Electronic Design

Dirt Cheap ASIC Design for Dummies (Part 2): Tools and PDK Installation

A full set of Open-Source tools is available to enable digital, analog, and mixed-signal ASIC design from schematic capture through tapeout. Tools installation is simply a matter of installing a VM ...
Electronic Design

Analog ASIC Course Tapes Out Real Silicon

Electronic Design’s Andy Turudic talks with Georgia Tech’s Shaolan Li about a hands-on course centered on silicon design that takes you from schematic through tapeout. In this episode of Inside ...
Design-Reuse

Structured ASIC Based SoC Design

Complex System-on-Chip (SoC) designs are fast becoming commonplace in today’s applications. Hardware designers must overcome many complex and challenging issues regarding cost, time-to-market (TTM), ...
EDN

An FPGA-to-ASIC case study for refining smart meter design

Many embedded system designs are first implemented using FPGAs. This may be for quicker prototyping or to provide a platform for software development. Sometimes, the FPGAs will remain in the design ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA Prototyping to Structured ASIC Production to Reduce Cost, Risk & TTM

The capacity and performance requirements of today’s complex digital systems often require the use of high-end Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) or standard cell Application Specific Integrated ...