I recently evaluated the Tanner EDA tools on my Windows Vista laptop to get a better feel for their capabilities.
My expectation was that I could simply download the software and start evaluating it however it was more complex than that. I filled out a request form then received a pleasant phone call from a Tanner [...]

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Cadence dominates the custom IC layout market and CiraNova gets a lot of attention about automating analog layout, but I’m here to tell you about an interesting company called Micro Magic that is offering a free IC layout viewer called MAX-View.
Their demo is outrageous because they can load, pan, zoom and edit a design with [...]

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