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EDA Solutions and Europractice to host mixed-signal ASIC design training seminars at DATE 2008
EDA Solutions and the Fraunhofer Institute, one of the Europractice Support Centres, will co-host a program of training seminars on Europractice design kits for the latest version of Tanner Tools at DATE 2008. The practical training sessions, to be held on Wednesday 12 March 2008, will give a hands-on introduction to the design kits and Tanner Tools Pro. They are free of charge and open to all those with an interest in analog and mixed-signal ASIC design.
The Design kits for Euopractice’s MPW service have been developed by the Fraunhofer Institute and use the latest version of Tanner EDA’s Windows-based tool suite for analog and mixed-signal IC and MEMS design, Tanner Tools 13.0. Tanner Tools consists of S-Edit for schematic capture, T-Spice for simulation, L-Edit for layout and HiPer Verify for design verification. The latest upgrade adds Verilog-A model support to T-Spice. L-Edit is boosted with better library support, improvements in schematic driven layout (SDL) and a new SDL automatic router. HiPer Verify gets a hierarchical, foundry-compatible netlist extraction tool – HiPer Extract. Finally, Tanner has introduced HiPer PX, a 3D extraction tool for accurate extraction of interconnect and substrate parasitics. These significant upgrades will also be demonstrated on the EDA Solutions stand during the show.
EDA Solutions will also be promoting new additions to the processes available through MOSIS’ MPW service at DATE. MOSIS has added protoype and low volume fabrication access to IBM’s 8WL (130nm) and 6WL (0.25 micron) SiGe BiCMOS technologies, as well as IBM’s latest 65nm and image sensing technology (CIMG) processes.