Tanner EDA has released a ground-up revision of its S-Edit schematic capture design environment.

The tool is tightly integrated with Tanner’s existing tools, including its T-Spice analogue simulation tool, to enable flow-through design capture, simulation, layout, design rule checking and verification.

“This is our first ‘from scratch’ product in many years,” said Paul Double of EDA Solutions, which represents Tanner in the UK. “Although we’re a low-cost tool, we’re trying to come across from the angle of a very flexible, powerful tool.”

S-Edit is suited to “small D, big A” designs, and is apparently attracting increasing demand as designers opt to use processes such as 0.13µm or 90nm for their digital sections, and put analogue functions in a more analogue-friendly process at 0.18µm or above. Double gave the example of MEMS-based microphones for mobile phones.

“The more functions you integrate into SoC digital, the more bits and pieces of analogue you need around and about,” he said.

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