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Tanner User Group 2017 Provisional Agenda 1 of 4 0830 Registration opens 0915 Welcome Greg Lebsack, General Manager, Tanner EDA – Mentor 0945 Tanner EDA User Presentations I - Electronics for a Flexible World - Anthony Sou, PragmatIC - LED driver ICs for IoT Applications - Stefan Schubert, Productivity Engineering GmbH 1045 Break 1115 Tanner EDA Presentations II - Comparison of Nitro SoC place and route software with a competitor product, Stefan Woditschka, Microdul 1145 Guest Speaker 1230 Lunch 1330 Mentor technology beyond AMS IC: PCB, PFGA, Design-for-Test Martin Reuter, Technical Director Mentor 1400 Easier, systematic verification management of analog designs Tanner EDA – Mentor 1430 Tanner EDA Presentations III - Speeding up design work with scripts for Ledit and Calibre - Johan Van der Borght, SOFICS - Developing a Gigasample ADC with Tanner/Mentor Tools - Konstantin Schmid, Eesy IC 1530 Break 1545 PDK Developments and Foundry Relationships Tanner EDA - Mentor 1610 Tanner EDA - Notes from the Chief Technologist Mass Sivilotti, CTO, Tanner EDA – Mentor 1715 End 1800 Evening entertainment
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TannerUserGroup2017 ProvisionalAgenda
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0830
Registrationopens
0915
WelcomeGregLebsack,GeneralManager,TannerEDA–Mentor
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TannerEDAUserPresentationsI- ElectronicsforaFlexibleWorld-AnthonySou,PragmatIC- LEDdriverICsforIoTApplications-StefanSchubert,ProductivityEngineeringGmbH
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Break
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TannerEDAPresentationsII- ComparisonofNitroSoCplaceandroutesoftwarewithacompetitorproduct,
StefanWoditschka,Microdul
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GuestSpeaker
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Lunch
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MentortechnologybeyondAMSIC:PCB,PFGA,Design-for-TestMartinReuter,TechnicalDirectorMentor
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Easier,systematicverificationmanagementofanalogdesignsTannerEDA–Mentor
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TannerEDAPresentationsIII- SpeedingupdesignworkwithscriptsforLeditandCalibre-JohanVanderBorght,SOFICS- DevelopingaGigasampleADCwithTanner/MentorTools-KonstantinSchmid,EesyIC
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Break
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PDKDevelopmentsandFoundryRelationshipsTannerEDA-Mentor
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TannerEDA-NotesfromtheChiefTechnologistMassSivilotti,CTO,TannerEDA–Mentor
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End
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Eveningentertainment
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UserPresentationAbstracts&BiographiesAnthonySou,ICDesignManager,PragmatICwww.pragmatic.comElectronicsforaFlexibleWorldPragmatIC'sflexibleelectronictechnologypresentsconsiderablechallengestoestablishedEDAtools.OurrapiddevelopmentfromsmallprototypecircuitscontainingonlyafewtransistorstothecurrentRFIDtagsystem-on-chipshasnotbeeneasy,needingleadingedgetoolsandexpertsupportfromTanner.Inthistalk,wewillintroduceourtechnologyandshowhowwehaveevolvedourcapabilitiesusingTanner'sEDAflow.BiographyAntonySouisanintegratedcircuitdesignerwithextensiveexperienceinmetal-oxide,organicandsiliconsemiconductortechnologies.Heistheauthorofthehandbook,“PracticalGuideToOrganicFieldEffectTransistor(OFET)CircuitDesign”,hasseveralpatentsrelatingtohighspeedserialcommunicationslinkssuchasUSBandPCI-Express,andhasalsopublishedinleadingjournalsandpresentedatconferences.PriortoPragmatIChewasapost-doctoralresearcherattheCavendishLaboratories,UniversityofCambridgeJohanVanderBorght,ESDDesignSpecialist,SOFICSwww.sofics.comSpeedingupdesignworkthroughscriptsforLeditandCalibreToenhancetheuserinterfaceofTannerLedit,Soficsengineershavecreatedseveralscriptstoautomaterepetitivetasks.Suchscriptshelptorenamecells,addtext,cleanuplayer-lists,combinecellsinafloorplan…andcansaveseveralhours,ifnotdaysduringMPWpreparation.OtherscriptsallowustomaximizetheuseofourCalibreDRC/LCS/PEXlicenses.Longdurationrunsonlargedesignsandquickchecksonsub-cellsarescheduledperfectly.BiographyJohanVanderBorghtreceivedhisM.Sc.DegreeinElectro-technicalengineeringoptionelectronics,subsectionVLSI,in1992fromtheTechnicalCollegeKIHOofGhent,Belgium.HisMasterthesisisentitled“ICFailureRatePredictionModel”whichgotaposterpresentationatESREF93andwasnominatedfortheEgeminaward.PriortojoiningSarnoffEuropein2007asESDdesignengineer,Johanwasteachingelectronics,VLSItechniquesandCADattheTechnicalCollegeKIHOofGhent(nowCatholicUniversityofLeuven,TechnologycampusGhent)from1993till1997whenhejoinedSipex(laterExarandnowMaxLinear)inMilpitas(CA)andlaterinitsBelgianbranchoffice.AfterJune2009,SarnoffEuropebecameSofics‘SolutionsforICs’.HeisnowworkingasESDdesignspecialistondifferentadvancedCMOSprojects(28nm-16nmFinFETs)andonESDsolutionsforhighvoltageapplications.HisfocusistodevelopnewESDclamps,tolowertheimplementationeffortforcustomersandtosupportcustomersworldwide.
