Infinisim Gets Real
I love to read when a tier-one semiconductor company publicly endorses a SPICE tool, and from a start-up at that! AMCC talks about start-up Infinisim and the RASER circuit simulator. The story is compelling: 50X…
Forte Acquires Arithmatica
Another month, another complimentary EDA acquisition. Forte is well-known for C synthesis and Arithmatica offers datapath synthesis. This combination has a good chance of success because: 1) Complimentary tools 2) Clear management structure (Dan Ganousis…
Apache acquires Sequence
This is how acquisitions in EDA are supposed to work: Friendly, not hostile Complementary products, not overlapping Egos checked at the door, no whining in the press Compatible management philosophy, clear org chart post-merger Apache…
Making SPICE Go Faster with a GPU
Amr Bayoumi, Ph.D. (Chief Technical Adviser) from New Systems Research spoke with me via Skype on Friday. We had a DAC meeting scheduled but I made a mistake about the meeting location and missed it.…
Tanner EDA Update, post-DAC
Last Monday I had a conference call with Nick Williams of Tanner EDA along with Dan Hammond (VP Marketing). In April I blogged about my install and use of their tools. This 21 year-old, privately…
Silicon Frontline – 3D RC Extraction
Dermott Lynch of Silicon Frontline spoke with me by phone on Monday to give an update about how their tools extract 3D accurate RC netlists. We first met at Viewlogic in the 90’s when Dermott…
Magma’s Titan – Analog Elegance
Last Friday I had an online meeting with Ashutosh Mauskar, vice president of Magma’s Custom Design Business Unit to learn what was new with the Titan product lineup. Magma has been very involved with interoperable…
Berkeley Design Automation
Paul Estrada, COO met with me at their booth to share how three major features have been added in the past year for their AnalogFastSPICE platform: 1) Megasolvers – These help out on large designs…
Solido Design
I met with Pat Drennan – CTO on Tuesday to learn more about Solido Design Automation. Pat is an ex Motorola/Freescale guy who really likes statistics and silicon device physics. For years now the foundries…
Apache Design Automation
On Tuesday I had a Suite presentation from Jerome Toublanc, Principal Product Engineer at Apache. They are a private growing company founded in 2003 with a focus on power and noise integrity for chips, SIPs…