In Part 1, it was explained that the SPICE simulation tool allows you to analyze the behavior of electronic circuits in precise detail. This installment will analyze the RC time constant, which ...

Said to represent the first commercially available sign-off simulator to provide simulation of one billion transistor memory circuits and provide full-chip capacity for memory, logic and mixed signal ...

A lot of things happen automatically all around us. Even our own breathing and heart rate are automatic. Still, trusting in the automatic can be a mistake sometimes and the following is a simple case ...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is a major reliability concern for integrated circuit (IC) designs. ESD verification is proving to be a significant challenge at advanced nodes, due to growing IC design ...

My, have times changed. I remember when I first started out as a green analog designer right out of college, we would cut rubylith masking film on a large light table representing the different layers ...

Designers today find themselves adding more and more analog and mixed-signal content to their creations. And at nanometer geometries and gigabit speeds, digital circuits begin to look more analog than ...