DAC 2011

Read my trip reports:

• Sunday Night at DAC
• Magma, ARM, Globalfoundries
• Nimbic (formerly Physware) – 3D Field Solver in the Cloud or Desktop
• FineSim adds RF analysis and Tcl Circuit Checks
• IPL Alliance focuses on iPDKs and Analog Constraints
• Physical IP group at ARM
• Tanner EDA at DAC
• Extreme DA at DAC
• Synopsys IC Validator
• Circuit Simulation and IC Layout update from Mentor
• DRC tool guns for Calibre at DAC
• An Affordable 3D Field Solver
• Hardware Configuration Management at DAC
• Circuit Simulation Update from Cadence at DAC
• Reduced IC Leakage at DAC
• Cadence Spinout at DAC
• RLCK Reduction Tool at DAC
• Ciranova Update at DAC
• EDA Interoperability at DAC
• One Trillion Transistor IC Layout at DAC
• Berkeley Design Automation at DAC
• Blue Pearl at DAC
• Synopsys, ARM, Samsung, Globalfoundries (Part 1)
• Synopsys, ARM, Samsung, Globalfoundries (Part 2)
• CyberEDA Adds a Transistor-level Debugger
• QuickCap for IC Extraction at DAC
• HSPICE gets Faster, better Convergence
• Invarian and AnaGlobe

EDA Perspective

My engineering career began at Intel designing DRAMs at a time when Design Rule Checking (DRC) and Layout Versus Schematic checking (LVS) where done manually by New College Graduates (NCGs). It quickly dawned on me that Computer Aided Design (CAD) was desperately needed. Intel had a strong culture of internally developed CAD tools however that team never seemed to be able to automate everything that I wanted, so I just started writing my own CAD tools to make my life easier as an engineer.

After 8 years in IC design I decided to do something about the dearth of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and joined a start-up called Silicon Compilers Inc in San Jose. The vision at SCI was quite powerful: Design at a high level of abstraction, push a button and the chip is automatically created both logically and physically. Mentor Graphics saw the promise of SCI and acquired the company.

My perspective on EDA comes from experience as a full-custom IC circuit designer, Application Engineer, Technical Marketing Engineer, Product Marketing Manager, EDA consultant and EDA blogger.

EDA Consulting Services

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My work can be conducted in stealth mode or out in the open to fit your project.

EDA at SemiWiki.com

This new site was launched in January 2011 and covers the EDA plus IP industries with: Forums, Wiki Pages and Blogs. We have several veteran bloggers: Daniel Nenni, Paul McLellan, Eric Esteve, Ed Mckernan, Daniel Payne

• Taiwan trip Report!
• DesignCon 2012 Trip Reports (iPad2 Giveaway)
• SemiWiki Legal
• TSMC 28nm Yield called into question? Again? Really?
• Constrained Random Verification and Simulators
• SYNOPSYS Analog Insights blog is back !
• ICCAD 2012: Preliminary Call for Papers
• Schematic Capture and SPICE on an iPad?
• SystemC - IEEE OSCI Release LRM
• Verification Survey - Enter to win an iPad 2 or iPod shuffle

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