Titan Mixed-Signal Design Platform

The Titan platform delivers first-time-right, predictable mixed-signal designs without sacrificing performance, while shortening the design process by weeks. Titan is the industry’s first platform to truly integrate analog, digital implementation and verification. With automated mixed-signal assembly and verification, Titan provides an order-of-magnitude productivity improvement over analog flows. Additionally, it provides seamless integration to the Titan ADX analog design accelerator to speed implementation.

Titan is a unified mixed-signal design cockpit with very high capacity and a very fast database access mechanism. By fully embedding Talus, Titan combines the high-level efficiency of Magma’s digital implementation tools with full-custom analog design tools. Titan comprises user-friendly full-custom schematic and layout editors, an analog simulation environment, correct-by-design schematic-driven layout (SDL) and integration with Magma tools for simulation and physical verification.

• Provides a complete mixed-signal design cockpit that allows the user to design from specification to GDSII in a single environment.
• Includes contemporary tool features of schematic and layout editors, an analog simulation environment and schematic-driven layout.
• Features new functionality for design acceleration that allows the user to port the design from one specification to another or from one node to another within in a fraction of time required by other tools.
• State-of-the-art constraint-driven router speeds routing of big mixed-signal designs.
• Single cockpit with tight integration with Magma’s Talus® digital implementation, FineSim™ circuit simulation and Quartz™ DRC and Quartz LVS physical verification tools eases adoption.
• Provides high speed and capacity.
• Open architecture and compliance with industry standards enable Titan to read and write OpenAccess-compatible files and to support the TSMC Interoperable Process Design Kit (iPDK) and other industry formats.
• Migration and support of legacy customer data enables design reuse.

Titan SDL updates the layout quickly, allowing designers to make frequent changes to the schematic. It also provides a full-featured device generator and support for parameterized cells, enabling designers to quickly generate a full device-level layout.

Titan layout editor (LE) combines the fastest access and edit times in the industry with the ability to view and modify the digital placed-and-routed data. Coupled with a fast shape-based analog-aware router, Titan LE gives designers a range of options from full-custom to full-automation to meet specific circuit requirements.

Titan provides an integrated chip-finishing solution for mixed-signal designs, as well. The unprecedented level of integration and automation provided by Titan enables a significant increase in productivity by eliminating the potentially time-consuming and difficult iterations between traditional custom layout and standard-cell implementation systems. To further streamline the design process, Titan supports OpenAccess and emerging industry standards.

Key Benefits
• Support for TSMC iPDK
• Tcl scripting interface
• Custom menus and user interface creation
• Tight integration with other Magma tools
• Eases migration of legacy data to new processes

Titan Schematic Editor (SE)

• Comprehensive, powerful, easy-to-use feature set driven by menus and hotkeys
• Auto-wiring capability
• Top-down design capability
• Advanced search and replace
• Full support for buses and bundles
• Support for multi-sheet schematics
• Inherited connections
• Easy hierarchy traversal
• Custom netlist generation
• Support for various formats, including HDL and Verilog
• On-canvas editing

Titan Analog Simulation Environment (ASE)

• Complete SPICE simulation environment for analog circuits
• Interactive GUI and comprehensive scripting support
• Supports simulation job distribution (LSF, SGE)
• Easy simulator-independent test-bench creation
• Specification-driven environment with complete characterization setup
• Integrated with Titan SE for design analysis and debug such as DC operating point, back annotation and probing
• Intuitive post-processing capability
• Advance capabilities include corner simulation, parametric sweep and Monte Carlo simulation to characterize the design
• Test reusability including DUT-based test bench mapping

Titan Schematic-Driven Layout (SDL)

• Full connectivity-aware layout creation using any language pCells including those from IPL or iPDK
• Ability to control the layout hierarchy creation
• Bi-directional cross-probing between layout and schematic
• Check and update of layout with regard to schematic
• Support for pattern-based device module creation
• Ability to view opens and shorts
• Flyline control options

Titan Layout Editor (LE)

• Comprehensive, powerful, easy-to-use feature set driven by menus and hotkeys
• High capacity and speed
• Full custom creation and editing options for shapes
• Controls for viewing and selecting objects and layers
• Editing in place and hierarchy traversal options
• Net finding and tracing capabilities
• Advanced search and replace
• Grouped path and guard ring creation
• Advanced object alignment features
• Wiring and bus wiring capabilities
• Live DRC

Titan Shape-Based Router (SBR)

• Automated, constraint-driven analog and mixed-signal routing
• Interfaces to third-party tools through OA, GDSII, LEF/DEF and Verilog
• Constraint creation and editing by GUI and Magma Tcl
• Custom shielding including parallel, tandem and coaxial shields
• Differential pair, star and matched length/resistance routing
• Bus and river routing
• Power routing

Support for Legacy Data and Formats

• Fully open architecture
• Support for read and write of OpenAccess database
• Support for industry-standard formats including GDSII, LEF/DEF, SPICE and Verilog
• Migrates legacy data
• Support for any language pCells and Python pyCells
• Support for the TSMC iPDK libraries for industry-wide data sharing

Supported Platforms
• Linux 32 and 64 bit