Tools of the Trade
Black Forest Engineering takes great care in choosing the tools that aid design and verification. These tools must stay current with advances in modeling and manufacturing as well as support the packages provided by the foundries. As our customers’ needs and the requirements of our industry evolve, we continually evaluate all that is critical for us to ensure function, performance, viability and yield for each design we create.
Design and Simulation
- Cadence Virtuoso & Silicon Canvas’ LakerAMS for schematic capture
- Cadence Spectre & Silvaco’s SmartSpice for analog simulation
- Mentor Graphics‘ ADMS & Silvaco’s Harmony for mixed signal simulation
- Cadence Xcelium & Mentor Graphics‘ ModelSIM for HDL and digital simulation
Layout & Physical Verification
- Cadence Virtuoso & IC-Editor for Layout
- Mentor Graphics’ Calibre for DRC/LVS/XRC
- Silvaco’s Clever for 3D physical device modeling and field solving