Feb 24, 2016

LibreCAD: Call for Your POTM Vote

The vote for April 2016 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until March 15, 2016 12:00 UTC. Here is one of the candidates:
LibreCAD is a fully comprehensive 2D CAD application that you can download and install for free. LibreCAD is an Open Source community-driven project: development is open to new talent and new ideas, and our software is tested and used daily by a large and devoted user community; you, too, can get involved and influence its future development. LibreCAD has GPLv2 public license – you can use it, customize it, hack it and copy it with free user support and developer support from our active worldwide community and our experienced developer team. There is a large base of satisfied LibreCAD users worldwide, and it is available in more than 20 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, etc. 

Feb 22, 2016

Alliance: FOSS VLSI/CAD System



Alliance is a complete set of free cad tools and portable libraries for VLSI design. It includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, and automatic place and route tools. A complete set of portable CMOS libraries is provided. Alliance is the result of a twelve year effort spent at SoC department of LIP6 laboratory of the Pierre & Marie Curie University (Paris VI, France). Alliance has been used for research projects such as the 875 000 transistors StaCS superscalar microprocessor and 400 000 transistors IEEE Gigabit HSL Router.

Alliance VLSI CAD System is free software. Binaries, source code and cells libraries are freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You are welcome to use the software package even for commercial designs without any fee. You are kindly requested to mention: "Designed with Alliance © LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie".

ICs Designed with Alliance
  • Smartlabs/Smarthome designed a complete circuit in the XFAB XH035 technology (2014).
  • Tokai University (Shimizu Lab) designed the SNX, a 16 bits processor in the ROHM 0.18µm (2010).
Useful Links

Feb 19, 2016

[video] How to Model RF Passive Devices: Spiral Inductors

How to Model RF Passive Devices: Spiral Inductors

With increasing operating frequencies, the modeling of passive components becomes increasingly important, and there exist no ready-to-use models for inductors, resistors, capacitors etc. Based on the other video of this fundamental device modeling series, (How to Model RF Capacitors and Resistors), this video extends the topic to modeling RF Spiral Inductors. It explains how to develop a Spice model based on verified S-Parameter measurements. Applying an easy to follow, step by step procedure, the video walks you through the entire modeling flow for on-wafer inductors, using the Keysight Measurement and Modeling Software IC-CAP.

The IC-CAP project (modeling spiral inductors with and without metal-1 shielding) can be downloaded together with a detailed pdf explaining the steps demonstrated in the video.

To download the project files referred to in this video visit:
http://www.keysight.com/find/eesof-how-to-model-spiral-inductors
Published on Feb 11, 2016

Feb 18, 2016

Feb 9, 2016

MIXDES 2016 Paper Submission Deadline

MIXDES Paper Submission Deadline
(March 1st, 2016)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MIXDES 2016 Organizing Committee

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to kindly remind you that paper submission for MIXDES 2016 Conference has been already opened. The deadline for regular paper submission is March 1st, 2016, so I encourage you to register your papers. The instruction for paper preparation is available online. Please note that the paper format and content may be still updated up to Final Paper Version deadline (May 31st, 2016).

This year the MIXDES 2016 Conference will take place in Lodz, Poland, June 23-25, 2016. For more information regarding the conference please visit the MIXDES 2016 Conference web site at
www.mixdes.org.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Hoping to see you in Lodz,

Mariusz Orlikowski
Secretary of the 23rd International Conference
"Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems"
MIXDES 2016
http://www.mixdes.org