Who
Jeff Jussel
What
Challenge: how to re-use analog IP?
Summary

Magma lets you use or build process portable Analog blocks using a Matlab syntax language, plus you can optimize your analog design based on constraints. The old method of optimization is based on circuit simulation, this new technique is based on a modeling language and analog optimizer.
Notes
- At 65 nm [...]

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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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On Tuesday I met with Richard Shi, Ph.D.,Chairman and CTO of Orora Design Technologies.
This company offered the 1st – optimizer and analog synthesis tool.
They showed me three tools for use by analog design engineers.
Arana – Behavioral model generator (dial in the percentage accuracy needed)
-          Bottom up generator (RTL extractor, algebraic reduction)
-          Top down generator (like [...]

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I met with Pat Drennan – CTO on Tuesday to learn more about Solido Design Automation. Pat is an ex Motorola/Freescale guy who really likes statistics and silicon device physics.
For years now the foundries provided models for Monte Carlo analysis however full Monte Carlo runs just take too much circuit simulation time to be practical [...]

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Mephisto

Kenneth Francken, CEO at Mephisto explained how his tools will help make analog designers more efficient by helping them to do analog IP verification, IP migration and IP creation. This Belgium-based start-up kind of competes with what the Neolinear tools at Cadence provide but then adds a more sophisticated test bench composer and automated documentation [...]

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