thanks for your message,
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1. "tlihu": the first item you mentioned is really hot in my view. it relats with mixed-signal design and simulation which is also the main research area I am interested in (of course, EDA for this area). The second is common sense for all circuit design. The third, I think there are many good EDA tools and it relates not only with analog, but digital and physics. I have used Dracula from Cadence and EPIC(PowerMill, TimeMill) from Sysnopsys, but not familiar. Magma does well in this area for DSM design.
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2. "andy2000a": how do you know these analog EDA tools? Do you often use analog tools? The most often eda tools I or my friend using is Virtuoso Mix-Signal design Enviroment. I don't know is there some company use analog synthesizer to do there analog design. Most common thing I know is to adopt some analog IPs and re-design them to make them suitable to the definited process and SOC chip enviroment. Am I right? I don't know much about the analog eda tools' usage condition in company.
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3, "sutapanaki"
I agree with you
My girl friend is also an analog design engineer and she told me the work takes pains and only person like her who are persisting on a certain thing for a long term can do it well. I think maybe I can resolve it with some simple setting and let all arduous things for computer doing. Then we will have more time to take a walk or go to movie house.
Thanks for your help and waiting for more.
Happy new year.