Optimizing the integration of DFM and P&R
DFM tools can help shorten design iterations, and improve yield, but they are typically not well-integrated with P&R environments. Back-annotation of DFM changes requires time-consuming…
Power Management
Mentor, AMD, and Microsoft collaborate on EDA in the cloud
Moving some or all of your EDA computing to the cloud enables your company to reduce time-to-market and innovate faster by taking advantage of flexible…
Net common resistance extraction is crucial to design reliability
Accurately extracting and calculating the common resistance of interconnects within analog IC designs is fundamental for evaluating circuit reliability, particularly for noise and voltage drop…
Accelerate time to market with Calibre nmLVS-Recon technology: a new paradigm for circuit verification
One thing is clear…tapeouts are getting harder, and taking longer. As part of a growing suite of innovative early-stage design verification technologies, the Calibre nmLVS…
Linear Current Regulators and High Efficiency LED Drivers: A Contradiction?
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2021Time: 17:00 Central European Time Designers of LED drivers don’t think about linear regulators in the first place, since they have the reputation…
DC-voltage switching challenges: Switching arcs in DC contactors
That DC technology offers efficiency advantages in a variety of fields is undisputed. From high-voltage DC transmission all the way to the installation of DC…
GaN-Based Primary-Side Power Switches Extend the Power Range of InnoSwitch™3 IC Families
A major challenge for discrete GaN solutions is the difficulty in driving the transistors and protecting them. GaN is so much faster than silicon, that…
Choosing Inductors for Energy Efficient Power Applications
In high frequency DC-DC converters for battery-powered applications, improving power supply efficiency is critical and can mean the difference between a device working when it…