There has been vast progress over the last 30 years or so in digital layout automation, making it possible to develop complex digital ICs relatively quickly. However, for analog layout, techniques are ...

IC Mask Design (Limerick, Ireland), an IC physical design company and Tanner EDA (Monrovia, CA), a tool provider for designing analog/mixed-signal ICs, ASICs, and MEMs are collaborating on the ...

Tool developers have been working to keep pace with these requirements. For example, Synopsys has delivered faster circuit simulation performance every year, with improvements in both single core ...

Animate Preview, the analog layout design tool that generates physical information after a schematic is loaded, is now available for complimentary download and installation. It provides engineers with ...

AI-driven design solution enables circuit optimization, saving weeks of manual and iterative effort while increasing design quality. Interoperable process design kits for all advanced TSMC FinFET ...

Sensors are everywhere. In the context of Industry 4.0 and IoT, we face an ever-increasing demand for high-quality sensing. Data acquisition is fundamental to adaptive production chains. So ...

New funding will help Astrus expand its team and deliver AI tools that accelerate chip development for leading semiconductor companies Astrus, the AI startup building the world’s first physics-aware ...

Pattern matching is best known for its use in detecting lithographic hotspots, but it’s also widely used across all physical verification flows, and has expanded into design-for-manufacturing (DFM) ...