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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Shall always synchronize external input by internal clock

http://www.edn.com/article/CA6648806.html?title=Article&spacedesc=news&nid=3927

"big no-nos in digital design: using an external signal directly without synchronizing it with a flip-flop to the internal clock"



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Monday, July 13, 2009

Free SPICE simulator from TI

http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/tina-ti.html

"without any node or number of device limitations", "loaded with a library of TI macromodels plus passive and active models"


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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Better Loop Gain Simulation (with LTspice examples)

http://sites.google.com/site/frankwiedmann/loopgain

Include the LTspice examples using "Middlebrook's General Feedback Theorem", and Tian's Method (the one implemented in stb analysis in Cadence Spectre).


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Saturday, July 11, 2009

An IC design trading platform

http://yourcircuits.com/home

"provides a platform to allow circuit designers to trade their circuit designs."

It is a good opportunity for freelance design consultant.



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Friday, July 3, 2009

Optimization tool working together with SPICE?

http://members.aon.at/fschmid7/page_2_1.html

will read more details, including "LTSPICE user group at Yahoo"



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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Free 0.35 um CMOS model library for LTspice

http://ecee.colorado.edu/~ecen4827/spice.html

LTspice is also free. Thus is good enough for a student to practise analog IC designs.



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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Fabricate a chip through MOSIS yourself

http://www.planetanalog.com/features/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217701385

"Home schoolers don't qualify as academic institutions, so we must apply for accounts as commercial entities. My account is under the legacy proprietorship business I have, called Tesoft. They were kind enough to accept me, even though I look a whole lot more like the students they avoid instead of the professors they support."


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LTspice: free SPICE simulator

http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/ltspice.jsp

Another free spice simulator, provided by Linear Technology.



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