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We provide lectures, training, consulting, and support to your designers and verification engineers. In some cases, we take on the actual verification work. Our primary focus is to educate, so that when we’re finished, your designers and verification engineers can find these errors for themselves. We are strong believers that the best way to teach is for us to coach your designers and verification engineers, and the managers working with them, on the technical, resource, and project planning aspects. The fastest way to adoption is for everyone to see tangible benefits on a production design. Our most gratifying moment is when designers see that they are now capable of finding errors that they would have missed if it were not for our help.
To start we offer lectures, classes, and assessments. From there we can work with you to develop a custom program that transforms your design process over the course of several designs to include a strong verification component.
Simulation Tune-Up Service
We are offering a new service called the 'simulation tune-up'. Ken visits your site, gives a lecture of your choice in the morning, and then spends the rest of the day discussing simulation and modeling issues with your analog engineering staff. You can choose a lecture from the following list,
- Verification of complex analog integrated circuits
- Using RF simulators on analog circuits: how to perform simulations you never thought were possible
- An introduction to cyclostationary noise: noise in mixers, oscillators, samplers, and logic
- Simulation of switched-capacitor and other sampled-data circuits
- Determining the stability of feedback loops (including switched-capacitor and switching power supplies)
or you can request a lecture customized to your needs. The discussion is often the most valuable part of this service. It allows your designers to pose questions and present their problems to one of the world's leading experts on simulation. Your designer's usually benefit from an improved understanding of the capabilities of the simulator and how they can be used to perform challenging simulations. Design teams usually make much more effective use of their simulators after a simulation tune-up.
Prices start at $5K.
Training
- Functional verification
- RF simulation with SpectreRF (under development)
- Mixed-signal simulation with SpectreRF (under development)
- Analog & RF Modeling with Verilog-A (under development)
- Mixed-Signal Modeling with Verilog-AMS (under development)
Prices start at $10K and include the training plus substantial time interacting with your engineers.
Advanced Simulation & Modeling Consulting
- Development of simulation techniques and models to address specific problems or circuits.
- Training on how to use RF simulator to address a wide variety of simulation needs, particularly for sampling and switching circuits.
- Custom simulation and modeling application notes and presentations.
- General Q&A sessions on simulation and modeling issues.
A program is designed to meet your needs. Prices vary.
Verification Methodology Consulting
- Customer specific training
- Assessments
- Guiding the verification of a design project (includes help on planning, model and testbench development, regression testing, reviews, etc.)
- Deployment
A program is designed to meet your needs. Prices vary.
Prices given are approximate and are for a single visit to sites within the western continental United States (Pacific and Mountain time zones). Add $2K for elsewhere in US, $5K for Europe or Japan, and $10K for all other locations. Travel costs are an additional charge and are billed as actually accrued.
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