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Morgan
Hill, California – June 1, 2005.
OEA International, Inc. announces new update to its popular SPIRAL[TM], a 3D
inductor design toolset for designing and synthesizing on-chip inductors in
analog and RF chips. The new version of SPIRAL adds:
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A set
of RF design engineering tools for doing common calculations in RF passive
circuits. These include basic resistance and inductance series/parallel
calculations and conversions, transmission lines on PCBs, wavelength
calculations, resonance circuits and impedance matching circuit
calculations.
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A new
circuit simulation environment for quickly simulating the newly designed
inductors into user definer RF spice circuits, such as tank circuits. The
circuits are simulated with the fast OEA PANTHER linear spice simulator
and the resultant S, Y, Z-Parameter and LRQ files are displayed on the
PlotView interface.
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New
solving algorithms for faster and more accurate substrate models,
capacitance models, and RL skin effect models.
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While
SPIRAL simulation was already the number one choice for advanced inductor
design, these enhancements demonstrate OEA’s commitment to delivering the
most powerful and fastest design tools for the most difficult and
specialized applications.
SPIRAL
Tool Overview
By
providing a simple set of performance and physical specifications SPIRAL
allows designers to automatically and quickly synthesize, analyze, and
optimize a wide range of inductors, including baluns, differential inductors
and transformers. In a matter of minutes SPIRAL can find and synthesize an
inductor optimally suited to the users' specific circuit requirements.
SPIRAL can be used in a batch mode, in an interactive mode through a robust
graphical users interface, or seamlessly from within the Cadence DFII
environment SPIRAL generates all of the user modeling needs including GDS2
layout: S-Parameters; Y-Parameters; Z-Parameters; plots of inductance,
resistance and quality factor versus frequency; and narrow-band and
wide-band compact spice models. SPIRAL results have proven to be highly
accurate for mainstream and advanced process proven through validation.
Pricing and Availability
Spiral is
available immediately on Linux and Solaris based systems starting at $25,000
for a time-based license.
About
OEA International
OEA
International, Inc. was formed in 1988 to address demanding IC extraction
problems. The company has secured the extraction accuracy leadership role
by working closely with major IC and system companies using the most modern
process technologies available. Through these relationships, the company
has applied it 3D extraction expertise to provide a family of critical net
design tools, signal integrity analysis tools, and RF component design
tools.
RF/analog
designers also have available RF-PASS[TM], a passive component analysis tool
which ensures the most accurate models for on-chip resistors, capacitors,
coil transformers and wind up/down inductors. For additional information
call (408) 778-6747, or visit OEA online at
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