Magma’s Titan – Analog Elegance
Last Friday I had an online meeting with Ashutosh Mauskar, vice president of Magma’s Custom Design Business Unit to learn what was new with the Titan product lineup. Magma has been very involved with interoperable…
Ciranova – More Analog, Less Time
I met with Dave Milman, Marketing at Ciranova on Tuesday afternoon. Big news this last week is that TSMC is now supporting iPDKs because we are no longer locked to Cadence Pcells. PDKs from foundry…
Orora Design Technologies
On Tuesday I met with Richard Shi, Ph.D.,Chairman and CTO of Orora Design Technologies. This company offered the 1st – optimizer and analog synthesis tool. They showed me three tools for use by analog design…
Apache Design Automation
On Tuesday I had a Suite presentation from Jerome Toublanc, Principal Product Engineer at Apache. They are a private growing company founded in 2003 with a focus on power and noise integrity for chips, SIPs…
Solido Design
I met with Pat Drennan – CTO on Tuesday to learn more about Solido Design Automation. Pat is an ex Motorola/Freescale guy who really likes statistics and silicon device physics. For years now the foundries…
Berkeley Design Automation
Paul Estrada, COO met with me at their booth to share how three major features have been added in the past year for their AnalogFastSPICE platform: 1) Megasolvers – These help out on large designs…
Mentor Dinner Party
On Monday night at DAC I was treated to dinner and entertainment courtesy of Mentor Graphics. At DAC they like to invite press, customers, vendors and now bloggers like me. A bus whisked us away…
Cadence Mixed Signal
Cadence Mixed Signal Pete McCrorie and Kishore Karnane gave a suite presentation on the Virtuoso Analog Design Environment (ADE) showing how AMS Designer gives multi-level simulation of SPICE, RTL, TLM and Behavioral languages. Circuit simulators…
ATEEDA – cutting the costs of analog test
ATEEDA David Hamilton, CEO at ATEEDA introduced me to his company where they help cut the cost of testing analog pins on your IC by using conventional digital testers. OptimATE has been around for two…
Laker, OA, Pyxis – A happy and expanding IC family
Springsoft – Custom IC Layout Duncan McDonald presented in their suite about the custom IC layout editing of Laker, along with the P&R provided by Pyxis. Because these tools use Open Access (OA) in runtime…