SAN JOSE – Cadence Sigrity PowerDC technology supports Future Facilities’ new open neutral file format.

PowerDC technology’s adoption of the single, open-model file format reportedly streamlines the thermal supply chain, promotes interoperability and data exchange, and enables customers to improve their thermal and electrical designs.

Future Facilities’ open model format enables suppliers to develop a single common model file that works with all vendors’ simulation tools supporting the neutral file format. The PowerDC technology can read in this component model file and use it directly.

“Over the years, we have seen significant demand from our customer base for seamless data transfer from various tools. The neutral file format allows us to take an important first step in democratizing the thermal industry, bringing it on par with the MCAD and ECAD markets, where neutral file formats are the norm,” said Akhil Docca, corporate marketing manager at Future Facilities. “With support from Cadence, we look forward to bringing a single, common format to the thermal engineering and simulation community.”

“Electrical and thermal co-simulation is rapidly becoming a requirement for our customers,” said An-Yu Kuo, senior group director, R&D at Cadence. “A key enabling factor for these co-simulations is unification of the various thermal model formats into a common neutral file format that can be used by all EDA tools.”