SyEna project to bring automation to analog design Feb 19, 2009
MUNICH, Germany If the researchers involved in the SyEna project are on the right track, analog circuit design is heading for a quantum leap: The project will bring a higher degree of automation to analog design ... The SyEna project (Synthesis-supported design of analog circuits) focuses on automatable design methodologies ... Since the automation, in particular the automatic topology synthesis aimed at in the project, will greatly decrease the number of errors in analog circuitry, the... (EETimes)
Analog tools must catch up Mar 28, 2008
The programs allowed students and engineers to emulate the operation of an analog circuit without having to build it first. Perhaps the most famous of the early simulators was the Simulation Program with Emphasis (Spice), which was developed by the University of California at Berkeley and was made available for widespread use around the beginning of the 1970s. (EETimes)
Analog CAD startup promises automated flow Jul 3, 2007
Wiener said he was an analog circuit designer in the 1980's. "Then I wanted to learn the Cadence tools because I heard the whole industry was using them for ICs, so I took a job at Cadence because I'm a very impatient guy, and I worked there for three years," he said. (EETimes)
Design automation: Synopsys revs analog circuit simulation Apr 3, 2007
(04/02/2007 9:00 AM EDT). Promising a new approach to fast Spice simulation, Synopsys Inc. this week will introduce Discovery AMS 2007, a group of solutions that includes the XA simulation technology option for the NanoSim and HSim fast Spice simulators. (EETimes)
MIT digital circuit to boost devices Feb 17, 2007
MIT improves analog circuit for consumer devices. Comparator-based switched capacitor (CBSC) circuit can be manufactured with smaller size and better power efficiency than traditional analog circuits ... Future models of consumer goods, from digital cameras to MP3 players, could take a leap forward with a new type of analog circuit demonstrated at a trade show Thursday by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). (InfoWorld)
