Bye, Bye Gemini
I’ve blogged about Gemini before: October 2008 December 2008 December 2008 December 2009 In December 2009 I first heard that Gemini DA was in play by my Silicon Valley sources, then today we read in…
Chip Design Mag
Monthly EDA Networking
If you’re in the Portland, Oregon area on Friday (February 12, 2010) then stop on by the Olive Garden restaurant in Lake Oswego for some old-fashioned, face to face, EDA networking. We run from 11:30AM…
Carbon Footprint is Good For ICs
IBM just demonstrated graphene transistors that could become a replacement for pure silicon-based ICs. | Photo: Courtesy of IBM, posted at EE Times The demonstration showed 100GHz operation at room temperature with a production goal…
So You Want to Start-up an EDA Company?
An interactive workshop with angel investor Jim Hogan and start up executive Paul McLellan Dire predictions about the death, stagnation or maturaion of EDA are premature, says noted angel investor Jim Hogan, a major shaper…
Mentor Warms up to 3D Field Solvers
When I consulted for the start-up company Physware on their new 3d Field Solver 5 years ago it dawned on me – IC designers really need the accuracy of 3D Field Solvers to create their…
Downward EDA Revenue Trends Continue
A picture is worth a 1,000 words so take a look at quarterly EDA revenue as compiled by EDAC: Ron Wilson of EDN has a good summary of Q3 2009 noting that revenue was down…
New Parallel SPICE Start-up Company
SPICE is a wonderful tool for transistor-level circuit designers to predict speed, timing and power of their sensitive designs across Process, Voltage and Temperature regions or corners. One problem is simply run-time of SPICE, it…
3D Field Solvers can be Fast
In SoC designs today parasitic extraction tools produce RC and sometimes L or S-parameter values for full-chip designs using either pattern-matching or equation-based techniques. It gets the job done for most digital designs however when…
Power Consumption, Smartphones and EDA
I’ve been tempted to upgrade to a Smartphone like the iPhone 3GS or Droid because of the rich set of features and I want to appear hip. Doing some research on each of these phones…
Windows Vista and the Falcon Framework
I just upgraded my laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 and it got me thinking about Mentor’s Falcon Framework. How are the two even related? When Microsoft introduced Vista they assumed that the installed…