Bristol-based EDA firm
Pulsic has unveiled an analogue and mixed signal version of its
chip layout tools.
Announced today at the
Design Automation Conference in San Diego, Lyric Analog is aimed at
pure analogue and mixed analogue/RF designs.
Part of the
firm’s Physical Design Framework software, Lyric Analog
includes include interactive and semi-automatic transistor
placement, fully automatic and interactive routing and signal
integrity.
"There are an
increasingly large number of designs in the pure analogue and RF
space, where the customers are looking for a more affordable
solution. These designs are relatively small in capacity but need
to consider a distinct set of design criteria, such as matched and
shielded differential signals, resistance and capacitance
constrained paths and current densities,” said Mark Williams,
founder and chief operating officer at Pulsic.
The firm claimed
little attention has yet been given to analogue and RF layout.
"This is the driving
force behind our decision to market the Lyric Analog toolset and
link the front-end with our back-end tools,” said
Williams.
He said the firm will
make the interface to the tool freely available to front end design
tool suppliers.
Also at DAC, Pulsic
announced that it will soon open an office in Silicon Valley. The
decision follows a $1m contract for the firm in the US.
“The US is quite
simply the most important market in which we must be
successful,” explained Williams.