The other day, a reader was surprised when I claimed that anyone could design and manufacture a custom analog IC for about $3,000. I suppose it does seem hard to believe, but it's true. I've done it a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In an effort to reposition itself against the incumbent in the analog tools world, Mentor Graphics Corp. will announce this week enhancements to its front-to-back tool set for analog ...

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 ...

Why it's essential to combine sign-off accuracy, iterative feedback, and intelligent automation in complex designs.

A recent Semiconductor Intelligence Newsletter reviewed the present lineup of analog semiconductor companies. The newsletter said that one of the current changes involved Renesas Electronics’ ...

Analog integrated circuits (ICs) are used to control and regulate conditions such as temperature, speed, sound, and electrical current. In analog ICs, voltage and current vary continuously at ...

Digital design is hard. But in the right environment, digital circuits are more forgiving than analog. That 3.3V signal coming out of the chip has to drop a lot along the way to not be a logic level ...

We often think of analog computing as a relic of the past, room-sized monstrosities filled with vacuum tubes doing their best to calculate Monte Carlo simulations or orbital velocities. Analog isn’t ...

V-Chip, a subsidiary of Sai Microelectronic, has established a new IC design facility in Penang in September 2025.

In 2022, the overall revenue of the global IC design industry reached US$215.4 billion. Among them, the US IC design sector is the largest in scale, with a 63% market share and revenue of over US$130 ...

Siemens claims the new software allows users to test analog circuitry in integrated circuits up to 100 times faster than traditional methods. Siemens Digital Industries Software recently announced its ...

Analog chip prices are expected to continue rising but at a slower pace while supply-side constraints remain, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. Save my User ID and Password Some ...