Cadence offers new RF design kit

BANGALORE: Cadence Design Systems has announced the global launch of its Cadence RF (Radio Frequency) Design methodology kit, targeted to address key challenges in wireless design.

The design kit enables wireless chip designers achieve shorter, more predictable design cycles by better ensuring that silicon performance matches design intent.

Addressing a press conference, Kelly Perey, vice president, vertical marketing, Cadence, said, " The RF design methodology kit leverages the latest technologies from Cadence for intelligently managing parasitic extraction and linking system-level designs that span digital, analog and RF."

The kit includes an 802.11 b/g WLAN transceiver reference design, a full suite of RF verification IP, test plans, and applicability training on the RF design and analysis methodologies. The kit focuses on front-to-back RF IC design and addresses behavioral modeling, circuit simulation and inductor syntheses. It also focuses on IC verification within a system context, leveraging system level models and test benches for use by designers in the IC environment.

"We are very aggressively looking into the $43.8 billion wireless IC consumption market worldwide and plan to tap both the wired and wireless networking market. We are also planning to focus on the consumer market in the personal entertainment segment," she said.

The announcement of the RF design methodology kit follows on the heels of the Cadence AMS methodology kit and Cadence Optimization kit for ARM processors, which the company announced at the last CDNLive 2005.

"Our customers continue to meet the market demands for ICs with wireless functionality, integrating voice and data capability with less power at a lower cost and within a shorter timeframe." said Ajay Malhotra, senior vice president of marketing, Cadence.

The customers can expect more such Cadence kits in the near future in areas of networking and consumer electronics like digital television.