EDN

Hot iPad app: iCircuit (electronic circuit editor and simulator)

My old chum Alvin (who co-authored Bebop BYTES Back and How Computers Do Math with me) just emailed me to say that he is really impressed with an iPad app called iCircuit. In his own words: iCircuit ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Cloud-Ready Circuit Simulation Accelerates SoC Verification

Driven by the explosion of big data and expanding applications, chip design complexity is increasing. Applications such as high-performance computing (HPC), the Internet of Things (IoT), automotive, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Accelerating Circuit Simulation 10x With GPUs

Many aspects of semiconductor design and verification have an ever-growing “need for speed” that has outpaced the performance improvements available by running on CPUs. Electronic design automation ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between SPICE and FastSPICE Circuit Simulators?

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Dr. Lianfeng Yang, Vice President of Marketing, ProPlus Design Solutions Circuit simulators are among the most ...
EDN

Improve accuracy of electrical system thermal simulation with full-circuit 3D modeling

Typical 3D thermal simulation of electronics components assumes that all the power consumption the data sheets define is dissipated in the semiconductor. In the case of high current power modules, ...