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…
Ciranova – More Analog, Less Time
I met with Dave Milman, Marketing at Ciranova on Tuesday afternoon. Big news this last week is that TSMC is now supporting iPDKs because we are no longer locked to Cadence Pcells. PDKs from foundry…
Mentor Dinner Party
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…
Cadence Mixed Signal
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…
ATEEDA – cutting the costs of analog test
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…
Laker, OA, Pyxis – A happy and expanding IC family
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…
Mephisto and Analog Design Automation
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…
CustomSIM and HSPICE
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…
Methodics
I met with Simon Butler of Methodics, along with Joe Fowler of Fowler Communications to learn about how former Cadence people started the company to help hardware designers benefit from software methodologies. They define Design…
Virtual IDM
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…