DATASHEET

MunEDA WiCkeDTM Interface to:

Agilent GoldenGate RFIC Simulation Software
MunEDATM and Agilent EEsof EDA have
integrated their products, MunEDA
WiCkeDTM for circuit porting, analysis
and
optimization
and
Agilent
GoldenGate RFIC Simulation Software
to enhance and speed-up the analysis,
modelling and optimization of RF
circuits.

WiCkeD - improve circuit design

performance and yield

Agilent EEsof EDA Design &

Simulation Software

WiCkeD offers several tools for enhanced

circuit & IP porting, analysis, modelling,
optimization, and verification.

Agilent EEsof EDA is the leading supplier

of Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
software for high-frequency and highspeed system, modeling, and RF circuit
design applications.

Agilent GoldenGate RFIC

Simulation and Analysis Software

The combination of the GoldenGate RFIC

Simulation and Analysis Software and
WiCkeDTM
analysis
and
sizing
environment for Custom IC circuits
especially in RF is customer proven.

GoldenGate RFIC Simulation and Analysis

Software is the most trusted simulation,
verification and analysis solution available
for integrated RF circuit design. Its unique
simulation algorithms enable full
characterization of complete transceivers
prior to tape-out. Frequency- and timedomain techniques are used to accurately
verify the most complex RFIC - Wireless
design performance.

TM

MunEDA WiCkeD Tool Suite for

Circuit Design & Sizing
WiCkeDTM is a comprehensive and
powerful software tool suite from MunEDA
for the sizing including analysis, modelling,
optimization and verification of analog
/mixed-signal circuit designs and IP
libraries.

WiCkeDTM supports the circuit designer

with interactive manual, semi- and fullautomatic tools to improve and optimize
integrated
circuits
for
functionality,
performance, robustness, and yield.

Agilent GoldenGate RFIC

Simulation and Analysis Software

To ensure device manufacturability and

reduce design spins, GoldenGate
automates the simulation, control and
analysis of complex verification schemes.
GoldenGate RFIC Simulation and Analysis
Software is fully integrated into the
Cadence Analog Design Environment.

Features
WiCkeDTM includes tools and
methodologies for
Schematic Porting
Nominal Circuit Analysis
Nominal Circuit Optimization & Circuit
Sizing
Statistical Circuit Analysis (Variation
Aware Circuit Design)
Statistical Circuit Robustness and Yield
Optimization
IP Porting Solutions
Circuit Modelling & Model Generation
These tools enable customers to reduce
the design times of their analog/mixedsignal circuits and IP libraries and to
maximize robustness, reliability, and yield.

MunEDA WiCkeD Tools Overview

Starting with a basic design history

WiCkeD delivers a powerful compilation of
basic features that enables the circuit
designer to do enhanced topology
analysis,
constraint
setup
and
management. Furthermore, it includes
different analyses for circuit performance,
parameter sensitivity and correlation within
a well-documented project. WiCkeD can
be operated either through a graphical
interface or a user-programmable scripting
interface (batch mode).

Key Benefits of GoldenGate

Best performance, capacity and
accuracy to complete your RFIC
designs on time with the highest level
of designer productivity
Takes advantage of both frequencydomain and time-domain simulation
capabilities to perform necessary
analyses on today's RF devices

DATASHEET MunEDA WiCkeDTM Interface to Agilent GoldenGate RFIC Simulation and Analysis Software 2011 MunEDA GmbH & MunEDA Inc. all rights reserved.
WiCkeDTM is a trademark of MunEDA GmbH. Agilent Technologies and GoldenGate are (registered) trademarks of Agilent Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are
property of their respective owners. For more information see www.muneda.com and www.agilent.com 2011May19

 Uniquely verifies 3G and 4G RF

performance using standards-based
system level test benches

LO-Path Current versus Noise

Optimization
Optimization of GSM & UMTS blocks in
extracted schematic view
For more information see user
testimonials and presentations at the
MunEDA User Group Meeting (MUGM)
http://www.muneda.com/User-GroupMeetings or www.agilent.com/find/eesofgoldengate.

WiCkeD & GoldenGate Design

Flow Integration
MunEDA WiCkeD and Agilent GoldenGate
are integrated in the Cadence EDA
design environment.

CUSTOMER BENEFITS
Typical Application Areas for
WiCkeD with GoldenGate
RF blocks in wireless communication
circuits
Process migration
Optimization for noise, gain, power
efficiency and area
Reduction of sensitivities to operating
conditions and process variations
Joint Application & Customer
Success Stories GoldenGate &
WiCkeD

Low noise amplifiers (LNA)

Mixers
Oscillators
PLLs
Voltage-controlled oscillators (VCO)
RF transmitter
RF receiver
RF transceiver
And other RF circuitry

APPLICATIONS
RF IC sizing - performance & yield
analysis, modelling, and optimization
RF IP porting & reuse
RF IP & technology migration
Fab migration & consolidation
Supports transistor-level and systemlevel circuit design

CUSTOMER REFERENCE CASES

Circuit design optimization cases for
wireless cellular communication
Design and characterization of a dither
VCO for mixed signal application at
different levels of abstraction
Analysis and optimization of a CMOS
mixer circuit

Integrated simulation and sizing

environment for high-sensitive, highperformance and high-frequency RF
circuits
Circuit reliability and performance
increased by 5x-10x
Reduce design time & effort and
improve design quality significantly
Detect design failures before tape-out
and going to fab
Avoid expensive re-spins & re-designs,
reduce fab-runs

SUPPORT & SERVICES

For support of mentioned Agilent
Technologies EDA products please
contact www.agilent.com.

Achieve high design yield/robustness

and profits

Interoperability of MunEDA
WiCkeD and Agilent GoldenGate
RFIC Simulation and Analysis
Software
Juergen
Hartung,
RFIC
Product
Marketing & Foundry Program Manager,
Agilent EEsof EDA: MunEDAs high-end
EDA tools for analysis, modelling, porting
and sizing perfectly complement our
GoldenGate trusted simulation, verification
and analysis solution for integrated RF
designs. Our joint solution will enable our
customers to confidently develop leadingedge RF products at advanced nodes.

MunEDA
Get support directly from MunEDA GmbH
& MunEDA Inc. or from MunEDA certified
worldwide distribution & support partners.
For contact directions please select
www.muneda.com and info@muneda.com.

Michael Pronath, Vice President of

products & solutions at MunEDA: "We
are proud to cooperate with Agilent EEsof
EDA, the global leader in RF and HighFrequency EDA simulation tools. Beside
GoldenGates proven performance to
handle complex RF circuit simulations, our
customer will also resonate with its
parallel simulation license to make
massive verification runs affordable.

WiCkeD Platform Support &

Features
Linux, SUN Solaris
Documented API (Tcl/Tk, Phyton)
Export/Import Interfaces (Matlab, R,
SPlus, VerilogA, VHDL-AMS)

DATASHEET MunEDA WiCkeDTM Interface to Agilent GoldenGate RFIC Simulation and Analysis Software 2011 MunEDA GmbH & MunEDA Inc. all rights reserved.
WiCkeDTM is a trademark of MunEDA GmbH. Agilent Technologies and GoldenGate are (registered) trademarks of Agilent Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are property of
their respective owners. For more information see www.muneda.com and www.agilent.com 2011May19