Category: Analog
Analog/Mixed Signal
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Uniting Balkanized Designs
There used to be a nice, clean division: digital chips were verified using the standard suite of digital verification tools like simulation and formal analysis;…
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Sensor Conditioning Options
One of the big challenges of MEMS sensor development is the fact that the raw sensor signals need to be conditioned before being read and…
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A Buttable X-Ray Detector
Most image sensors receive light that has passed through a lens of some sort. This means that a large area can be photographed, for example,…
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Analog Standard Cells
The annual DAC CEDA luncheon this year featured Stanford EE Dept. chair Mark Horowitz in a discussion of analog abstraction. Which has always been a…
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Another Cloud Offering
Analog tool vendor Symica has announced that it will provide cloud access to its tools, starting with SymSpice. They’re using Nefelus, a company that appears…
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Pulsic Adds Guided Flows
Pulsic has been gradually taking their technologies and turning them into flows. We saw that last year with their planning tools; now place and route…
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2 Spicey?
Tanner just announced the integration of Berkeley Design Automation’s (BDA’s) FastSPICE into their flow. You may remember Tanner as a company that does things their…
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High-Sigma Simulations
We’ve noted before that the meaning of “corners” is much less obvious for analog circuits than it is for digital. Solido noted in a recent…