The Laker™ Advanced Design Platform (ADP) unites the full-featured Laker schematic editor, open simulation console and LakerWave™ waveform analyzer to create a single circuit design environment. It works seamlessly with our popular Laker Layout products and all of the popular analog simulators to provide a complete solution for the rapid design of your analog, mixed-signal, memory, and custom digital IC designs.

Major Benefits

• Seamless integration with the Laker Custom Layout Automation System for a complete custom design flow
• Open environment  to mix and match into existing flows
• Ensures that design intent and analog constraints are communicated to layout
• Accelerates downstream layout and debugging processes

Major Features

Schematic Editor

The core of the Laker Design Platform is the intuitive and easy-to-use full-featured schematic editor

• Manual and automated symbol generation features help you to quickly create new or higher level devices
• Advanced hierarchy search-and-replace capabilities
• The Design Hierarchy Browser generates an up-to-date design hierarchy tree during schematic creation providing you with real-time visualization and useful cross-probing with your schematic
• Color differentiation between multiple nets across the hierarchy allow you to easily trace schematic data paths
• The Laker Design Platform shares a common database with the Laker Layout system allowing you to realize corresponding layout objects with a simple drag-and-drop operation from the schematic view
• The optional Laker Constraint Editor allows you to analyze the schematic and automatically extract, edit or create layout constraints such as matching devices. Created constraints can be directly passed to Laker Layout for design/constraint-driven layout, placement and routing

Automatic Schematic Generator

• Automatic creation of user-readable, hierarchical schematics for editing, ECO, or layout generation from CDL, SPICE, Verilog® gate level, or EDIF 200 netlists   
• The ability to import schematic data enables an effective, smooth, and clear transfer of design intent, attributes and parameters from Circuit Design to Mask Design

Simulation Control Console

• An easy-to-use control panel helps you to specify simulation parameters and execute simulation without leaving the Laker Design Platform
• A common interface lets you directly link to familiar,  best-in-class simulators including HSPICE®, Spectre®, Eldo®, ADiT™, HSIM™, NanoSim® and MSIM®
• Ability to Import a net or device from the schematic to the simulation console allows you to add probing signals with drag-and-drop simplicity

Back-Annotate Simulation Results

• Back-annotate node voltage and device operating point and operating region values to schematic.
•  Highlight devices according to a user-defined equation to quickly isolate devices of interest

LakerWave Waveform Analyzer

The Laker Design Platform provides powerful and interactive waveform analysis that supports both time domain and frequency domain for mixed-signal designers.

• Multi-waveform viewing capability allows you to open several waveform windows to display multiple panels and plots
• Pre-selector helps you easily to locate data points for accelerated waveform measurement with gravity capability
• Real-time display of X/Y coordinates and the values for multiple measurements allows you to see your results as you move the cursor
• FFT analysis capability helps you to evaluate distortion
• Analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion functions eases layout for mixed-signal designs
• Ability to create eye diagrams allows you to perform jitter analysis
• Schematic to waveform analyzer cross probing provides intuitive, real-time analysis