Keysight Technologies, Inc., Synopsys, Inc. and Ansys introduce a new integrated radio frequency (RF) design migration flow from TSMC's N16 process to its N6RF+ technology to address the power, performance, and area (PPA) requirements of today's most demanding wireless integrated circuit applications. The new migration workflow integrates millimeter wave (mmWave) and RF solutions from Keysight, Synopsys, and Ansys into an efficient design flow that streamlines re-design of passive devices and design components to TSMC's more advanced RF process. This RF design migration initiative extends TSMC's Analog Design Migration (ADM) methodology with additional capabilities for RF circuit designers.

Beyond the productivity gains offered by ADM, the Keysight, SynopsYS, and Ansys migration workflow demonstrates significant power reduction for a 2.4GHz low noise amplifier (LNA) design re-targeted to the N6RF+ process. Key components of the design migration flow include: The Synopsys Custom Design Family, featuring Synopsys Custom Compiler?? layout environment with Synopsys ASO.ai??

for rapid analog and RF design migration and Synopsys PrimeSim?? circuit simulator; Keysight RFPro for device parameterization, automated value fitting, and electromagnetic (EM) simulation; Ansys RaptorH?? for on-silicon electromigration analysis and VeloceRF??

for passive component synthesis. RF circuit designers can adopt the migration flow to rapidly re-design their devices to the N6RF+ processes specifications and accelerate time-to-market. RF circuit designers want to leverage and reuse their libraries of N16 device and component intellectual property to improve ROI.

This new flow facilitates fast re-design in the latest TSMC N6RF+ technology for existing components originally built in N16. Keysight RFPro enables circuit designers to easily perform the device parameterization, new simulation model generation, and interactive EM analysis inside the Synopsys Custom Compiler layout environment. No time-consuming data handoffs or domain specialization are required, which increases overall engineering productivity for RF circuit designers.