High-Performance, High-Capacity Circuit Simulation for Analog, Mixed-Signal, and Memory Designs

Empyrean ALPS® (Accurate Large-capacity Parallel Simulator) is a next-generation, high-performance, high-capacity true SPICE simulator. ALPS leverages advanced parallel computing technologies and breakthrough matrix-solving techniques to deliver exceptional simulation capacity and performance. ALPS provides industry-leading scalability, capacity, and simulation efficiency.

Empyrean ALPS® leverages proprietary Smart Matrix Solving technology to ensure zero accuracy loss in matrix solving, while advanced multi-threading algorithms deliver excellent scalability and significant performance gains for post-layout simulations with more than 100 million elements.

The ALPS suite also includes Empyrean ALPS® GT, a GPU-accelerated simulator that delivers up to 10× faster simulation performance, and Empyrean ALPS® RF, an RF circuit simulator that provides comprehensive RF simulation capabilities.
 

• Empyrean ALPS® GT is a heterogeneous simulation platform built on a CPU-GPU architecture. By leveraging GPU-accelerated processing and proprietary GPU Turbo Smart Matrix Solving (SMS-GT) technology, ALPS GT delivers substantial performance gains over traditional CPU-only architectures. ALPS GT maintains full SPICE accuracy while overcoming the performance bottlenecks associated with large-scale analog and mixed-signal circuit simulations. For post-layout simulations, it can achieve up to 10× faster performance than CPU-based execution. 
   

• Empyrean ALPS® RF employs two core simulation engines spanning both the frequency and time domains. Powered by these engines, ALPS RF provides comprehensive RF simulation capabilities, including large-signal analysis, small-signal analysis, and noise analysis, enabling designers to address the complex challenges of RF circuit design while significantly improving simulation efficiency.
  
  By leveraging Empyrean's proprietary heterogeneous matrix-solving algorithm, ALPS RF delivers outstanding accuracy and parallel computing efficiency, providing RF designers with a powerful and reliable simulation solution.  When accelerated by GPU technology, ALPS RF Harmonic Balance simulation achieves more than a 10× speedup compared to CPU-based solutions.

Key Benefits: Accelerate AMS Simulation and Verification 
 High performance – Smart Matrix Solver delivers 3x-8x speedup over traditional matrix solvers  
 High capacity – supports circuits with >100M elements
 Sign-off accuracy – SPICE accuracy by simulating the circuit using full equations of device models