Deutsch Research ProfileDeutsch Research ProfileThe use of ICs ( Integrated Circuits) in a wide variety of products, including computers, networking equipment, cellular telephones, consumer electronics, and medical and scientific instruments has led to dramatic growth in the worldwide market for ICs. According to industry sources, the worldwide market now exceeds $100 billion anually and is growing 30% per year. ICs include memory chips, microprocessors and ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), and other components.
The market for EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools in IC design has experienced concurrent growth, and is now estimated to be approximately $1.5 billion per year. Advances in semiconductor process technology to deep submicron (less than 0.5 micron) geometries have greatly increased the complexity of semiconductor devices, and increased the demand for complex EDA tools.
The IC design process requires EDA tools that analyze and verify the IC being designed. Analysis and verification are performed with tools known as simulators which are used to evaluate whether a chip based upon a given design will meet functional specifications when fabricated in silicon. Simulators depend upon collections of models known as libraries to accurately predict performance.
To reduce time to market, lower costs, and ensure IC performance under a variety of conditions, there is a critical need for accurate circuit simulators. There are two broad types of simulators: those that primarily simulate digital circuits and those that simulate analog circuits. SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis ) is an analog circuit simulator originally developed at Berkeley in the 70s and early 80s, and subsequently commercialized by companies like Deutsch Research.
The Founder & The CompanyDeutsch Research was founded in 1993 by Dr. Jeffrey T. Deutsch, who received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Deutsch was a member of the original U.C. Berkeley SPICE research group, and his Ph.D. was awarded for his ground breaking research on advance circuit simulation algorithms and their implementation on conventional and parallel computers. His involvement in SPICE technology has spanned over 20 years.
In addition to its sales through Viewlogic and other OEM's, Deutsch Research is marketing its SPICE programs directly to the public under the name DR. SPICE™. Deutsch Research has a growing list of experts to provide you with sales support, technical support, and a continually improving web site, which will include some of the most useful web technology available...
Providing advancements to their SPICE program above and beyond the industries expectations, has caught the attention of many high end electronic designers. SPICE users have consistently declared easy of use is one of their most important criteria in using a simulator. Deutsch Research listened, and paid particular attention to making DR. SPICE as easy to use as possible. A program that is easy to use enables the user to accomplish design goals faster, therefore getting products to market faster.
At Deutsch Research, our design philosophy is to make frequently used functions as close to "one button access" as possible, and to create a superb on-line help system that will enable the user to understand program functionality quickly, whenever needed.
