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Synopsys Journal is a quarterly publication for management dedicated to covering the latest issues facing designers today. It has been published now for two and a half years. Of course, you can go here and, once registered, get a copy of the journal.
But people don’t have a lot of time to read a journal like this so it has been … Read More
Noise Couplingby Paul McLellan on 10-24-2011 at 8:47 amCategories: Ansys, Inc., EDA
One of the challenges of designing a modern SoC is that the digital parts of the circuit are really something that in an ideal world you’d keep as far away from the analog as possible. The digital parts of the circuit generate large amounts of noise, especially in the power supply and in the substrate, two areas where it is impossible… Read More
The TSMC OIP conference was Monday and Tuesday of last week. You have probably NOT read about it since it was invitation only and press was not invited. Slides were not made available (except for Mentor), no photos or video were allowed, it was a very private affair. Given that, I won’t be able to go into great detail but I will give you… Read More
AnSem has been in the AMS design business since 1998 and uses a variety of commercial EDA tools along with internally developed tools and scripts to automate the process of analog design and technology porting. Their IC designers have completed some 40 AMS projects in diverse areas like:
- RF CMOS
- LNA, VCO, Mixers
- Synthesizers
- Low-IF/Zero-IF
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There are lots of places that Apache is going to popping up in the next few weeks.
Firstly, Andrew Yang will deliver the keynote on October 24th at the Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS) in San Jose. He will be talking about “Chip-Package-System convergence: bridging multiple disciplings… Read More
Very interesting question from Zahrein in this thread: “how to manage an embedded USB 3.0 PHY Verification”? To clearly position the problem, Zahrein need to run the RTL verification of a complete SoC integrating an USB 3.0 function, that is the Controller (digital) and the PHY (Analog Mixed Signal) embedded in the SoC. The question,… Read More
EDA companies and foundries must closely collaborate in order to deliver IC tool flows that work without surprises at the 40nm and 28nm nodes.
Tomorrow in San Jose you can attend this 4th annual event hosted by TSMC along with Mentor Graphics and other EDA and IP companies.
Here are some of the topics that will interest IC designers… Read More
EDA and ITCby Daniel Payne on 10-17-2011 at 10:44 amCategories: EDA, Synopsys
Every SOC that is designed must be tested and the premier conference for test is ITC, held last month in Anaheim, California.
I spoke with Robert Ruiz of Synopsys by phone on September 21st to get an update on what is new with EDA for test engineers this year. Robert and I first met back at Viewlogic when Sunrise was acquired in the 90’s.… Read More
Soft IP Qualificationby Paul McLellan on 10-14-2011 at 3:10 pmCategories: EDA
At the TSMC Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum (try saying that three times in a row) next week (on Tuesday 18th), Atrenta will present a paper on the TSMC soft IP qualification flow. It will be presented by Anuj Kumar, senior manager of the customer consulting group.
More and more, chips are not put together what we think of … Read More
Flynn Was Right: How a 2003 Warning Foretold Today’s Architectural Pivot