I was out to dinner in Montreal a few weeks ago. As I walked down the four flights of dark, narrow stairs from the restaurant to the street, I stumbled on the last step and fell on my hands and knees.

Astrus, a Canada-based startup focusing on analog IC design automation, is aspiring to revolutionize the global chip design industry by leveraging recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI).

Analog designers tend to stick with a component that they have used successfully, even if it’s a few years old and could easily be replaced.

Skilled engineers remain the driving force for innovation in chips. But it’s no secret that electronic design automation (EDA) companies are folding AI into more of their offerings to speed up design ...

In our world based on electronics, the design of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) ICs is still mainly done manually. While digital design benefits from complete synthesis flows, analog lags far behind in ...

Industry’s leading platform for creating differentiated custom silicon delivers unmatched productivity benefits with new generative AI technology Virtuoso Studio empowers designers to push ...

MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today introduced the Cadence ® Legato™ Reliability Solution, the industry’s first software product that meets the challenges of ...

Along the path from specification to silicon, the design of analog/mixed-signal chips comprises a variety of challenges. They are of technological, methodological, organizational, communicational, and ...

Cadence is ushering in “the future for custom analog design” with Virtuoso Studio. The San Jose, California-based company said the new platform takes care of many of the challenges its customers face ...

An engineer and inventor, Dr. Tejasvi Das spent 15 years in the semiconductor industry before joining RIT as an Associate Professor in 2023. He has been granted over 180 US and International patents ...

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) poses a critical challenge in the design of analogue integrated circuits, where the growing density of components and higher operating frequencies lead to increased ...

Market sources say analog chip design leader Texas Instruments (TI) is preparing to raise prices on a range of semiconductor products starting in April 2026. The scale of the increases across ...