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 ...
While the basic simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (SPICE) hasn't changed over the past 40 years, the simulation models for metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs ...
Nothing is worse for a design team than a chip that fails to work in the bringup lab. Electrical problems are historically a major cause of such failures. Power leaks, power-ground DC paths, missing ...
Guest columnist Hany Elhak, analogue product marketing manager at Synopsys, believes that when carrying out SPICE simulation, accurate should not mean sluggishWhen SPICE simulation was invented at UC ...