CyberEDA – PCSIM
CK Lee, Yong Dai CK Lee, CEO of CyberEDA History – Epic, Synopsys, Nassda, Synopsys Analog Design Debugging System (ADDS) – Helps IC designer to find bugs, RC values, compare simulation results. – Still in…
OVM and UVM
Buzz in the OVM UVM Booth Crowds of engineers were interested in OVM and UVM this year at DAC.
Interoperability Breakfast – Synposys
3D glasses to lighten us up TSMC and ST presenters Winner of 10th annual Tensing Norgay Interoperability Award: IEEE ISTO Overview For the past several years I’ve seen TSMC create the iPDK standard and seen…
Library Technologies
Who Mehmet Cirit, Founder of Library Technologies History I first met Mehmet at Silicon Compilers in the 80’s and have kept in touch with him over the years. What New product – Chip Timer, speeds…
Editor Dinner on Tuesday – Synopsys
Blogging in EDA has its rewards and last night was a real treat as Synopsys provided a superb dinner experience at Mr. Stox in Anaheim. Editors, Bloggers and Synopsys folks enjoy socializing The fabled wine…
Silicon Frontline: F3D – Fast 3D Extraction for IC Designs
WhoDermott Lynch, VP of Sales and Marketing Overview May of 2009 introduced Silicon Frontline as a full-chip 3D extraction company, more accurate than pattern-based extraction tools. Notes News – TSMC has adopted Silicon Frontline in their AMS…
Farewell to Wally Rhines at Mentor?
A friend just sent me the news link that Carl Icahn is making a bid to control Mentor Graphics with a 6.9% equity position in MENT stock. Of course that news helped boost the share…
DAC Panel Session in the Pavilion – All About SPICE
Hot and SPICEy: Users Review Different Flavors of SPICE and Fast SPICE Topic Area: Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF Design Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Time: 4:30 PM — 5:15 PM Location: Booth #694 Summary: Are you one of the…
New ESD Software Tool from Apache
On Thursday morning I spoke with Dian Yang, Sr VP of Product Engineering at Apache by phone about a new ESD software tool called PathFinder (sorry Nissan, but this isn’t an autom0bile). I learned how…