By Hossam Sarhan and Alexandre Arriordaz With the increasing complexity of design layouts and shorter tapeout cycles, waiting until signoff…
By Abdellah Bakhali If you’re not an electrostatic discharge (ESD) expert (and let’s face it, most of us aren’t), verifying…
By Hossam Sarhan Work smarter, not harder. Isn’t that what everyone is always telling you? Of course, it’s excellent advice,…
By Slava Zhuchenya So your net trace has too much parasitic resistance. Where is it coming from? You ran your…
By Hossam Sarhan With the growing complexity of system-on-chip designs and technology scaling, multiple power domains are needed to optimize…
By Mark Tawfik Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is the discharge of static electrical current when two objects come into contact. One…
By Derong Yan As we move to advanced semiconductor process nodes, electrostatic discharge (ESD) issues have become more critical in…
By Neel Natekar Radio frequency (RF) circuitry is an essential component of many of the critical applications we now rely…
By Abdellah Bakhali System-on-chip (SoC) designs often use multiple intellectual property (IP) blocks from multiple IP providers. Each IP provider…