KH Technical provides specialized EDA and CAD support to address the needs of organizations in the RF and IC design fields. Especially at the crossroads where the worlds of RF design and IC design intersect. Our experience comes from both the perspectives of design engineering as well as CAD/IT support. This provides a unique ability to understand the specific needs of the design engineers as well as understanding of how to provide working tools to satisfy those needs.
We work with existing IT providers and provide expert assistance with the installation, configuration, and maintenance of the specialized EDA tool stacks and project environments needed by IC designers. Our goal is to ensure that design engineers remain productive by ensuring their tools work as needed.
Services
Version Control & Project Management
- Design version control
- PDK version control
- EDA tool version control
- Data synchronization between sites
- Project environment configuration control
- Legacy project availability
PDK maintenance and support
- PDK installation and configuration
- Verification of PDK functionality
- Regression testing for new PDKs
- Notification of new PDK releases
- Marinating access to legacy PDKs
EDA tool support
- Installation and configuration
- Multi-vendor EDA tool-flows
- Workstation standardization & synchronization
- Tool standardization & synchronization
- Support for all major tool vendors Keysight, Cadence, Mentor, Ansys, Cliosoft, etc.
User Support
- Solving problems with EDA tools
- Debugging PDK issues
- Creation of test-cases for vendor support
- Monitoring of vendor support tickets
- Assessment of company needs
Additional Services
- License monitoring & Cost analysis
- Custom scripting
- Distributed computing
- Backup, Data Security, and Disaster Recovery
Experience
Our staff has been directly involved with evaluating and satisfying the EDA & CAD needs of advanced technology design groups since 2005. We have managed CAD and IT infrastructure for design groups of varying sizes spread across multiple geographic locations. During this time we have participated in acquisitions, opening remote design centers, and office moves. We have also experienced the evolving challenges of supporting the entire life-cycle of a project. A major part of this experience is having discovered first hand what can go wrong, and how to adapt to prevent similar problems from happening again.
Our core expertise is with the following tools being utilized for Integrated Circuit (IC) design. We have had extensive experience working with these tools both as a design engineer and as an administrator. This affords a unique insight into the various peculiarities of these tools.
- Cadence Design Systems
- Virtuoso
- Assura DRC / LVS / QRC
- MMSIM / Spectre
- Keysight
- ADS
- GoldenGate
- Interoperable PDK integration
- Version / Revision Control
- Cliosoft SOS
- Cadence integration
- ADS integration
- Cliosoft SOS
- Distributed Computing Clusters
- Electromagnetic Simulator Integration
- Integrand EMX
- Ansys HFSS
- PeakView
- Foundry & PDK Experience
- Global Foundries / IBM
- Tower Jazz
- WIN
- WaveTek