Design Workshop

EDA Solution

dw-2000 is Design Workshop Technologies’ flagship suite of products, used by customers worldwide to deliver winning designs for over fourteen years. dw-2000™ addresses the design requirements of physical layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Although available as separate modules, dw-2000 is an integrated environment consisting of:

Full-featured Layout Editor
Layout Editor, which is the core dw-2000 module, is used for creating layouts aimed at mask manufacturing. It is a powerful tool that includes all the functionality required for custom layout, at an affordable price.

Comprehensive Design Rule Checker
dw-2000™ XDRC provides designers of analog and mixed-signal ICs with a physical verification tool that is ideal for verifying design rules imposed by the most advanced technologies. Its features, performance and accuracy are unparalleled on low cost platforms. Its ability to handle all angle geometries makes it even more flexible and capable of locating errors other software won’t.

Reliable LVS
dw-2000™ HLVS provides designers with an efficient tool for detecting network mismatches occurring in the physical layout. It consists of an HLE component that outputs a netlist based on extracted hierarchical and generic devices, including their parameters and parasitics, and of an LVS component that compares two SPICE netlists.

Data Conversion Module
Fast and easy data conversion is a necessity with any CAD system that must interface with other processes at different stages of the engineering and design spectrum. dw-2000™ provides conversion compatible with other formats in its Data Conversion Module.

All these modules share a common powerful Programming Environment allowing almost unlimited extendibility.

Parameter cells (p-cells)
Provide the ability to automatically generate device layouts based on user-defined parameters. The GPE scripting language is easy to use, which allows designers to quickly define their own user specific p-cells.

Photonic Design Automation
Photonic Design Automation enables the physical layout and verification of optical components built using planar waveguide technology and other semiconductor manufacturing techniques.

Photonics Element Library
The Photonics ELement Library is specifically designed to provide the photonic industry with a complete backend solution for designing photonic devices. The library utilizes the unique features of dw-2000™, such as all-angle, GDSII native, hierarchical database, and includes a library of parametric optical elements. The waveguide elements make it possible for designers to quickly go from simulation to ready-to-manufacture layouts.

Waveguide Elements
The different waveguide elements are actual parametric cells that have been implemented by our engineers that conform to both the photonic standards and manufacturers’ requirements. To use these elements, designers simply need to select the appropriate element, assign its parameter values and place it in the layout. This could also be done automatically using a GPE script. Once a waveguide element is placed, users can view or modify the ready-to-manufacture layout. If the designer needs to have a closer view of what the manufacturer sees, the layout can be converted to a machine specific format (i.e., MEBES, JEOL).