tag: mixed signal

Full-Flow Tool Suite For Both Custom Analog And Mixed-Signal Designs
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 26 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

The Tanner EDA AMS IC design flow offers a cohesive, integrated mixed-signal design suite that is ideally suited to IoT and project-based design with its extremely short cycle times and sensitivity to cost. Learn more about the Tanner AMS solution in this white paper. To read more, click here. » read more

Analog Evolves Into Mixed Signal
By Linh Hong - 06 Aug, 2015 - Comments: 0

Predictions about the Internet of Things suggest this may be the new “Killer App,” something the semiconductor industry has long been looking for. Reinforcing the forecasts are television commercials from companies such as Cisco and GE touting the IoT’s impact on everything from jet engines to robots, capturing everyone’s imagination. New categories of products such as smartwatches will... » read more

Analog FastSpice Platform Full-Spectrum Sampled Periodic Noise Analysis
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 29 Jul, 2015 - Comments: 0

Many high-performance analog/mixed-signal ICs include track-and-hold circuits to sample analog signals at one or more discrete timepoints per period. Although track-and-hold circuits are periodic, traditional periodic noise (pnoise) analysis does not apply because it measures the device noise impact integrated over an entire period rather than at instantaneous time points within the target peri... » read more

Dedicated ASIC Design Is Now Cost-Effective
By Mentor, a Siemens Business - 24 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

Current market and technology trends have increased the demand for mixed-signal ASICs. Smaller projects with modest design budgets are viable due to low cost design tools and easy access to flexible, mature IC processes. This is especially compelling for developing mixed-signal ASICs for cost-sensitive sensor applications for the Internet of things (IoT). This paper discusses how costs and risk... » read more

SoC Integration Headaches Grow
By Ed Sperling - 16 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

As the number of IP blocks grows, so do the headaches of integrating the various pieces and making sure they perform as planned within a prescribed power envelope. This is easier said than done, particularly at the most advanced process nodes. There are more blocks, more power domains, more states and use-model dependencies, and there is much more contention for memories. There are physical ... » read more

Analog’s Day Of Reckoning
By Brian Bailey - 16 Jun, 2015 - Comments: 0

The numbers being touted by the semiconductor industry for IoT edge devices are staggering. How they are going to be used, who will make them, or indeed who will make money from them are much less certain. The industry seems to be clear about the content of these devices. A small processor, some flash memory or possibly even some of the new memory technologies that are coming along, a radio ... » read more

Antennas Everywhere
By Ed Sperling - 12 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

A simple rule when it comes to electronics is that while digital circuits scale, antennas do not. That may not sound like a serious problem until you consider that as more devices get connected—cars, watches, industrial equipment—and they add more features that require interaction with the outside world, they need more antennas to make it all work. In the future, there literally will be... » read more

NXP To Buy Freescale For $16.7B
By Ann Mutschler - 02 Mar, 2015 - Comments: 0

By Ann Steffora Mutschler & Ed Sperling Dutch semiconductor giant NXP Semiconductors will buy Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor for $16.7 billion—$11.8 billion in cash, $5.6 billion worth of debts, minus $696 million in cash reserves—creating a combined company with a broad-based product portfolio and projected annual revenue of more than $10 billion. Given the size of the deal... » read more

Power And Noise Integrity For Analog / Mixed-Signal Designs
By Ansys - 05 Nov, 2014 - Comments: 0

The convergence of advance process technology, increasing levels of integration, and higher operating frequencies pose considerable challenge to IP designers whose circuits are required to function in variety of conditions. Full-custom and mixed signal circuit designers ensure that their circuits will function by simulating for various operating conditions (PVT, input stimuli, etc). One key asp... » read more

The Week In Review: Design
By Ed Sperling - 31 Oct, 2014 - Comments: 0

Tools Mentor Graphics rolled out an extension to its PCB design platform that allows for synchronization of processes across multi-board systems. The new tool captures logic and system definitions for boards, cables, backplanes, cable assemblies, sensors and actuators. Cadence introduced a dynamic characterization solution for mixed signal blocks such as PLLs, data converters, high-speed tr... » read more

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