At DAC you can measure buzz by how many people are crowded into your booth. I saw a crowd at the Oasys booth, so stopped to take in their 10 minute overview presentation. Here’s what I learned.… Read More
Speeding Design Closure at DAC
Electronic Design Automation
Analysis of Power, Thermal, EM, IR at DAC
Most EDA start-up companies have a narrow product focus to complement existing tool flows, however Invarian is taking a much bolder approach by offering tools for:
- Power analysis
- Thermal analysis
- EM / IR analysis
- 3D Thermal analysis
Analog FastSPICE at DAC
Berkeley DA coined the phrase “Analog FastSPICE”, and I’ve been getting an update from them at DAC for several years now. In Austin I met with Paul Estradathe COO and Patrick Muyshondt.
Paul Estrada
Paul Estrada, COO (circa 2010)
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HW Prototyping and HLS at DAC
I love it when EDA companies send their engineers to DAC because I learn more of the unvarnished truth about their products. I met with Bill Thomas of Aldec to get an update on their HW prototyping boards, then two NEC engineers to learn about High Level Synthesis.
HW Prototyping
Bill Thomas, Research Engineer at Aldec
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EDA Tools from China at DAC
Last year I was surprised at DAC by an un-heard of EDA company from China, ICScape. This year I followed up and spoke with Ravi Ravikumar about what’s new with ICScape in 2013.… Read More
Validating Hard IP & Std Cell Libraries at DAC
The building blocks for every SoC are standard cell libraries that are assembled, designed and verified together. But how do we really know if all the data formats used during design are correct and consistent? To answer that question I spoke with Johan Peetersof Fractal Technologiesat DAC.
Johan Peeters, Rene Donkers
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A 3D Field Solver for Parasitic Extraction Thermal ESD Analysis
The smaller the process node the more necessary it is that you extract accurate parasitics from interconnect and 3D structures in order to analyze timing, thermal effects and ESD compliance. Silicon Frontlinehas EDA tools in all three of these categories, so I met with Dermott Lynchat DAC to get an annual update.
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Aart: Technomic Push-Pull
Aart de Geus gave one of the visionary look to the next 50 years of EDA as a warmup to Stephen Wu’s keynote. EDA is enabling the greatest push-pull ever, part of an exponential change on a scale never before seen.
Technologies seem to go through a 50 year technical push phase (driven by improving the technology) followed by a 50… Read More
An EDA update from Dassault Systemes at DAC
I first met Michael Munseyback at Viewlogic in the 1990’s, so was pleased to meet with him at DACand get an update on what Dassault Systemes has to offer the EDA world.
Michael Munsey, Dassault Systemes
SPICE update from ProPlus at DAC
With EDA tool development in San Jose, Beijing and China, ProPlusis probably best known for their device modeling software called BSIMProPlus. At DAC I met with Lianfeng Yang, Ph.D. the VP of Marketing to hear about what’s new.
Lianfeng Yeng, ProPlus
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