San Jose, Calif., Nov. 10 – The unique aspects of analog design and how to effectively use a mixture of tools and methodologies were highlighted at a seminar hosted by Tanner EDA. Covering analog and ...

My IC designer buddy Don Sauer copied me on an email he sent to a fellow asking about the art and practice of IC design. Like The Unwritten Rules of Engineering, an ASME book from the 1940s, Don ...

Along the path from specification to silicon, the design of analog/mixed-signal chips comprises a variety of challenges. They are of technological, methodological, organizational, communicational, and ...

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) poses a critical challenge in the design of analogue integrated circuits, where the growing density of components and higher operating frequencies lead to increased ...

Cadence is ushering in “the future for custom analog design” with Virtuoso Studio. The San Jose, California-based company said the new platform takes care of many of the challenges its customers face ...

Digital circuit design is largely automated today, but most analog components still are designed manually. This may change soon. As analog design grows increasingly complex and error-prone, design ...

MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today introduced the Cadence ® Legato™ Reliability Solution, the industry’s first software product that meets the challenges of ...

Anadigm's AN221E04 field-programmable analog array (FPAA) features four configurable I/O cells and an integrated 8-bit analog-to-digital converter. With the addition of configurable I/O, a single FPAA ...

Digital design is hard. But in the right environment, digital circuits are more forgiving than analog. That 3.3V signal coming out of the chip has to drop a lot along the way to not be a logic level ...