APTIVIA, next version?

Hello,

I haven't touched cadence (at least to any serious degree) for about
5 years. And even back then I was working with the IC 4.4.5 version. I
was recently told that the APTIVIA module (Virtuoso Aptivia
Specification-Driven Environment) was released (about 5 years ago) for
cadence IC 5.141. From my understanding it permits to do parallel
caracterization across temperature, process, spec sheets ect. in order
to validate the IC and reduce repetitive tasks. Sounds extremely
useful. However in the cadence web site (product tab), I do not see
the cadence Virtuoso Aptivia listed. Was it renamed for a later
version of cadence ?

Thanks in advance,
Roger

 

Roger,

Aptivia was released under this very name at first (I believe), then it was renamed to VSDE
(Virtuoso Spec-Driven Environment) and finally integrated into ADE in IC 6+ (under the new license
model, it's part of ADE-XL or mixed between ADE-XL and ADE-GXL, not sure exactly).

There's maybe a little more to it than that, but that's the story in broad strokes as far as I
understand.

cheers,
Stéphane

 

Thanks for the info
-Roger