Category: Analog
Analog/Mixed Signal
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Power Bank SoCs
I ask a lot of stupid questions because usually they’re not stupid. Occasionally one is. OK, maybe not outright stupid, but I certainly felt out…
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SPICE-ing It Up
SPICE is pretty fundamental to circuit design. That’s obvious for cell and custom designers; for you digital folks, you get exempted only because a cell…
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Are Diamonds the Coolest?
It’s not every day you get to hold a diamond whose size is on the order of inches (or cm, for those of you that…
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Could Mechanical Replace Electrical?
The MEMS Industry Group sponsored a webinar recently with a focus on switches. Literally; mechanical switches. Just really tiny ones made of a beam that…
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Converging by Construction
Chip design has always consisted of a series of loops. Do something, check the effects, fix things, check again, and hopefully converge on a solution.…
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Another New Analog Player
On the heels of BDA’s characterization tool, and consistent with increased activity in the analog space, yet another analog tool company is starting up: G-Analog.…
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Characterization vs. Corners
Once you’ve got a circuit that you think is what you want, you have to make sure it works across the entire range of conditions…
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Concurrent Sign-off Analysis
I’m getting a sense that we’re back into the small-company-friendly phase of the EDA company cycle. A number of newcomers (which means they’ve been around…
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Parallel Accurate SPICE
SPICE has got to be one of the oldest tools still being used by designers. So you might expect it to be a mature market,…
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20 to 14: Less Bad Than You Thought?
Conventional wisdom should suggest the following points: Each new process node affects all layers Moving to FinFETs will be a big change for designers Turns…