Handcrafted analog gets automated assist: EDA tools address simulation, verfication, and layout for mixed-signal designs

摘要

Analog simulators and design-capture tools have a venerable history in the EDA market, having long added some Spice to their digital-simulation counterparts. When it comes to converting simulations to sine waves and silicon, however, analog-EDA tools fall short of what has been possible in the digital domain. That scenario is beginning to change. Tools are emerging from traditional digital-EDA providers that support the fabrication of analog functions in nanometer-geometry digital processes. Tn addition, foundry-specific tool kits are easing the implementation of analog, RF, and high-voltage functions in analog processes.