October 2005[Cover Feature] MEMS Hitting The Curved Ball
Microelectromechanical-system (MEMS) devices are moving into many fields of industry, providing the basis for novel applications of semiconductor technology in fields as diverse as medicine and high-resolution mobile-phone displays. However, designing MEMS devices is not necessarily a straightforward process for these specialists working with the technology. MEMS is an IC-design discipline that currently has little in the way of support from the large EDA tools vendors, which mainly focus...
October 26, 2004[Point of View] Less Can Mean More
The 1990's witnessed the consolidation of the EDA industry with many smaller companies being bought by larger ones and a few market leaders emerging with massive market share and profits to match. Now the situation is very different and the EDA market is undergoing fundamental change driven by three main factors: a more critical appraisal of their needs by EDA buyers, the divergence of analogue and digital designs, and the emergence of budget-constrained chip design start-up...
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