Pulsic goes freemium with analog-preview tool
Pulsic has adopted the freemium approach with a tool that gives designers of analog circuits previews of how they will be implemented on-chip.
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Mentor scales AMS cloud verification to 10,000 cores
Tests on Microsoft Azure's cloud have shown Mentor's AMS simulation tools can run across thousands of processors with near-linear scaling.
May meeting to push for UVM analog extensions
Accellera is trying to standardize extensions to UVM for mixed-signal design.
Dialog plans configurable mixed-signal expansion
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.
EDA learns to love AI
Machine learning is gradually moving into implementation and verification tools for EDA.
Mixed-signal circuits push scaled CMOS at VLSI
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.
Motion harvester wins MEMS design contest
Energy harvesting, mechanical reprogrammable logic, and genetic algorithms were among the finalists for the MEMS design competition.
Cadence opens three fronts on mixed-signal failures
Cadence has started the rollout of a set of design tools for mixed-signal reliability analysis.
European teams explore 3D integration tradeoffs
Two leading European research institutes presented their work on the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of monolithic 3D integration at this year's IEDM.
X-Fab cuts flicker noise for 180nm process
X-Fab has added a process module to its wide voltage- and temperature-range 180nm mixed-signal process that supports a set of transistors with lower 1/f flicker noise.