Neal Carney met with me on Monday afternoon to provide an update on what’s new at this hard IP company. They acquired Blaze DFM in the last year and are offering two products: PowerTrim and… Tela Innovations – 1D Layout is Good For DFM
Mephisto Kenneth Francken, CEO at Mephisto explained how his tools will help make analog designers more efficient by helping them to do analog IP verification, IP migration and IP creation. This Belgium-based start-up kind of… Mephisto and Analog Design Automation
CustomSim & HSPICE Christopher Labrecque, Marketing Manager for Analog & Mixed Signal made a suite presentation on CustomSim which includes circuit simulators like: HSPICE, HSIM, NanoSim and XA. Fredrik Ivarsson, Senior Corporate AE demonstrated the… CustomSIM and HSPICE
What is a virtual IDM? To me it is the collaboration of ARM, Chartered, IBM, Samsung and Synopsys as they announced on Monday morning how they are collaborating on vertically optimized technology for 32nm and… Virtual IDM
I just met John Donovan, Editor with Low-Power Design. We’re on laptops blogging, tweeting and catching up on emails. Rick Stanton, Director of Strategy at Dassault Systems chatted with me about using social media in EDA. We both… Sunday at DAC
On Tuesday I spoke with Chi-Ping Hsu, Senior VP of R&D for the Implementation Products Group about the direction that R&D is headed at Cadence. In 75 minutes we covered 52 corporate slides and I… Cadence R&D: Chi-Ping Hsu
If your next design has 100 million gates then what tools are you going to use for logic synthesis? Until today you would be faced with breaking up your design into blocks and then stitching… New Logic Synthesis Vendor Unveiled
I talked with Holly Stump at Jasper by phone last week about their newest release of formal verification tools. Holly has worked before at Sequence and Precedence. Because formal tools examine the state space of… Jasper Beefs Up Formal Verification
I’ll be visiting the following list of EDA companies at DAC this year and writing what I learn about each one: ACCIT – Parallel SPICE, http://www.accit-newsystemsresearch.com/ Altos DA – Cell characterization, http://www.altos-da.com/ Analog Rails –… My List of DAC Exhibitors