Who Jerome Toublanc, Principal Product Engineer at Apache Design Automation Overview Notes PathFinder – ESD integrity for advanced electronic circuits What is ESD? ESD for an IC at an IO pad. How do you protect… PathFinder – ESD Integrity for IC designs
Buzz in the OVM UVM Booth Crowds of engineers were interested in OVM and UVM this year at DAC.
What do cars have in common with EDA? Well, nothing really, however this booth of IC Manage gets the Coolest Car award from me: Coolest Car at booth of IC Manage
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… Editor Dinner on Tuesday – Synopsys
Our panel discussion on Tuesday afternoon was well attended, thanks to the lively discussion from our three panelists: Aaron Barker – Oracle, Broomfield, CO Pierluigi Daglio – STMicroelectronics, Agrate, Italy Jin-Qin Lu – Atheros Communications,… DAC Pavilion Panel – Hot and SPICEy: Users Review Different Flavors of SPICE and Fast SPICE
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… Silicon Frontline: F3D – Fast 3D Extraction for IC Designs
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… Farewell to Wally Rhines at Mentor?
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… DAC Panel Session in the Pavilion – All About SPICE
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… New ESD Software Tool from Apache
A SPICE simulation running on a single thread or single core can take hours, days or weeks to complete. Re-writing a SPICE tool to harness multi-threaded or multi-core architecture makes a lot of sense because… Parallel SPICE Circuit Simulator Gets Award