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…
I just met John Donovan, Editor with Low-Power Design. We’re on laptops blogging, tweeting and catching up on emails. Rick Stanton, Director of Strategy at Dassault Systems chatted with me about using social media in EDA. We both…
On Tuesday I spoke with Chi-Ping Hsu, Senior VP of R&D for the Implementation Products Group about the direction that R&D is headed at Cadence. In 75 minutes we covered 52 corporate slides and I…
I talked with Holly Stump at Jasper by phone last week about their newest release of formal verification tools. Holly has worked before at Sequence and Precedence. Because formal tools examine the state space of…
If your next design has 100 million gates then what tools are you going to use for logic synthesis? Until today you would be faced with breaking up your design into blocks and then stitching…
I’ll be visiting the following list of EDA companies at DAC this year and writing what I learn about each one: ACCIT – Parallel SPICE, http://www.accit-newsystemsresearch.com/ Altos DA – Cell characterization, http://www.altos-da.com/ Analog Rails –…
Readers of this blog –– Daniel Payne’s EDA Thoughts –– were recently treated to a look back on DAC in his blog post “DAC Transitions over Time.” Daniel’s been attending since 1987 and reports on…
Have you ever wondered what an EDA company is thinking about building or actually doing in R&D? I’ll have a chance to speak with either Chi-Ping Hsu, Senior Vice President of Research and Development for…
What if I could save you 50% on your $1M annual budget of EDA tools, IT infrastructure and CAD group expenses? Would you be interested? Today I had a briefing with Vishal Kapoor at Cadence…
My first DAC trip was 1987 when I worked for Silicon Compiler Systems as a corporate Application Engineer. My focus was on the demo suites and getting my just-compiled version of software to actually run…