Amr Bayoumi, Ph.D.  (Chief Technical Adviser) from New Systems Research spoke with me via Skype on Friday. We had a DAC meeting scheduled but I made a mistake about the meeting location and missed it.
The last company to use a GPU to accelerate SPICE results was Nascentric, and now they’re out of business. They [...]

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Last Monday I had a conference call with Nick Williams of Tanner EDA along with Dan Hammond (VP Marketing). In April I blogged about my install and use of their tools.
This 21 year-old, privately held EDA company offers IC and MEMS tools on both Windows and Linux boxes.
They have a research group that actually designs [...]

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Dermott Lynch of Silicon Frontline spoke with me by phone on Monday to give an update about how their tools extract 3D accurate RC netlists. We first met at Viewlogic in the 90’s when Dermott was at Quad Designs and Viewlogic acquired the Motive static timing tool.
The first thing that impressed me about Silicon Frontline [...]

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Last Friday I had an online meeting with Ashutosh Mauskar, vice president of Magma’s Custom Design Business Unit to learn what was new with the Titan product lineup.
Magma has been very involved with interoperable PDK libraries, or IPL so that IC designers with analog and mixed-signal projects can mix and match tools to implement their [...]

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