How to Draw a Crowd at DAC
ChipEstimate has savvy marketing and knows how to draw a crowd at DAC: 1) Get a big booth 2) Announce an iPad give away 3)… Read More »How to Draw a Crowd at DAC
ChipEstimate has savvy marketing and knows how to draw a crowd at DAC: 1) Get a big booth 2) Announce an iPad give away 3)… Read More »How to Draw a Crowd at DAC
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.… Read More »Editor Dinner on Tuesday – Synopsys
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… Read More »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… Read More »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… Read More »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… Read More »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… Read More »Parallel SPICE Circuit Simulator Gets Award
I talked with Nicholas Williams of Tanner EDA by phone yesterday to learn more about a new product called HiPer DevGen. Their first two analog… Read More »Tanner EDA adds Analog IC Layout Automation
DRAM cross-section While at Intel I designed DRAMs and some researcher discovered that DRAMs were failing out in the field. These failures were being caused… Read More »Alpha Particles, DRAM, SEU, Toyota Acceleration
I’ve been watching for several years now and the claims of Ciranova to automate analog layout are certainly coming true. Today they proudly talked about… Read More »Ciranova Adds CSR