There has been vast progress over the last 30 years or so in digital layout automation, making it possible to develop complex digital ICs relatively quickly. However, for analog layout, techniques are ...

Significant designs, notably system-on-chip (SoC), contain custom, mixed-signal, and analog components that require schematic capture, simulation, and physical-layout design automation in addition to ...

The Calibre DesignEnhancer software, which Siemens EDA unveiled at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in July 2023, has been incorporated into a process design kit (PDK) of Samsung Foundry. The ...

The technology aims for significant reduction of microchip’s layout design cycle; particularly, in advanced nanometer ranges, 7nm and below, enabling faster chip’s design and manufacturing cycle SAN ...

With an eye on growing its product line beyond its existing outdoor surveying and layout robot, San Francisco-based startup Civ Robotics announced July 1 that it has secured $7.5 million in Series A ...

As the scaling of silicon technology proceeds, via resistance is becoming a dominant factor in integrated circuit (IC) yield, performance, and reliability. At advanced nodes, interconnects and via ...

The AI server boom is pushing manufacturers to transform how they design and build high-performance hardware systems. Spearheading this shift are advancements in virtual simulation, which bridge the ...

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 ...

The ability to specify, verify, and order configurable power supplies online and in real time is made possible with the introduction of VCAD (Vicor Configurable Automated Design), an automated design ...

Structural materials can be produced in novel shapes that were previously impractical with the rise of modern tools such as 3D printers. Its adaptability can be used by emerging generative design ...