Design-Reuse

The Challenges and Benefits of Analog/Mixed-Signal and RF System Verification above the Transistor Level

Abstract— Today’s on-chip Analog/Mixed-Signal and RF (A/RF) systems have reached a limit of size and complexity where transistor-level SPICE and FastSPICE simulation approaches cannot deliver a ...
EDN

Transistor Circuits Design

Transistors are inevitable parts of Electronic circuits. The success of a circuit design lies in the selection of proper transistor type and calculation of voltage and current flowing through it. A ...
Nature

Analog Circuit Design Using MOS Transistors

Analog circuit design using MOS transistors represents a dynamic and rapidly evolving field that is integral to modern electronics. Exploiting the inherent advantages of MOS technology—such as ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Transistor-Level Verification Returns

Technologies that had become specialist tools are moving back into mainstream usage; shift left is not just about doing things earlier in the flow. A few decades ago, all designers did ...
Elektor Magazine

Digital Logic Design: An Introduction

From simple transistors to complex systems, this article explains the building blocks of digital logic design. Learn how ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Automated Analog Design Constraint Checking

Analog integrated circuits (ICs) are used to control and regulate conditions such as temperature, speed, sound, and electrical current. In analog ICs, voltage and current vary continuously at ...
Design-Reuse

How Verilog-AMS accelerates transistor modeling

Before circuit design can begin on any advanced semiconductor manufacturing process, the electrical behavior of the devices — transistors, diodes, resistors — must be described accurately in so-called ...
EDN

Facing the challenges in analog design

Analog design has always been a more involved process than digital design. It also takes longer to master, as evidenced by the two to three years needed for a digital designer to gain command of the ...
Business Wire

Magma Acquires ACAD, Introduces FineSim Pro Circuit Simulator; Full-Chip, Tri-Mode Circuit Simulator Enables Simulation of Entire Mixed-Signal SoCs at Transistor Level

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2006--Magma(R) Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq:LAVA), a provider of semiconductor design software, today announced the availability of FineSim(R) Pro, the ...
Electronic Design

IBIS Modeling (Part 3): How to Achieve a Quality Level 3 IBIS Model via Bench Measurement

The different IBIS quality levels. The steps in the IBIS bench measurement procedure. Process for Quality Level 2a and Level 2b validation. The Input/Output Buffer Information Specification (IBIS) is ...
Purdue University

New transistor design disguises key computer chip hardware from hackers

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit – but not if the transistor “type” is undetectable. Purdue University ...
Electronic Design

Identifying transistor-level yield limiters in the FinFET era

As the digital semiconductor manufacturing process moves into the FinFET era, more and more front-end-of-line (FEOL) defects are observed due to extremely small feature size and complex manufacturing ...