Hi there, I got a design job in IC power electronics. I am just wandering what kind of EAD tools those big companies, such as Maxim and linear, are using? I am a student at school. We are using Cadence as our IC design tool. Is this the same case in industry? Thanks.
Sandeep
In general, yes. Cadence is *the* industry standard for IC design. However, it is very, very expensive, like $50k a seat, per year. Linear Tech use err.. LTSpice...
A runner up is Mentor.
An alternative that has quite a lot of all the main features required in ic design, is orders of magnitude cheaper in price, e.g. mosfet binning, worst case analysis is...err SuperSpice:-)
Kevin Aylward snipped-for-privacy@anasoft.co.uk
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