• DocumentCode
    1651673
  • Title

    Near-Term Industrial Perspective of Analog CAD

  • Author

    Labrecque, Christopher

  • Author_Institution
    Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    456
  • Lastpage
    457
  • Abstract
    Analog and mixed-signal CAD looks like a nice success story: there´s been significant research in building design automation tools since the late 80´s, and commercial tools have been on the market for several years now. However, the majority of AMS (analog/mixed-signal) designers still use manual design only, focused around the SPICE simulator. So why are designers not or slowly adopting these CAD tools? This paper will present a reality check on the current state of the art of AMS design tools for industrial usage
  • Keywords
    circuit CAD; integrated circuit design; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; analog CAD; design automation; mixed-signal CAD; Algorithm design and analysis; Analog circuits; Analytical models; Buildings; Circuit analysis; Circuit simulation; Design automation; Equations; Hardware design languages; SPICE; Analog; computer-aided design; integrated circuits; mixed-signal;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer-Aided Design, 2006. ICCAD '06. IEEE/ACM International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • ISSN
    1092-3152
  • Print_ISBN
    1-59593-389-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1092-3152
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCAD.2006.320156
  • Filename
    4110213