CoventorWare sets the standard for MEMS development software, offering a configurable toolset that can distribute capabilities across multiple desktops and extend them as needed. CoventorWare is also used for designing MEMS-enabled nanosystems that require MEMS either for fabrication or as an integral part of the overall system.

In Europe, several initiatives have selected CoventorWare as the MEMS development environment of choice for accelerating MEMS innovations. 

Comprehensive Design Flow

Setting the New Industry Standard
 

Coventor's configurable toolset provides system-level design and capabilities for in-depth analysis after initial design is complete.

CoventorWare is a fully integrated MEMS design environment that offers the most productive path to MEMS design. Its unique capabilities let you by-pass computationally-intensive tools during the initial design stage to efficiently explore designs and converge on a design that has the highest probability of success. Then perform FEM/BEM analysis on critical areas to fine-tune the device.

You can create a MEMS device rapidly using parametric behavioral models of MEMS structures, then evaluate the MEMS device behavior simultaneous with the behavior of electronic control circuitry, environmental effects, and other surrounding systems. Our reduced-order analytical models can rapidly simulate device performance and address manufacturing sensitivities for Design for Manufacturability (DFM). Results are comparable to FEM results, but take only a fraction of the time, so you efficiently explore options to converge on a design.

After converging on a design in a system environment, CoventorWare's analysis tools provide intensive physics evaluation of critical areas of the device. Our suite of FEM and BEM tools is second to none. The interface between the system environment, FEM/BEM analysis, and layout is seamless. Coventor Ware also outputs macro-models that let you integrate your custom devices into our system-level design environment.

Modularity Meets Application Demands

CoventorWare's configurable toolset consists of four bundles:

ARCHITECT

Build the design and simulate its performance utilizing behavioral model building blocks.

DESIGNER

Create 2D layouts and 3D models of ready-to-manufacture devices.

ANALYZER

Perform detailed analysis using tools for simulation, meshing, and results visualization. Features wide range of application-specific solvers.

INTEGRATOR

New in 2003. Extracts reduced-order models of physical effects (stiffness, damping, and inertia) found in most dynamic systems, for use in ARCHITECT and other system-level simulators. Exports Verilog-A templates for integration with control electronics in a Cadence environment.
 

against maskerrors and easily handles a wide range of model scales, all the way from micron-scale details through a complete device to an entire wafer. MEMulator is applicable to all devices that are fabricated with IC-style manufacturing techniques, including MEMS, RF passives, and disk-drive heads.

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Coventor MEMS Applications