mixed-signal design

TSMC has certified the Aprisa place-and-route software from Siemens Digital Industries Software for the N5 and N4 process technologies.

Synopsys and Analog Devices have agreed to provide model libraries for the chipmaker's DC/DC ICs and power regulators that work with the Saber simulation tool.

Cadence has launched a reworked FastSpice engine designed to split work across multiple cores more efficiently.

Pulsic has adopted the freemium approach with a tool that gives designers of analog circuits previews of how they will be implemented on-chip.

Tests on Microsoft Azure's cloud have shown Mentor's AMS simulation tools can run across thousands of processors with near-linear scaling.

Accellera is trying to standardize extensions to UVM for mixed-signal design.

Dialog Semiconductor aims to expand its use of configurable mixed-signal circuitry across its product line following its acquisition of specialist Silego a year ago.

Machine learning is gradually moving into implementation and verification tools for EDA.

The circuits sessions at mid-June's VLSI Symposia in Honolulu feature a number of papers that improve the performance of scaled mixed-signal processes.

Energy harvesting, mechanical reprogrammable logic, and genetic algorithms were among the finalists for the MEMS design competition.