EDA Trio Synopsys, Ansys and Keysight offer 79 GHz XCVR ref flow on TSMC 16FFC

Three leading design automation software vendors who are experts in three different areas of chip design join hands with the world's number one semiconductor chip foundry TSMC to push the boundaries of RF transceivers built on monolithic silicon. The 79 GHz mm wave transceiver integrated silicon chip or a 3D HI chiplet based device along with necessary sensors, supporting computing fabric with AI accelerators is an artificial brain of self driving vehicles and other such robotic applications. By achieving significant automation in design of such chips fulfilling high level of functional safety is a kind of achieving system-level Moore's law benefits in terms of cost, performance and to some extent in size too. Let's get into the details of this collaboration. Three design software vendors are Synopsys, Ansys and Keysight offering design automation tools for extremely advanced chip design taking care of physics, electrical and mechanical aspects of engineering. These three companies have made available the new 79GHz millimeter wave (mmWave) radio frequency (RF) design reference flow for the TSMC 16nm FinFET Compact Technology (16FFC) enabling implementation of reliable, 79-GHz transceiver integrated circuits. The application suggested in the release includes advanced autonomous systems that require independent operation without human intervention such as automotiv...