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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 was at...
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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 held...
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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....
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DAC47 Attendance Down 25%
As you can tell by my title I don’t spin the numbers for our industry’s most popular trade show, so take a look at attendance over the past four years to see how the recession is slowing down for DAC :...
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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 to...
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