Xcell Semiconductor's "RF EDA/Filter Design Platform" shines at IMS2022

June 20, 2022, Shanghai, China - Coreplus Semiconductor, a leading company in the domestic EDA and IPD industries, released its latest RF EDA/filter design platform at the 2022 IMS International Microwave Week, which received numerous praises from industry experts. IMS2022 was held in Denver, Colorado, USA from June 19 to 24. This is the ninth consecutive year that Coreplus Semiconductor has participated in this RF microwave event.

The RF EDA/filter design platform released by Coreho Semiconductor this time includes two parts: EDA tools and filter design, covering the entire RF design process from RF chips, packaging, modules to board level, and also includes IPD, Hybrid filter technology and EDA tools customized for filter design. Details are as follows:

EDA – RF Chip

IRIS supports on-chip passive modeling and simulation for RFIC designs. With accelerated 3D EM solvers, advanced process support, and seamless integration with Virtuoso, IRIS helps RFIC designers achieve first-time silicon success.

 iModeler has built-in templates for various RF and high-speed passive components. Using a high-precision accelerated EM solver combined with a neural network training algorithm, iModeler can quickly build a parametric model of a PDK layout and equivalent circuit based on a specific process to fully meet your design needs.

 iVerifier provides a comparison report by comparing the EM results of each parameterized model of PDK, the results of the neural network training model, and the SPICE results of the equivalent circuit, allowing you to see the accuracy of various indicators of the model at a glance.

EDA – RF Systems

 XDS provides a full range of RF system solutions, from chips to packaging to PCB. It supports EM extraction of the entire link and cross-scale models, built-in cascade algorithms and spice simulators, field-circuit co-simulation functions, and various high-level analyses, allowing you to directly iterate the design from the system level based on system indicators, thereby controlling the entire design. XDS also has built-in various RF devices and behavioral-level models, including management of third-party device libraries, making you more comfortable in RF system design.

EDA-Filter

 XDS has built-in RF filter solutions, providing customized services for filter design. It provides a complete filter design process from schematic to layout to post-layout co-simulation. It supports multiple filter types, including IPD, SAW and BAW. Built-in fast schematic creation of filter topology, built-in specification library and automatic layout generation, adjustment and optimization make filter design easier.

Filter-IPD Technology

Xinhe Semiconductor provides one-stop IPD solutions for RF front-end modules and system customers in the mobile communications and IoT industries

The IPD design of Xinhe Semiconductor is based on substrates such as HRSi or Glass, and has an IP library that has been rigorously verified by the foundry, including filters, power dividers, couplers, baluns, multiplexers, matching networks, RC networks, high-density silicon capacitors and many other RF passive devices.

With the development of 5G, SiP modularization has become a common choice in the industry. Chips and IPDs are based on wafer technology and have the advantages of small size, low height, low cost, high consistency, high yield, stable performance, customizability and easy integration. They have been widely adopted in frequency bands such as N77 and N79.

Core and Semiconductor's IPD technology is very suitable for the development of high-frequency broadband filters, which is currently difficult to apply to mechanical wave devices such as SAW/BAW. According to application requirements, Core and Semiconductor's customized IPD devices can further improve the overall performance and integration, and rely on mature and reliable semiconductor processing technology to ensure the stable and high-quality delivery of IPD products. Global shipments have exceeded 1 billion.

Filter-Hybrid Technology

Xinhe Semiconductor's unique Hybrid technology, by combining IPD and FBAR technology, can integrate the different advantages of electromagnetic and mechanical wave devices to achieve high-frequency, high-bandwidth, and high-power filters. With the high Q value of FBAR and the flexibility of IPD, various passive functions can be coordinated in Hybrid technology to achieve high-performance, highly integrated RF front-ends such as 5G NR.