IHP e.V

IHP is a non-profit organization that pursues interdisciplinary basic and application-oriented research in the fields of high performance microelectronics and communication. It has developed into an internationally recognized competence center for silicon-germanium offering research partners and customers access to its SiGe:C BiCMOS technologies and integrated RF modules. The ADS Silicon RFIC Interoperability improves the design process by allowing the user to work off a single design database in ADS and Virtuoso. This allows the user to edit and simulate schematic designs created by Virtuoso in ADS and vice-versa or open a layout generated in either tool. For example, a user can open a Virtuoso IC layout cell view in ADS, instantiate the cell within a package or module, and then run an electromagnetic simulation on the complete design to validate its overall system performance.