As the title says, i am looking for IC designing software.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Windows 10 and TBD foundry.Question is too vague.
What design aspect? What hardware/operating system? What foundry?
Don't know of anyone doing any real designs on Windows.Windows 10 and TBD foundry.
Schematic entry, transistor layout, design style (cell place and route, full custom, symbolic), performance verification, reliability verification, manufacturability, design rule verification, connectivity verification, etc.What do you mean by design aspect?
Than transistor layout, design style and performance verification.Don't know of anyone doing any real designs on Windows.
Schematic entry, transistor layout, design style (cell place and route, full custom, symbolic), performance verification, reliability verification, manufacturability?
ALL of my IC designs have been done on Windows machines -- all the way back to Win3.1. Up until we started getting into the 0.25 um scale that included all of the LVS/DRC verifications as well as layout and simulation. Now we (i.e., the company I used to work for) uses Linux boxes for those because they have no viable option but to use the decks supplied by the fab (we used to write our own decks based on the design rules, but that's just not viable any more). The schematic design, simulation, and layout are all still done on Windows machines.Don't know of anyone doing any real designs on Windows.
Schematic entry, transistor layout, design style (cell place and route, full custom, symbolic), performance verification, reliability verification, manufacturability, design rule verification, connectivity verification, etc.
The tool we used was ICED by IC Editors. Not a whole lot of features, but it is rock-solid code and was written primarily by a few guys that were primarily interested in the computer graphics part of it. As a result, it provides blazingly fast rendering. It was also a very low cost item with licenses in the $3k range. They eventually got tired of it (after a couple decades of a quite successful business) and so released it (I think as open source, but not sure).Than transistor layout, design style and performance verification.
I worked at a company that spent $100 million plus annually on CAD tools and we still had to do this because no one company had an end-to-end solution. Some tools were developed internally because no commercial capability existed, or they weren't good enough.A big part of my time for a few years was developing programs to translate and tweak the files from one tool to make them easier to work with another tool
From talking to some of our customers (some of whom spent that kind of money on tools for their own IC design teams) I believe it. Prior to going deep-submicron, our annual outlays for all of our tool licenses was in the order of $5k, plus we usually purchased the equivalent of a new seat for each of the tools every couple years, so still under $10k/yr. Yet we did designs in half a year or less that had first-silicon success for some of the big guys that had had teams working for three and four years and still had nothing but failures after fourth silicon.I worked at a company that spent $100 million plus annually on CAD tools and we still had to do this because no one company had an end-to-end solution. Some tools were developed internally because no commercial capability existed, or they weren't good enough.
Personally, I preferred division recognition awards and the cash that went with them.I definitely got a number of thank yous for that. Can't say whether I got any money for it, but I suspect it was a factor in my pay increase that year.
As a small company we didn't have anything like that. It was rare to get any kind of an individual bonus -- that was usually driven by a specific term in a specific project contract and that, in turn, was usually driven by the customer's desires and they seldom think in terms of individual incentives. But the company's goal was to contribute 25% of your annual gross pay into your SEP retirement account (no employee contribution required) if the company made enough profit. It worked out so that the lowest it was was 18% and they hit the 25% about half the time with several ~22% in there (that probably worked out to about the average). So people definitely knew that if the company was profitable, you would benefit from it. This was on top of the company paying 100% of family medical/dental/vision premiums and making maximum contributions to each employee's HSA account. Also, as an LLC with 51% of the stock being owned by about half the employees (and the rest being owned by the president), there wasn't much opportunity for the company to screw employees by playing games with the numbers -- since everyone except the office manager was an engineer, we ALL knew damn well how to do math!Personally, I preferred division recognition awards and the cash that went with them.
You communist. Don't you know you are supposed to work for peanuts while the ones who supplied only the capital make all the money!As a small company we didn't have anything like that. It was rare to get any kind of an individual bonus -- that was usually driven by a specific term in a specific project contract and that, in turn, was usually driven by the customer's desires and they seldom think in terms of individual incentives. But the company's goal was to contribute 25% of your annual gross pay into your SEP retirement account (no employee contribution required) if the company made enough profit. It worked out so that the lowest it was was 18% and they hit the 25% about half the time with several ~22% in there (that probably worked out to about the average). So people definitely knew that if the company was profitable, you would benefit from it. This was on top of the company paying 100% of family medical/dental/vision premiums and making maximum contributions to each employee's HSA account. Also, as an LLC with 51% of the stock being owned by about half the employees (and the rest being owned by the president), there wasn't much opportunity for the company to screw employees by playing games with the numbers -- since everyone except the office manager was an engineer, we ALL knew damn well how to do math!
I had absolutely NO problem with the money that the president, who supplied all the capital, made.You communist. Don't you know you are supposed to work for peanuts while the ones who supplied only the capital make all the money!
Bob
I am having a trouble downloading the software. Is there any good guide how to download it, because the one on the site isnt good.Hello,
If you want to dive into VLSI design software, have a look at Static Free Software:
http://www.staticfreesoft.com/
Bertus
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