Title :
Near-Term Industrial Perspective of Analog CAD
Author :
Labrecque, Christopher
Author_Institution :
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Aided Design, 2006. ICCAD '06. IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-59593-389-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-3152
DOI :
10.1109/ICCAD.2006.320156
