Solido Press Releases

Solido Design to Give Seminar and Tutorial on Variation Robustness for Analog/Mixed-Signal Design at DAC 2008

Solido Design Automation, innovator of process variation solutions for transistor-level integrated circuit (IC) designers, will be demonstrating solutions to head off statistical and proximity variations in analog/ mixed-signal, custom digital and memory ICs in Booth #660 at the Design Automation Conference.

Solido Design to Present Seminar at DATE Exploring Variation Robustness for Analog, Custom Digital and Memory Design

Solido Design Automation, innovator of process variation solutions for transistor-level designers of analog/mixed-signal, custom digital and memory integrated circuits, today announced that the company will present a technical seminar on "Variation Robustness for Analog/Mixed-Signal, Custom Digital and Memory Design" at the Design Automation and Test Europe (DATE) Conference being held on March 10 - 14, 2008 at the ICM in Munich, Germany.

Solido Design's SolidoSTAT Named a Finalist in EDN's 18th Annual Innovation Awards Competition

Solido Design Automation, innovator of process variation solutions for transistor-level designers of analog/mixed-signal, custom digital and memory integrated circuits, today announced that its flagship product SolidoSTAT has been selected from hundreds of nominations to be a finalist for this year's EDN Innovation Awards. The Innovation Awards honor the people, products, and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry over the past year.

Solido Design Closes 2007 on a High Note Supporting Fourteen Production Designs

Solido Design Automation, innovator of process variation solutions for transistor-level designers, has attained significant momentum since announcing its tool suite, SolidoSTAT.

Solido Design Launches SolidoSTAT to Increase Yield of Analog/Mixed-Signal, Custom Digital and Memory Integrated Circuits

Solido Design Automation today announced new software for the semiconductor industry that is a long-awaited answer to the problem of preventable parametric yield loss in integrated circuit design.

Solido Receives $6.5M Second Round Financing

Solido Design Automation today announced second round financing of $6.5 million, bringing total funding in the company to $9 million. The funding will be used to help accelerate the development and deployment of Solido's transistor-level statistical design and verification software technology, which aims to ensure robust analog/mixed-signal, custom digital, and memory integrated circuit (IC) designs.

Solido Design Strengthens Executive Team, Welcomes Vice President of Product Development Douglas Konkin

Solido Design Automation today announced that Douglas Konkin has joined the company as Vice President of Product Development. Konkin, previously a Director of Software Development for fabless semiconductor company PMC-Sierra, will direct the development of Solido's transistor-level statistical design and verification software.

Solido Integrates New Transistor-Level Statistical Design and Verification Technology with Cadence Virtuoso Analog Design Environment and Cadence Spectre Circuit Simulator

Solido Design Automation today announced the integration of its new transistor-level statistical design and verification technology with Cadence® Design System, Inc.'s Virtuoso® Analog Design Environment and Virtuoso Spectre® Circuit Simulator.

Trent McConaghy, Chief Scientific Officer of Solido Design Automation, to Participate in DAC Technical Session: Mixed-Signal Modeling, Methodology and Synthesis

Solido Design Automation, pioneers in transistor-level statistical design and verification software for analog/mixed-signal, custom digital and memory designers, today announced that Chief Scientific Officer Trent McConaghy will be presenting a technical paper titled, Simultaneous Multi-Topology Multi-Objective Circuit Sizing Across Thousands of Analog Circuit Topologies at the 44th Design Automation Conference (DAC) being held June 4 - 8, 2007 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA.

Solido Design Automation Welcomes Chief Technology Officer Patrick Drennan

Solido Design Automation today announced that Patrick Drennan, Ph.D., has joined the company as chief technology officer. Drennan, formerly a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff with Freescale Semiconductor, is well known in the electrical engineering community for his work in semiconductor process technology variations.

Solido Design Announces New Transistor-Level Statistical Design and Verification Technology for Analog/Mixed-Signal, Custom Digital and Memory IC Designs

Solido Design Automation today took the wraps off a new technology that promises to help designers of analog/mixed-signal, custom digital, and memory integrated circuits (ICs) ensure that their transistor-level designs will work across all manufacturing process variations.

Solido Design Automation Announces Strategic Business Partnership With Japan's Aisys Corporation

Solido Design Automation, pioneers in transistor-level design enhancement solutions for analog/mixed-signal, custom digital and memory design, today announced a strategic business partnership with Aisys Corporation in Japan.

Solido Design Automation Opens U.S. Sales Office

Solido Design Automation, pioneers in transistor-level design enhancements solutions for analog/mixed-signal design, as well as custom digital and memory design, for the EDA market, today announced the opening of its U.S. sales and support office as part of a significant move in the company’s overall expansion strategy, along with the appointment of Zdzislaw "Z" Marcisz as Solido’s sales director.

Solido Design Automation to Present Mixed-Signal Tutorial at the 2006 ICCAD Conference

Solido Design Automation, pioneers in transistor-level design enhancements solutions for analog/mixed-signal design, as well as custom digital and memory design for the EDA market, today announced that the company will present a tutorial on “Automation in Mixed-Signal Design” at the IEEE/ACM 2006 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) being held November 5-9, 2006 in San Jose, CA.

Solido Design Automation Announces Private Investment by Technology Heavyweights

Following up on the June 26 announcement of first round investment (Solido Design Automation: Entrepreneurs Launch Second EDA Company in Analog/Mixed-Signal Design Space), Solido Design Automation today announced private investment from some well-known figures in the world of technology.

Solido Design Automation Announces Board of Directors

Solido Design Automation today announced the formation of its Board of Directors.

Solido Design Automation To Showcase Transistor-Level Analog/Mixed-Signal and Custom Digital Technology

Solido Design Automation will be highlighting the company’s transistor-level design solutions for analog/mixed-signal design, as well as custom digital and memory designs at the upcoming IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and also at Cadence Design Systems’ CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2006.

Solido Design Automation: Entrepreneurs Launch Second EDA Company in Analog/Mixed-signal Design Space

Amit Gupta and Trent McConaghy, previous co-founders of Analog Design Automation (which was acquired by Synopsys, Inc. in 2004) today announced formation of a new electronic design automation (EDA) company, Solido Design Automation Inc.