I have been involved in the Virtuoso RF Solution for the last four years. Most of the customers I work with have a SiP package already in progress. They often ask "How do I get my SiP design into Virtuoso RF Solution?" I am excited about new functionality in the latest ICADVM20.1 ISR25 release. It is a new GUI under the Tools menu called Enablement. (read more)

In my last blog, Getting Your Existing SiP File Into Virtuoso RF, I talked about the new enhancements in ICADVM20.1 ISR25 for Virtuoso RF Solution. At the end of the blog, I told you about the Fully Assisted Roundtrip flow, which includes importing SiP files that are compatible with the Virtuoso RF Solution assisted import flow into the Virtuoso platform. Let's examine how the Fully Assisted Roundtrip flow works in this blog.(read more)

We have all heard the sayings “Less is more” and “Keep it simple”. Electromagnetic simulation is an activity where following that advice has enormous payoffs. In this blog I’ll talk about some of my experiences with how Virtuoso RF Solution’s shape simplification feature has helped my customers get significant performance improvements with minimal impacts on accuracy. (read more)