Design-Reuse

The Challenges and Benefits of Analog/Mixed-Signal and RF System Verification above the Transistor Level

Abstract— Today’s on-chip Analog/Mixed-Signal and RF (A/RF) systems have reached a limit of size and complexity where transistor-level SPICE and FastSPICE simulation approaches cannot deliver a ...
Nature

Analog Circuit Design Using MOS Transistors

Analog circuit design using MOS transistors represents a dynamic and rapidly evolving field that is integral to modern electronics. Exploiting the inherent advantages of MOS technology—such as ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Transistor-Level Verification Returns

Technologies that had become specialist tools are moving back into mainstream usage; shift left is not just about doing things earlier in the flow. A few decades ago, all designers did ...
Design-Reuse

How Verilog-AMS accelerates transistor modeling

Before circuit design can begin on any advanced semiconductor manufacturing process, the electrical behavior of the devices — transistors, diodes, resistors — must be described accurately in so-called ...
EDN

Efficient simulation and validation for mixed-signal SOCs

The IC-design groups tackling complex digital-IC projects often have problems attaining complete system coverage of their designs. But when they add analog content into their designs, attaining ...
Business Wire

Pulsic at DAC 2016: Overcoming the Traditional Bottlenecks in Transistor-Level and Cell-Level Custom Design Flows

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Typically, there are three phases in custom design flows where time to final layout has been a bottleneck: area estimation, layout / simulation cycle and final ...
EDN

Unusual 2N3904 transistor circuit

A Planet Analog article, “ 2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor? ” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old ...
Business Wire

Magma Acquires ACAD, Introduces FineSim Pro Circuit Simulator; Full-Chip, Tri-Mode Circuit Simulator Enables Simulation of Entire Mixed-Signal SoCs at Transistor Level

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2006--Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of semiconductor design software, today announced the availability of FineSim(R) Pro, the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Automated Analog Design Constraint Checking

Analog integrated circuits (ICs) are used to control and regulate conditions such as temperature, speed, sound, and electrical current. In analog ICs, voltage and current vary continuously at ...
Electronic Design

Low-Power Analog Interface Circuit Design Techniques For SoCs

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. The quest for power reduction in electronic circuits is one of the main drivers of circuit design innovation. Recently, ...
Electronic Design

IBIS Modeling (Part 3): How to Achieve a Quality Level 3 IBIS Model via Bench Measurement

The different IBIS quality levels. The steps in the IBIS bench measurement procedure. Process for Quality Level 2a and Level 2b validation. The Input/Output Buffer Information Specification (IBIS) is ...
Purdue University

New transistor design disguises key computer chip hardware from hackers

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit – but not if the transistor “type” is undetectable. Purdue University ...