Tag: analog

Reimagining Custom Design with AI-Powered Virtuoso Studio

Reimagining Custom Design with AI-Powered Virtuoso Studio
by Admin on 08-21-2025 at 2:22 am

Join us for an in-person seminar to explore the future of custom design and migration with AI-powered Virtuoso Studio. Discover how the latest innovations from Cadence are transforming analog, custom, RFIC, and MMIC design. Learn how these advancements enable faster, smarter insight analysis and more precise workflows using

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CEO Interview: BRAM DE MUER of ICsense

CEO Interview: BRAM DE MUER of ICsense
by Daniel Nenni on 08-23-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: CEO Interviews

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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

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Accelerating Analog Signoff with Parasitics

Accelerating Analog Signoff with Parasitics
by Bernard Murphy on 07-17-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: Cadence, EDA

Quantus Insight min

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

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Scientific Analog XMODEL #61DAC

Scientific Analog XMODEL #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 07-16-2024 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Scientific Analog

Scientific Analog 61dac min

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

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Alphacore at the 2024 Design Automation Conference

Alphacore at the 2024 Design Automation Conference
by Daniel Nenni on 06-21-2024 at 10:00 am
Categories: Alphacore, Events, IP

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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

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2024 Outlook with Chris Morrison of Agile Analog

2024 Outlook with Chris Morrison of Agile Analog
by Daniel Nenni on 01-19-2024 at 6:00 am
Categories: Agile Analog, IP

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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

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Do you have Time to Pull in your Tapeout Schedule?

Do you have Time to Pull in your Tapeout Schedule?
by Ronen Laviv on 12-06-2023 at 10:00 am
Categories: AI, EDA
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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

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TSMC OIP – Analog Cell Migration

TSMC OIP – Analog Cell Migration
by Daniel Payne on 12-12-2022 at 10:00 am
Categories: Foundries, TSMC
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Analog Cell min

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

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Symmetry Requirements Becoming More Important and Challenging

Symmetry Requirements Becoming More Important and Challenging
by Tom Simon on 08-24-2021 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Siemens EDA

Symmetry across the design flow

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

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WEBINAR: Pulsic’s Animate Makes Automated Analog Layout a Reality

WEBINAR: Pulsic’s Animate Makes Automated Analog Layout a Reality
by Tom Simon on 03-30-2021 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Events, Pulsic

Pulsic Webinar

Many years ago, digital and analog design flows diverged, with digital design benefiting from increasing levels of automation and more importantly separation between the front-end design process and the back-end design process. While digital design still requires linkages between the front and back end, they are well defined… Read More