Digital design engineers have used DFT automation technologies like scan and ATPG for decades now, however, analog blocks embedded within SoCs have historically required that a test engineer write tests that require specialized expertise and that can take man-months to debug. Siemens has a long history in the DFT field, SPICE… Read More
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Bram co-founded ICsense in 2004 as a spin-off of the University of Leuven. He is CEO since 2004 and helped growing the company from 4 to over 100 people in 20 years while being profitable every year. He managed the acquisition by TDK in 2017. He is an experienced entrepreneur in the micro-electronics field with a strong interest in … Read More
An under-appreciated but critical component in signing off the final stage of chip design for manufacture is timing closure – aligning accurate timing based on final physical implementation with the product specification. Between advanced manufacturing processes and growing design sizes, the most important factors determining… Read More
Transistor-level circuit designers have long used SPICE for circuit simulation, mostly because it is silicon accurate and helps them to predict the function, timing, power, waveforms, slopes and delays in a cell before fabrication. RTL designers use digital simulators that have a huge capacity but are lacking analog modeling.… Read More
Alphacore Inc., an industry leader in proven high-performance analog and radio-frequency (RF) design building blocks, end products, and intellectual property (IP) licensing and non-recurring engineering (NRE) design services. Our customers include multi-national corporations to ground-breaking startups. We were … Read More
Agile Analog focuses on providing analog and mixed-signal IP (Intellectual Property) solutions for the semiconductor industry. They specialize in developing analog and mixed-signal designs that can be integrated into various electronic devices and systems. Composa™ is their unique technology that automatically generates… Read More
So… , we’re 4 months before tapeout. You were assigned to close place & route on three complex key blocks. You have 15 machines for the job, 5 per block.
You send your first batch, 5 runs per block. You’re not very surprised that your first batch fails. You modify the scripts, and run another batch. And… (Surprise… Read More
The world of analog cell design and migration is quite different from digital, because the inputs and outputs to an analog cell often have a continuously variable voltage level over time, instead of just switching between 1 and 0. Kenny Hsieh of TSMC presented on the topic of analog cell migration at the recent North American OIP … Read More
Humans certainly have always had an aesthetic preference for symmetry. We also see symmetry showing up frequently in nature. The importance of symmetry in electronic designs has been apparent for decades. There are a host of analog structures that require balanced layout. For instance, these include differential pairs and … Read More
