AMS design flows can follow a traditional path or consider trying something new. The traditional path goes along the following steps:
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AMS Design, Optimization and Porting
GaN HEMT modeling with ANN parameters targets extensibilityDesigners choosing gallium nitride (GaN) transistors may face…Read More
AMAT has OK Qtr but Mixed Outlook Means Weaker 2025 - China & Delays & CHIPS Act?- AMAT has OK QTR but outlook below…Read More
More Headwinds - CHIPS Act Chop? - Chip Equip Re-Shore? Orders Canceled & Fab Delay- CHIPS Act more likely to be maimed…Read More
Next Generation of Systems Design at SiemensElectronic systems design is filled with a wide…Read More
PVT and Statistical Design in Nanometer Process Geometries
On Sept 22, 2011, the nm Circuit Verification Forumwill be held in Silicon Valley, hosted by Berkeley Design Automation. At this forum, Trent McConaghy of Solido DA will present a case study on the TSMC Reference Flow 2.0 VCO circuit, to showcase Fast PVT in the steps of extracting PVT corners, verifying PVT, and doing post-layout… Read More
Fast Track Seminars
Atrenta’s SoC realization seminars, “Fast Track Your SoC Design” have started.The first one was in Ottowa last Tuesday, and it was a full house. In a straw poll, most of the attendees acknowledged facing IP handoff and quality issues. The keynote speaker was Dr Yuejian Wu, director of ASIC development at Infinera… Read More
Phil Bishop and marketing at Magma
Earlier in the week I met with Phil Bishop, who is the corporate VP of worldwide marketing at Magma.
I started by asking him where he came from. He originally started as a designer at Motorola in microprocessors and microcontrollers. Then he moved to Silicon Compiler Systems (remember them?) who ended up being acquired by Mentor.… Read More
Tanner EDA Newsletter – Fall 2011
From the President: Another Great YearThanks to innovative, cost-effective technology and excellence in customer support, we’ve just ended fiscal year 2011 (on May 31st) with solid growth. Revenue was up 8%, we added 139 new customers, and we’re continuing to reach out to technology partners for MEMS and for the analog and mixed-signal… Read More
Simulating in the Cloud
Yesterday I met with David Hsu who is the marketing guy for Synopsys’s cloud computing solution that they announced at their user-group meeting earlier this year. It was fun to catch up; David used to work for me back in VLSI days although he was an engineer writing place and route software back then.
David admits that this is… Read More
Hardware Configuration Management approach awarded a Patent
Hardware designers use complex EDA tool flows that have collections of underlying binary and text files. Keeping track of the versions of your IC design can be a real issue when your projects use teams of engineers. ClioSoft has been offering HCM (Hardware Configuration Management) tools that work in the most popular flows of: … Read More
Another Up Year in a Down Economy for Tanner EDA
Almost every week I read about a slowing world economy, yet in EDA we have some bright spots to talk about, like Tanner EDA finishing its 24th year with an 8% increase in revenue. More details are in the press release from today.
I spoke with Greg Lebsack, President of Tanner EDA on Monday to ask about how they are growing. Greg has been… Read More
When analog/RF/mixed-signal IC design meets nanometer CMOS geometries!
In working with TSMC and GlobalFoundries on AMS design reference flows I have experienced first hand the increasing verification challenges of nanometer analog, RF, and mixed-signal circuits. Tools in this area have to be both silicon accurate and blindingly fast! Berkeley Design Automation is one of the key vendors in this … Read More
Memo To New AMD CEO: Time For A Breakout Strategy!
“Where’s the Taurus?” In the history of company turnarounds, it was one of the most penetrating and catalyzing opening questions ever offered by a new CEO to a demoralized executive team. The CEO was Alan Mullaly, who spent years at Boeing and at one point in the 1980s studied the successful rollout of the original Ford Taurus. For… Read More
More Headwinds – CHIPS Act Chop? – Chip Equip Re-Shore? Orders Canceled & Fab Delay