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SimControl is the industry's only open architecture custom design analysis environment. By maximizing freedom of choice, SimControl enables automation of custom circuit design analysis the way you want via open, user-friendly technology.

Benefits:

	Automate circuit test benches and regression suites
	Reduce design closure to specification time
	Standardize the circuit design process
	Maximize design yield with repeatability

Design Yield vs. Closure Time

Circuit designers must simulate their designs across a broad range of circuit environments to ensure high silicon yield. Often tradeoffs must be made between rigorous verification and schedule – leading to ad-hoc test benches or incomplete corner sets. SimControl eliminates these limitations by fully automating and parallelizing the corner setup and simulation process, measurement data collection and results visualization. Thousands of corners can be setup and managed in parallel using SimControl with results only limited by compute power. This turnkey scalability enables designers to reduce design cycle time while improving design yield.

Standardize Design Process

SimControl allows simple and efficient simulation setup and management. Since corners, sweeps, measures and data post-processing are all centrally managed, circuit analyses can be setup quickly and results can be monitored with fast feedback. More importantly, SimControl provides a platform with which to standardize simulation setup, verification, measurement and general design methodology. Standardization provides three key benefits:

	Framework: provides turnkey scalability and eases transfer of simulations from designer to designer (especially to a junior designer)
	Repeatability: reduces human error and thereby increases designer productivity
	Communication: improves communication of results with peers and management

Dashboard Views

The SimControl dashboard views provide real-time information on the completion status of circuit blocks. Dashboards at various levels of hierarchy make it easy to quickly acquire the information needed – allowing progress toward design closure to be tightly tracked. The specsheet view for a circuit gives management valuable insight into the quality and timeliness of the design effort. Specsheet views are easily created via the web interface and are automatically populated with the latest simulation data.