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… Berkeley Design Automation
On Monday night at DAC I was treated to dinner and entertainment courtesy of Mentor Graphics. At DAC they like to invite press, customers, vendors and now bloggers like me. A bus whisked us away… Mentor Dinner Party
Cadence Mixed Signal Pete McCrorie and Kishore Karnane gave a suite presentation on the Virtuoso Analog Design Environment (ADE) showing how AMS Designer gives multi-level simulation of SPICE, RTL, TLM and Behavioral languages. Circuit simulators… Cadence Mixed Signal
ATEEDA David Hamilton, CEO at ATEEDA introduced me to his company where they help cut the cost of testing analog pins on your IC by using conventional digital testers. OptimATE has been around for two… ATEEDA – cutting the costs of analog test
Springsoft – Custom IC Layout Duncan McDonald presented in their suite about the custom IC layout editing of Laker, along with the P&R provided by Pyxis. Because these tools use Open Access (OA) in runtime… Laker, OA, Pyxis – A happy and expanding IC family
Neal Carney met with me on Monday afternoon to provide an update on what’s new at this hard IP company. They acquired Blaze DFM in the last year and are offering two products: PowerTrim and… Tela Innovations – 1D Layout is Good For DFM
Mephisto Kenneth Francken, CEO at Mephisto explained how his tools will help make analog designers more efficient by helping them to do analog IP verification, IP migration and IP creation. This Belgium-based start-up kind of… Mephisto and Analog Design Automation
CustomSim & HSPICE Christopher Labrecque, Marketing Manager for Analog & Mixed Signal made a suite presentation on CustomSim which includes circuit simulators like: HSPICE, HSIM, NanoSim and XA. Fredrik Ivarsson, Senior Corporate AE demonstrated the… CustomSIM and HSPICE
What is a virtual IDM? To me it is the collaboration of ARM, Chartered, IBM, Samsung and Synopsys as they announced on Monday morning how they are collaborating on vertically optimized technology for 32nm and… Virtual IDM