Designing Power Management ICs

Designing Power Management ICs
by Paul McLellan on 09-20-2013 at 5:49 pm

With all the focus in design on SoCs in the latest sexy process (Hi-K Metal Gate! FinFETs!) it is easy to forget all the other chips that go into a system. When we say “system on a chip” there are actually very few systems that really get everything onto a single chip. One of the big areas that usually cannot go on the latest… Read More


Fujitsu, Mediatek, Richtek and Synopsys om Custom IC Design

Fujitsu, Mediatek, Richtek and Synopsys om Custom IC Design
by Daniel Payne on 06-24-2013 at 3:01 pm

Synopsys has been acquiring EDA and IP companies at a fast clip over the past few years and it’s often made me wonder how they are going to craft a coherent tool flow for custom IC design. At DACthis year I learned that for schematic capture the winning tool is Custom Designer SE– a relatively new tool, while the IC layout… Read More