Next Generation Analog and Mixed Signal Design Forum

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Abstract:

Next Generation Analog Mixed Signal Design System
Mr. Jim Solomon

80% of SoC design starts now contain analog and mixed signal (AMS) components. This increase in AMS importance, coupled with the short time-to-market dictated by today’s consumer electronics, is putting pressure on existing design tools and methodologies. Mr. Solomon is the founder of Cadence Design Systems and has driven the development of AMS design tools that are in use by most analog design teams. He will discuss the emerging challenges seen in today’s SoC designs, and share his viewpoint on the most important tools and flows needed for a next generation AMS design system.

Universal PCell Technology
Mr. Ed Petrus

Parameterized Cells (PCells) are the building blocks of analog and mixed signal design implementation. PyCell Studio is a next generation PCell technology that enables the creation of complex PCells that support conditional rules in 90nm and below processes. This talk will cover the recent advancement in technology to support advanced PCell authoring.


Advanced Device Level Placement Technology
Dr. Lindor Henrickson

Analog and mixed signal layout development and migration for integrated SoC’s has always presented many challenges; however, recently, given the dramatic increases in design-rule complexity and mask costs, these challenges have become extreme. This is additionally coupled with ever increasing market pressure on IP developers to improve design turnaround and migration time. In these scenarios, computational technology must come to the fore and be leveraged to develop agile, flexible, and reliable automated layout methodologies. In this presentation, we will examine some of the challenges in advanced automated custom device-level layout generation and explore various approaches and solutions to the problem.

Advanced Analog Routing Technology
Mr. Kevin Steptoe

The talk will describe an advanced approach to the automation of routing particularly appropriate for the layout of analog, mixed signal and custom digital designs. The paper contrasts gridded (switchbox) and gridless (shape based) routing approaches for this application. The theme is developed to highlight the requirements of a complete routing system in which the balance between user interactivity and push button automation is achieved and crucially, in which comprehensive (electrical and physical) hierarchical constraints drive the result, providing the communication between designer intent in the front end and implementation in the back end.

舉辦時間: 96年2月6日 13:30-16:00
舉辦地點: 工業技術研究院 中興院區 9 館010會議室
主辦單位: 台灣SoC推動聯盟 / 工研院系統晶片科技中心
議程主席: 工研院系統晶片科技中心 張志偉副主任
http://www.taiwansoc.org/admin/s ... op/workshop_155.htm

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全球最大IC設計自動化工具廠益華創辦人Jim Solomon昨天首度來台，今天將發表專題演講。記者陳碧珠╱攝影

全球最大IC設計自動化（EDA）公司益華電腦（Cadence）的創辦人之一Jim Solomon昨（5）日首度來台，今天將在新竹工研院演講，並將造訪台積電與聯電。

在SOC（單晶片）發展下，台灣IC設計業者目前在先進製程上，始終與美國有一個世代以上的差距。Solomon昨天表示，消費性電子產品日新月異，類比元件越來越重要，台灣提供含類比的混合訊號IC設計產值已占全球三分之一，但台灣類比IC經驗遠不如美國，若能透過類比自動化工具，可加速台灣業者技術升級，並將產品快速導入市場，進一步提高全球市場占有率。

年過70的Solomon自離開益華電腦後，先後在美國矽谷創辦六家公司，其中Ciranova為自動化工具公司，提供IC設計客戶在類比、混合訊號元件上的技術。Ciranova大股東之一的AsiaTech，是由前聯電價格中心副總方頌人與友人合資創辦的。