Silvaco Presents at 13th International MOS-AK Virtual Workshop, Dec. 10 – 11

The 13th International MOS-AK Workshop will be hosted virtually on December 10 and 11, 2020, and Silvaco R&D will be presenting. The MOS-AK Workshop aims to strengthen a network and discussion forum among experts in the field, enhance open information exchange related to compact/SPICE modeling and Verilog-A standardization, bring academic and industrial experts in the compact modeling field together, as well as obtain feedback from technology developers, circuit designers, and CAD/EDA tool developers and vendors.

Customer Interview: Why I Rely on SmartSpice

Martin Mallinson is an experienced analog circuit designer with multiple patents. Over his 40-year career, his audio designs have been used in millions of smartphones.  Martin spoke with Graham Bell about why SmartSpice is different from other analog simulators and how he relies on its interactivity, speed, and precision for his analog design work.

Customer Case Study: Using SmartSpice to Deliver Next-Generation, Low Power Memory Systems

At our SURGE Santa Clara event in October, Cameron Fisher, CEO of Mobile Semiconductor described their experience in adopting SmartSpice as their characterization engine for creating the database for their Trailblaze™ memory compiler software. Below is a summary of his talk.

SmartSpice Does It Smart

By this definition, any SPICE simulator qualifies as a smart design tool, but what about versatility? SmartSpice has had over 30 years of product development and is the Swiss Army knife of circuit simulators, with wide applicability to different CAD design flows.

Machine Learning in Silvaco EDA Software

In the following video, Dr. Firas Mohamed, VP & GM, Machine Learning & Flow Optimization Division and GM, Silvaco France talks with Graham Bell about Machine Learning technologies deployed in Silvaco EDA tools at the SEMICON West 2019, July 9 - 11 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. A transcript of the video is also below.

5nm Success – Silicon Creations CEO Video Interview at DAC 2019

In the following video, I interview Silvaco customer Randy Caplan of Silicon Creations from the show floor at DAC 2019, in Las Vegas, about the latest trends and challenges for nanometer IC design success. He talks about using a suite of Silvaco design tools down to the latest 5 nm silicon process nodes. A full ranscript of the conversation is below, as well.

Six-Sigma Analysis of Digital Standard Cells

library of digital standard cells implements both Boolean logic and sequential storage functions. These foundation IPs are used extensively and repeatedly within application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), field programmable arrays (FPGAs), microprocessors and system-on-chip devices (SOCs).

SPICE Model Generation by Machine Learning

by Thomas Blaesi

It was 1988 when I got into SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) while I was characterizing a 1.5 μm Standard cell library developed by students at my Alma-Mata Furtwangen University in Germany. My professor Dr. Nielinger was not only my advisor he also wrote the first SPICE bible in German language. At that time SPICE simulation was already established as the “golden” Simulator for circuit design for over a decade - and remains so to this day.