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KonstantinSchmid,ProgramManagerAnalogDesign,EesyICwww.eesy-ic.comDevelopingaGigasampleADCwithTanner/MentorToolsThedevelopmentprocessofanADCclockedinthegigahertzdomainhasspecialdemandsonfrontendaswellasbackendtools.Thespicesimulatormustbefastaswellasaccurate.Mixedsignalco-simulatorsareneededtoperformtop-levelverification.Furthermore,RFsimulationsmustbeconsideredwhenaimingonagigahertzsamplingrate.ThebackendtoolsmustallowDRC,LVS,andRCXtoexaminetheperformanceofcriticalblocksafterlayout.Thedesignflowofahigh-performanceADCusingtheMentor/TannerToolswillbepresented.BiographyKonstantinSchmidwasborninHammelburg,Germany,in1983.AfterheearnedhisDiplomadegreeinelectronicengineeringattheUniversityofErlangen-Nuremberg,Germany,hewaswithahighperformanceanalogdesigngroupofTexasInstruments.Since2012,Konstantinispartofananalogdesigngroupateesy-icGmbH,Tennenlohe,withthefocusonhigh-resolutionandhigh-speedADCsandDACs.In2016,heearnedthePhDattheUniversityofErlangen-Nuremberg.StefanSchubert,ExecutiveVPICDesign,ProductivityEngineeringGmbH,SermaGrouphttp://www.pe-gmbh.comLEDdriverICsforIoTApplicationsSmartmanagementofLEDlightingrequiresdigitalcontroloftheLEDs.LEDdriverICsarebecomingmoreandmoreintegratedbutstillrequirealotofexternaldevicestoreallycontrolthelightinasmartway,morethanjustonandoffswitching.ProductivityEngineeringGmbHworkedintwogovernmentfundedprojectswherewedesignedprobablysmallestdirectlypowerlineconnectedLEDdriverICaswellasa“smart”LEDdriverIC.Bothemploya600VXFABCMOStechnologyandhaveeverythingrequiredforpowerfactorcorrectionincludingthepowerFETsononedie.Atleastonedemonstratorwillbeshown.TannerandMentorEDAtoolshavebeenusedtodevelopthoseICs.
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BiographyStefanSchubertwasaco-founderofProductivityEngineeringGmbHandhasmanageditsASICDesignCenterinDresdensince2005.PriortothatheworkedintheUSAfortwoyearsandalsoforthreesemiconductorcompaniesinDresdenindifferentpositions.Hestartedhiscareerin1995afterstudyingmicroelectronicsattheTUofChemnitz.StefanWoditschka,ProjectManager,Microdulwww.microdul.comComparisonofNitroSoCplaceandroutesoftwarewithacompetitorproductTannerintegratesanindustry-standardP&Rtoolforareasonableprice.MicrodulandEDASolutionsagreedtoperforma“shadowrun”usingthistool,theresultsusingNitroSoCwillbecomparedtotheplaceandrouteusingthecompetitorsoftware.Thefocusisontheachievedblocksizeandtiming.BiographyStefanWoditschkaisanICdeveloperandProjectManageratMicrodulAGinZurich,Switzerland.Hiskeycompetencesarethedesignandsimulationofmixed-signalsensorfront-ends.AtMicrodulheisresponsibleforthedevelopmentoftemperaturesensor-andmonitorICs,aswellasforthemaintenanceandadvancementoftheMentor/Tannerfull-customdesignflow.PriortohisemploymentatMicrodulAG,Mr.Woditschkawasabletoacquireknowledgeonsensorfront-endsandX-Fab’s350nmprocessesduringhismastercourseatIlmenauUniversityofTechnologyinGermany.
