Custom IC design is an integral part of competitiveness in the design of system-on-chip products. Even if the custom part of the chip is only 30 percent of the die, that 30 percent often accounts for ...

Market requirements are driving custom and analog/ mixed-signal (AMS) IC providers to develop ICs with ever-increasing complexity and performance. Current custom ICs are outgrowing the capabilities of ...

In today’s world of highly sophisticated Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, you can complete many complex tasks using just a few commands and the switches associated with them. However, certain ...

In Part 1, we looked at the problems of manual routing in complex, mixed signal ICs. We then looked at some of the advantages of a constraint-based router. Continuing the discussion of the ...