Semiconductors

Digital Design

Model and simulate digital systems using wireless, vision, and signal processing algorithms, along with extensive math and trigonometry functions and complex state control logic. Build your models using the level of abstraction that allows the right tradeoff between accuracy and simulation speed. This rapid design space exploration helps you make the right choices on system architecture and quantizations. Existing Verilog^®, VHDL^®, and C/C++ models can be imported, enabling continuous integration.

Perform System-on-Chip (SoC) hardware/software co-design and simulation with MATLAB and Simulink, which consider SoC architecture as well as task execution and OS effects. This action permits a high-fidelity analysis of software performance and hardware utilization very early in the product development process.

RF IC and System Design

Design, analyze, and simulate RF systems using measurement data such as S-parameters, data sheet specifications, or physical properties. Build models of RFIC transceivers and integrate them with digital signal processing algorithms and control logic to accurately simulate adaptive architectures such as automatic gain control (AGC), digital predistortion (DPD), and tunable matching networks. Integrate the RF front-end with antenna arrays to model beamforming architectures taking into account near and far field coupling.

With MATLAB and Simulink, you can model RF systems at different levels of abstraction. Circuit envelope simulation enables high-fidelity multi-carrier simulation of networks with arbitrary topologies. Harmonic balance analysis computes the effects of non-linearity on gain and on second-order and third-order intercept points (IP2 and IP3). The Equivalent Baseband library enables fast, discrete-time simulation to validate the performance of a single-carrier cascaded RF system.

MATLAB also provides LTE, 5G, WLAN, and Bluetooth standard-compliant functions, apps, and reference examples for modeling, simulating, and verifying various communications systems. You can configure, simulate, measure, and analyze end-to-end communications links. You can also create and reuse a conformance test bench to verify that your designs, prototypes, and implementations complying with RF standards.

Verification

Verify MATLAB and Simulink models in a structured way, defining ASIC verification environments, test cases, and formal properties. Regression tools and formal engines are provided, enabling you to find bugs early in the design flow. In order to quantify the verification results, coverage measurement and requirement traceability tools are supplied.

Export system models, verification environments, and test cases from MATLAB or Simulink as SystemVerilog DPI-C or UVM components and reuse them as drivers, checkers, or reference using HDL simulators such as Cadence^® Xcelium, Siemens^® Questa, or Synopsys^® VCS. You can also use HDL cosimulation to compare MATLAB and Simulink models with their Verilog or VHDL representations.

Semiconductor Manufacturing

Yield is the most important factor in overall semiconductor operations. With MATLAB and Simulink, you can develop, integrate, and deploy systems that use technologies like deep learning, predictive maintenance, and image processing. These systems enable increased production yield by enhancing semiconductor process control; minimizing maintenance overhead by deploying a photolithography system with fault detection; and improving equipment reliability by estimating the remaining useful life of a machine.