Ciranova Receives Intel Funding
At the 2009 DAC I was visiting Ciranova at their booth when an Intel guy walked up and started talking excitedly with an executive about using Ciranova tools, at which point the executive asked me…
DAC 2009
Making SPICE Go Faster with a GPU
Amr Bayoumi, Ph.D. (Chief Technical Adviser) from New Systems Research spoke with me via Skype on Friday. We had a DAC meeting scheduled but I made a mistake about the meeting location and missed it.…
Tanner EDA Update, post-DAC
Last Monday I had a conference call with Nick Williams of Tanner EDA along with Dan Hammond (VP Marketing). In April I blogged about my install and use of their tools. This 21 year-old, privately…
Silicon Frontline – 3D RC Extraction
Dermott Lynch of Silicon Frontline spoke with me by phone on Monday to give an update about how their tools extract 3D accurate RC netlists. We first met at Viewlogic in the 90’s when Dermott…
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…
Tela Innovations – 1D Layout is Good For DFM
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…
Mephisto and Analog Design Automation
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…
Methodics
I met with Simon Butler of Methodics, along with Joe Fowler of Fowler Communications to learn about how former Cadence people started the company to help hardware designers benefit from software methodologies. They define Design…
Sunday at DAC
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…