DRESDEN, Germany – March 15, 2010
Solido Design Automation, a leading developer of software for reducing variation risk in nanometer designs at the transistor level, today announced at Design And Test Europe (DATE) that the European Design Automation Association has awarded Solido co-founder Trent McConaghy the outstanding dissertation award for his research work on variation-aware design.

Trent’s research thesis is titled “Variation-aware Structural Synthesis and Knowledge Extraction of Analog Circuits.” Springer have published a book based on this research, “Variation-aware Analog Structural Synthesis” ISBN 978-90-481-2905-8. The PhD work was undertaken at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium under the guidance of Prof. Georges Gielen. The research created new tools for front-end analog designers, starting with global variation-aware sizing, and extending to novel variation-aware topology design. The tools aid design through automation. But more importantly, the automation also aids designer insight.

In 2005 Trent co-founded Solido Design Automation to commercialize this research and make it available to analog designers everywhere. Solido has become the leading developer of software for eliminating design loss caused by process variation in analog/mixed-signal and custom integrated circuits.

About Solido Design Automation

Solido Design Automation, Inc. (Solido) provides software for reducing variation risk in nanometer designs at the transistor level. Solido’s Variation Designer and application packages are used by analog/RF, IO, memory and standard cell digital designers to achieve better designs with reduced variation risk in less time. The privately held company is venture capital funded and has offices in the U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Europe. For further information, visit www.solidodesign.com or call 306-382-4100.

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