It used to be easy to pin down analog and mixed-signal electronics. The basic building blocks included amplifiers and data converters. Chip companies specialized in continually improving those blocks.

Astrus, a Canada-based startup focusing on analog IC design automation, is aspiring to revolutionize the global chip design industry by leveraging recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI).

Power integrity is a broad term in integrated circuit (IC) design and verification. However, when IC engineers are working through design signoff, power integrity analysis focuses on three specific ...