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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 IC generators are for: Differential pairs Current mirrors Q: Why…
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 by Alpha particles in the ceramic packages that would strike…
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 CSR using their Helix and PyCells tools for some very…
Blogging has brought me enough fame that Altium asked me to review their FPGA development system called the NanoBoard 3000. I knew that Altium offered schematic capture, simulation and PCB layout tools. This was my…
I’ll be moderating a panel session in the DAC Pavilion on Tuesday, June 15th starting at 4:30PM with real SPICE users from: Atheros Sun Microsystems STMicroelectronics My first idea was to have EDA vendors on…