Silvaco International and its subsidiary, Silvaco Data Systems, is a privately owned provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software. Silvaco was founded in 1984 by Dr. Ivan Pesic. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with 11 offices worldwide. In 2006, Silvaco had about 250 employees worldwide. Electronic design automation (EDA) is the category of tools for designing and producing electronic systems ranging from printed circuit boards (PCBs) to integrated circuits. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official website: http://www. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The company delivers products for TCAD process and device simulation, Spice parameter extraction, circuit simulation, interconnect modelling and custom IC design and verification. The company integrates these products with support and engineering services to provide complete analog semiconductor process, device and design automation solutions in CMOS, bipolar, SiGe and compound technologies. Worldwide customers include leading fabless semiconductor companies, integrated semiconductor manufacturers, foundries, and universities. TCAD may stand for one of the following: Technology CAD, Computer-Aided Design for semiconductor manufacturing technology TCAD, a component of Borland Delphi and C++Builder Builder to facilitate writing vector graphics applications. ... Shop with spices in Morocco A spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark or vegetative substance used in nutritionally insignificant quantities as a food additive for the purpose of flavouring. ... Integrated circuit showing memory blocks, logic and input/output pads around the periphery A monolithic integrated circuit (also known as IC, microchip, silicon chip, computer chip or chip) is a miniaturized electronic circuit (consisting mainly of semiconductor devices, as well as passive components) which has been manufactured in the surface... Static CMOS Inverter CMOS (see-moss), which stands for complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, is a major class of integrated circuits. ... Bipolar can refer to: Bipolar (biology) Bipolar disorder Bipolar junction transistor (electronics) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... SiGe stands for Silicon-Germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor and is an integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing technology. ... A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. ...

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• Silvaco homepage