tag: analog mixed signal

Untrusted Analog Components Add Risks For Critical Infrastructure
By Anne Meixner - 07 Apr, 2026 - Comments: 0

Key Takeaways New certificate-based solutions are necessary within fabs and packaging houses to deliver trusted semiconductors. Physical IDs bind the device to the certificate, but it needs to be immutable and unclonable. Extrinsic IDs are required for analog, mixed-signal, sensor ICs as well as discrete components. Rising concern over the source and destination of chips, an... » read more

Causal Inference for AMS Design (U. of Florida)
By Technical Paper Link - 31 Mar, 2026 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper, "Causal AI For AMS Circuit Design: Interpretable Parameter Effects Analysis," was published by the University of Florida. Abstract "Analog-mixed-signal (AMS) circuits are highly non-linear and operate on continuous real-world signals, making them far more difficult to model with data-driven AI than digital blocks. To close the gap between structured design data (dev... » read more

LLM-Based AI Agent That Automates The Transistor Sizing Process (Univ. of Edinburgh)
By Technical Paper Link - 10 Oct, 2025 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "EEsizer: LLM-Based AI Agent for Sizing of Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit" was published by researchers at The University of Edinburgh. Abstract "The design of Analog and Mixed-Signal (AMS) integrated circuits (ICs) often involves significant manual effort, especially during the transistor sizing process. While Machine Learning techniques in Electronic Design A... » read more

Reap Rewards With Shift-Left Pattern Matching For Custom And AMS Designs
By John Muirhead - 24 Apr, 2025 - Comments: 0

To keep up with the growing complexities of IC design, major semiconductor companies are adopting shift-left strategies. For verification, this means pulling much of the work into the physical design stage. By moving critical checks earlier in the design cycle, you can identify and resolve issues before they escalate, streamlining the overall development process. The Calibre tools have been ... » read more

Managing Complexity And A Left Shift: Reconfigurable Mixed-Signal Circuits For Complex Integrated Systems
By Bjorn Zeugmann - 08 Aug, 2024 - Comments: 0

By Björn Zeugmann and Benjamin Prautsch The chip market is growing worldwide; it’s projected to nearly double by 2030 to over one trillion dollars. Most of this market is made up of digital functions in the form of logic, microprocessors, and memory. Although analog ICs account for only around 15% of the total, they are key components for overall systems and are therefore almost always pr... » read more

Automatic Layout Generator Targeting Region-based Layouts for Advanced FinFET-Based Full-Custom Circuits (UT Austin/NVIDIA)
By Technical Paper Link - 15 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "AutoCRAFT: Layout Automation for Custom Circuits in Advanced FinFET Technologies" was published by researchers at UT Austin and NVIDIA. "This paper presents AutoCRAFT, an automatic layout generator targeting region-based layouts for advanced FinFET-based full-custom circuits. AutoCRAFT uses specialized place-and-route (P&R) algorithms to handle various design cons... » read more

Holistic FMEDA-Driven Safety Design And Verification For Analog, Digital, And Mixed-Signal Design
By Cadence - 21 Dec, 2021 - Comments: 0

With state-of-the-art electronics propelling the automotive industry into the future, automotive OEMs require safety-certified semiconductors. The integration of these advanced technologies into cars drives a need for component suppliers to assess and audit the risk of the technologies they want to deploy. At the same time, safety requirements are constantly evolving and becoming more stringent... » read more

Re-Architecting SerDes
By Brian Bailey - 10 Dec, 2020 - Comments: 0

Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) circuits have been helping semiconductors move data around for years, but new process technologies are forcing it to adapt and change in unexpected ways. Traditionally implemented as an analog circuit, SerDes technology has been difficult to scale, while low voltages, variation, and noise are making it more difficult to yield sufficiently. So to remain releva... » read more

From Constraints to Tape-Out: Towards a Continuous AMS Design Flow
By Fraunhofer IIS/EAS - 10 Oct, 2019 - Comments: 0

Author(s): Krinke, Andreas; Horst, Tilman; Gläser, Georg; Grabmann, Martin; Markus, Tobias; Prautsch, Benjamin; Hatnik, Uwe; Lienig, Jens The effort in designing analog/mixed-signal (AMS) integrated circuits is characterized by the largely manual work involved in the design of analog cells and their integration into the overall circuit. This inequality in effort between analog and digital... » read more

Week In Review: Design, Low Power
By Jesse Allen - 26 Apr, 2019 - Comments: 0

A new working group has been proposed by Accellera to focus on the standardization of analog/mixed signal extensions (AMS) for the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) standard. “Our ambition is to apply UVM for both digital and analog/mixed-signal verification,” said Martin Barnasconi, Accellera Technical Committee Chair. “The UVM-AMS PWG will assess the benefits of creating analog a... » read more

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