Are you excited to know more about the Virtuoso Digital Implementation flow, which is recommended especially for small digital blocks? Are you working on mixed-signal designs? Well, read on to know how to use this flow to implement your digital blocks!
What is Virtuoso Digital Implementation?
Virtuoso Digital Implementation is a license package built for the digital implementation platform. It helps design digital circuits, starting from RTL to the final GDSII output. Virtuoso Digital Implementation is specifically designed to implement digital blocks consisting of up to 50,000 instances and can support a maximum of 100,000 instances by stacking two licenses. The instance limit can be tripled using the VDI-XL Block option. That is not all! Beyond the size, you will want to move to the full-sized digital tool variants and benefit from their superior capacity and multi-threading capabilities. For more information, refer to the following article.
How to invoke VDI and stack licenses to increase the capacity from 50K to 100?
How to Use Virtuoso Digital Implementation?
The RTL-to-GDSII flow is used to design the layout when designs have a mix of analog and digital components (e.g., Analog-On-Top designs), and the digital parts are smaller and must be laid out on top of the analog parts. In such cases, during the synthesis and P&R processes, a Virtuoso Digital Implementation license is used to launch the Genus Synthesis Solution and Innovus Implementation System. With the Virtuoso Digital Implementation license, you get access to both the Genus Synthesis Solution and Innovus Implementation System, with a single instance-limited license that can be run directly from the Virtuoso cockpit.
So, regardless of whether you have a small digital block in a mixed-signal design or are running a small digital block that will be integrated into a larger design, Virtuoso Digital Implementation licenses can be a useful alternative to full-blown Genus and Innovus licenses.
To learn this flow, we are excited to welcome you to our online course, Virtuoso Digital Implementation, released a few weeks ago. It explains how to implement digital blocks using Cadence tools based on the Virtuoso Digital Implementation. Also, you can download a lab database after the lecture and get hands-on experience in each stage.
Want to Enroll in this Course?
We organize this Virtuoso Digital Implementation training for you as a "Blended" or"Live" training. Please reach out to Cadence Training for further information.
Register for the Online Training with the following steps:
- Log on to cadence.com with your registered Cadence ID and password
- Select Learning from the menu > Online Courses
- Search for Virtuoso Digital Implementation using the search bar
- Select the course and click the Enroll
And don't forget to obtain your Digital Badge after completing the training!
Related Rapid Adoption Kit
Virtuoso Digital Implementation (VDI) Discovery Kit 19.1 - Stylus Based RAK
Related Resources
Online Courses
Training Byte Videos
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- How to Run Power Analysis and Analyze the Results in Innovus?