In recent months there have been significant announcements regarding new Custom IC design tools from Magma Design Automation, Inc., San Jose, CA (http://www.magma-da.com) and Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.synopsys.com). Magma Introduces Titan -- First Platform to Combine Full-Chip, Mixed-Signal, Analysis and Verification for IC Design (Feb 27, 2008) http://investor.magma-da.com/relea...

Added by SHumphreys on 2008-10-30 00:08:56

The following report summary was reported by Electronics Industry Market Research and Knowledge Group on August 2008. Worldwide analog IC revenue in 2008 is expected to perform in-line with the entire semiconductor market, with a year over year percentage change of 6 percent; global semiconductor revenue is expected to increase by 7 percent. Long term, however, these products are outperforming ...

Added by Jesal Mehta on 2008-10-29 14:28:55

The motivation behind eliminating off-chip components has led to recent proliferation of zero-IF receiver architectures. The block diagram for direct down conversion receiver is shown above. In this topology, the entire RF spectrum is down-converted to DC. A high roll-off low-pass filter (LPF) is used to perform the channel selection. This topology eliminates the image problem and thus avoids ...

Added by Jesal Mehta on 2008-10-28 23:03:14