Ansys RedHawk-SC in 2024 (specifically the 2024 R1 and R2 releases) continues to be a leading solution for power integrity and reliability signoff for integrated circuits (ICs), particularly for advanced nodes down to 3nm. Below is a concise overview based on available information, focusing on its features, updates, and relevance in 2024:
Key Features of Ansys RedHawk-SC
Industry Standard for Power Integrity: RedHawk-SC is recognized as the gold standard for voltage drop and electromigration multiphysics signoff for digital designs. It ensures robust, low-power designs without performance loss by detecting and correcting dynamic voltage drop (DvD) issues.
Cloud-Native Architecture: Built on the SeaScape platform, it leverages elastic compute scalability, enabling full-chip analysis with thousands of CPU cores and modest memory requirements. This allows for rapid analysis of designs with billions of transistors.
Advanced Power Analytics (APA): Provides high coverage for dynamic power supply noise, comprehensive DvD diagnostics, and what-if analysis for optimizing power and performance. It supports both vector and vectorless activity inputs and integrates with tools like Ansys Path FX for timing variability analysis.
Multiphysics Capabilities: Integrates with RedHawk-SC Electrothermal for thermal and mechanical stress analysis in 2.5D/3D ICs, and with PathFinder-SC for electrostatic discharge (ESD) analysis.
Foundry Certification: Certified by major foundries for finFET processes down to 3nm, with proven accuracy in thousands of tapeouts.
Security Enhancements: RedHawk-SC Security, part of the 2024 portfolio, identifies hardware side-channel vulnerabilities in pre-silicon IC designs, analyzing power noise and electromagnetic emissions.
