designs using ANSYS’ golden signoff electromagnetic analysis together with Synopsys’ comprehensive analog/RF and mixed-signal design and verification solution.

Next-generation wireless communications and sensor systems must meet a variety of requirements, including higher bandwidth, lower latency, improved coverage, and support for the proliferation of connected devices. High-frequency designs require highly accurate modeling engines to accurately predict the electromagnetic (EM) coupling between design elements. EM modeling must be tightly coupled with the layout development platform to ensure fast data sharing, easy debugging, high productivity, and clear result visualization.

Key components of the reference flow include the Synopsys Custom Design Family, based on Synopsys PrimeSim™, a continuum of circuit simulation solutions; Ansys® RaptorX™ Electromagnetic Modeling Family; Ansys® Exalto™ Electromagnetic Extraction and Signoff; and electromagnetic signoff analysis solutions provided by Ansys® VeloceRF™ Inductor and Transformer Design Tools.

“High-frequency and wireless applications are expanding from smartphones to 5G/6G, autonomous vehicles, wearables and IoT, to more industrial and consumer applications,” said Sangyoon Kim, senior vice president of DT team at Samsung Electronics’ Foundry Business Unit. “As more of our customers’ engineers are responsible for RF and electromagnetic design, our 14LPU reference flow collaboration with ANSYS and Synopsys provides a seamless, optimal path to complete designs faster and more reliably by taking full advantage of the speed and performance characteristics of our fourth-generation 14nm process technology.”

“Synopsys and Ansys have worked together for many years to leverage their expertise and developments to reduce risk for our mutual customers,” said Shankar Krishnamoorthy, general manager, EDA Group, Synopsys. “We have been working with ANSYS to develop a new RF design reference flow that supports Samsung’s advanced 14nm process node, providing an open, optimized flow that delivers superior result quality for advanced 5G/6G wireless systems.”

“As frequencies increase into the RF range, our customers face new multiphysics challenges that require them to optimize for power, area, reliability and performance,” said John Lee, vice president and general manager, Electronics, Semiconductor & Optics at ANSYS. “Working closely with Synopsys, we are leveraging our industry-leading electromagnetic modeling technology to provide a reference flow tailored to Samsung’s needs that can be easily used in a fully customized design flow.”