“We've been working with Silvaco since we started the company 13 years ago. They've been a big part of our success. As of today, we're still using their Expert tool for the layout editor. All of our designs are done in Expert all the way down to 5 nanometer.”
– Randy Caplan, CEO, Silicon Creations
In the following video, I interview Silvaco customer Randy Caplan of Silicon Creations from the show floor at DAC 2019, in Las Vegas, about the latest trends and challenges for nanometer IC design success. He talks about using a suite of Silvaco design tools down to the latest 5 nm silicon process nodes. A full ranscript of the conversation is below, as well.