Analog vendor study reveals designer priorities Oct 12, 2009
Analog vendors are dismissed as dinosaurs by analysts who don't really understand analog's inherent roles, and analog circuit designers are threatened with "digital displacement" by engineers who should know better. But in fact the analog space offers an amazing diversity of functions, applications, vendors and users. (EETimes)
127th AES Convention Master Classes - Diversity Personified Aug 26, 2009
Analog Circuit Emulation for Plug-in Design: Dr. David Berners and Jonathan Abel, of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and Universal Audio, are two of the foremost experts in digital modeling and the software emulation of classic analog audio circuitry. They will share insights, approaches, and techniques engaged in their creation of some of the production community's most widely used analog emulation algorithms. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
News from DAC: CEOs debate EDA's fair share Jul 29, 2009
Titan is billed as the first truly unified, open platform that embeds digital standard-cell design into the analog circuit design flow, according to Magma. The new release of the Titan mixed-signal design platform will be available next month, Magma said. (EETimes)
SyEna project to bring automation to analog design Feb 19, 2009
MUNICH, Germany If the researchers involved in the SyEna project are on the right track, analog circuit design is heading for a quantum leap: The project will bring a higher degree of automation to analog design ... The SyEna project (Synthesis-supported design of analog circuits) focuses on automatable design methodologies ... Since the automation, in particular the automatic topology synthesis aimed at in the project, will greatly decrease the number of errors in analog circuitry, the... (EETimes)
