Category: commercial

  • EDA software and the CentOS 7 end of life

    Electronic design automation (EDA) vendors develop software for the design of semiconductor chips and computer hardware. Being long running, distributed applications, customers will often use a grid of Linux servers to run EDA software. Information technology (IT) departments are responsible for keeping these servers running, with minimal downtime. Due to its free cost, and widespread…

  • Sequoia Releases a New 3D Capacitance Extraction Tool

    Sequoia Design Systems has released a new 3D Capacitance Extraction Tool for image sensors. CellCap3D is SEQUOIA’s tool for fully integrated accurate gds-to-spice calculation of capacitance matrices for image sensor cells, memory cells and similar. CellCap3D includes mesh generation, numerical solvers and graphical interfaces for viewing the 3D cell model, connected nets, capmatrix values and…

  • TCAD Central

    One of the websites I maintain is TCAD Central, located at https://tcadcentral.com.  One of the most useful is a listing of open source and proprietary TCAD simulation tools.  Please check it out.