August 14, 2012 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced availability of the critically acclaimed and much anticipated comprehensive design methodology book for chip designers and CAD engineers that focuses on current and future advanced mixed-signal design challenges and solutions. The "Mixed-Signal Methodology Guide" provides an overview of the design, verification and implementation methodologies required for advanced mixed-signal designs. The book brings together top mixed-signal design experts from across the industry — including authors from Boeing, Cadence, ClioSoft and Qualcomm — to address the complex problems facing the mixed-signal design community.

This wide-ranging compendium examines in depth such topics as AMS behavioral modeling, mixed-signal metric-driven verification, concurrent mixed-signal physical implementation, analog scaling at advanced nodes, IC package integration and data management for mixed-signal designs.

The volume is intended for design teams looking for improvements in their mixed-signal design flows. For managers, it provides an overview of modern mixed-signal methodologies to make it easier to understand and plan for investment in design capabilities and skills. The guide also helps analog and digital designers value the domains and disciplines of one another and learn about more efficient ways to collaborate, which is critical for the overall success of mixed-signal projects.

"The Mixed-Signal Methodology Guide is an outstanding resource for both new and experienced circuit designers to understand the many facets of mixed-signal design and verification," said Dr. Kush Gulati, General Manager for Advanced IP Development at Maxim Integrated Products and co-founder of Cambridge Analog Technologies. "The many real-world examples provided in this book, along with the provided example code, make this book a must-read for anyone involved in the day-to-day design of mixed-signal systems."

"Modern mixed-signal design require new methodologies to improve productivity, reduce design time and achieve silicon success," said Hao Fang, Engineering Director at LSI. "The Mixed-Signal Methodology Guide is a thorough reference book on advanced verification and implementation methodologies. It will be particularly useful to mixed-signal verification engineers for its coverage of analog behavioral modeling, and assertion and metric driven verification methodology as applied to analog and mixed-signal design."

Availability

The 408-page "Mixed-Signal Methodology Guide," featuring a foreword by industry pioneer Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, is available now at Lulu.com and will be available soon at Amazon.com. More details about the book and ordering information is available on the Cadence website.

Posted by: John Miklosz