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Mixed Signal ASIC Design

Integrated Circuit Design has historically been an expensive, time consuming, andrisky undertaking accessible only to organizations with large budgets, high volume requirements and able to tolerate long and unpredictable development cycles; Until now….. Introducing Mixed Signal ASICs by Triad Semiconductor Triad Semiconductor (TRIAD) delivers mixed signal IC solutions using a radically different approach that allows you to integrate analog [Read more...]

Soft IP for the Analog ASIC – Impossible Yet True

Via-configurable array (VCA) technology enables the rapid development and low cost design of feature-rich mixed-signal ASICs that integrate sophisticated analog IP blocks without the pain and risk of full-custom design. To IP or Not to IP Although all real engineers would like to create all of their designs from scratch, that just is not practical [Read more...]

Are Digital Structured ASICs Dead?

The Digital Structured ASIC is dead. LSI has pulled the plug. Synplicity is winding down their entire structured ASIC line. Articles appear, almost daily, waxing nostalgic about the rise and fall of an industry. Yet, there is a new approach to using a structured (or platform, or array) approach to ASIC design. Mixed signal via-configured [Read more...]

Via Configurable ASICs for Analog and Mixed Signal Applications

Introduction As any ASIC designer knows all to well, the pressure is relentless to develop larger chips with more functions (including analog) and to deliver in record time. Fabs keep making smaller geometry processes which allows for more transistors per unit area, but this does not make the design easier. And then there is the [Read more...]