Re: gEDA-dev: Last call for input on SOW for Linux Fund....

[John Griessen <john-at-NOSPAMecosensory_dot_com>]

Dan McMahill wrote:
> I wonder if Paul Horowitz does complex chip designs.  The reality of it 
> is that simulation tools have never been that useful or in my opinion 
> critical for the sorts of circuits in his book.
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>> Kundert's book is what Al got me to buy. It's a sales pitch,
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> 12 pages of background and context
> 20 pages of sales pitch
>  > 200 pages of reference material spelling out the language
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> doesn't sound like bad SNR to me.
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> If you don't use tools like these, do your designs have large mixed 
> signal components that are not easily broken apart?  By that I mean, do 
> you have blocks that contain some subcells which are prohibitive for 
> simulating at the transistor level but yet you have to have a model of 
> them in place during a simulation because they are part of a feedback 
> loop?
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I need to afford Kundert's book.  Even though I am not employed doing mainstream
mega-chips anymore.  What's useful for mega-micro-chips is going to be useful for
organic-semiconductor-based macro-printed-circuits-on-insulator-on-steel soon.

John Griessen
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Ecosensory   Austin TX


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