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Pursues market niche for tool initially built for internal use
Santa Cruz, Calif. - In the middle of a tough design project in 2002, consultant Brendan Graham needed an inexpensive mixed-signal simulation tool. He couldn't find one, so his company, [mu]SysIntegral, with financial backing from the client, built its own.
Now, [mu]SysIntegral is going into beta testing with XSpiceHDL, which links the XSpice circuit simulator from the Georgia Technical Research Institute to commercial Verilog simulators. While it's in beta testing, an unsupported version of XSpiceHDL can be downloaded free from the company's Web site.
[mu]SysIntegral-the Greek [mu] character stands for micron-has been doing digital and analog hardware design for more than a decade, said Graham, the company's chief technical officer. Customers include Intel, Texas Instruments, Sky Computer, Veridian and the former Digital Equipment Corp.
But [mu]SysIntegral has decided to refocus on low-end EDA, Graham said. This decision arose out of Graham's experience with a client in 2002.
"I needed to do some very precise work involving both analog and HDL design, and I did not...