Dear Friends,

Posted July 2nd:

Three moths have passed since the terrible earthquake and Tsunami. While being terrified by horrible disasters afterwards caused by nuclear power plants, we have concentrated on developing a new program ALTA (Anagix Local Tools Assistant) which enables PC tools like LTspice to be integrated with Web-based ALB (Anagix Library Builder). Together with AX option, Cadence design data can be mixed with ones edited by LTspice. Simulations can be performed on either Linux Workstations (with Spectreo or LTspice) or on Windows PCs with LTspice. Our future plan is to support other PC based tools as well so that design data on different systems can be made interchangeable, thus final verification can be performed on a target system.

Why and where such heterogeneous solution is needed? We believe that there are still many electronics equipments which have not benefited from semiconductor integration technology because of small production volume. There products are not attractive for conventional silicon vendors because total revenue is small. High margin chips are attractive for small design ventures, but they cannot afford to pay huge money to EDA vendors. It is imperative to lower EDA cost and fabrication cost for human beings to benefit from electronics by means of integrated circuits. Heterogeneous system can not only lower EDA cost, but also be friendly to people who have been made apart from integrated circuits design.  Please let me know if you agree or not agree with my points.

Thank you and best regards,

Seijiro Moriyama

Posted January 2011:

Time flies! Two years have passed since I started Anagix. ALB(Anagix Library Builder) and AX option (Cadence Virtuoso interface) turned out useful to help designers finish analog designs so that the design can be re-used by other designers or by themselves later. It is crucially important to leave design documents with design data for advanced analog designs. However, to do so was not always possible due to high cost to make design documents because conventional analog design tools lack capabilities to develop these. ALB and AX option complement this part. ALB and AX option (now called Analog Finalizer) also make design data compact and portable.

Cadence design data can be imported to ALB via AX option. Simulation results are available on Web browsers, which can then be drag and dropped to design document being edited with a WYSIWYG editor. Design documents (slide shows ready) are instantly available to other designers. Cadence design data are stored in ALB's repository with version control. Together with ALB's unique history capability, designer can access any Cadence design version and corresponding simulation results. Analog Finalizer makes it possible to re-use advanced analog designs, and enables high value-added product development.

The Analog Finalizer will debut at EDSFair which will be held on January 27th and 28th at Yokohama. If you are interested, please let me know.

Thank you and best regards,

Seijiro Moriyama

Posted October 2010:

Since June, ALB has made big progress in two domains. One is in an interface to Cadence ADE which is a defacto standard
analog design system since 1990's. ALB's AX option made it a peace of cake to read in Spectre netlist into ALB's database.
Another one is ALB's unique capability to add documents to design data stored in ALB's database.

"Although documents are indispensable to describe designers intents in analog design, it takes long
time and requires hard work to develop these in conventional systems, where design documents and
design data sometimes do not match. Authors have been developing a Web-based Analog Design
system (ALB) which enables design and document co-development. In the report, attempts in design
documentation automation will be presented." -- this is a summary of Anagix's presentation at IEEJ's
analog design workshop which will be held at Yamanashi University in Kofu, Japan on October 28th.

Our final goal is to make design document development cost virtually zero.

Best regards,

Seijiro Moriyama

Posted June 2010:

Sorry for not having updated the English page for a long while. Anagix ALB server was made open to public in December 2009 for evaluation. Researchers and developers in analog design can freely access Anagix ALB server to share design data presented at academic activities.

ALB server has been used as a private cloud (on intranet) in a few companies and Universities in Japan.

As you might have noticed, a short ALB demo is available in the Welcome page. Feel free to contact sales@anagix.com or me via Linkedin if you are interested to try ALB by yourself.

Best regards,

Seijiro Moriyama

Posted August 2009:

Let me give you some updates on our progress. We have been developing an innovative Analog circuit design environment named ALB(Anagix Library Builder) as a Web application, featuring ease of Analog IP development and re-use. ALB will complement expensive design tools to provide designers with easy to use,  in-expensive design and re-use environment.

ALB will be made available on Anagix server for free. We will sell personal and company versions for local use at very reasonable price. Anagix would like to accelerate design re-use and exchange in Analog/RF/Mixed Signal design community via ALB.

Best regards,

Seijro Moriyama

Posted April 2009:
Seijiro has a sales representative contract and a professional consulting services contract with PDF Solutions.

As of April 21st, 2009, we have presented a paper titled "Web Application Development for Analog Circuit/Device Libraries" at Karuizawa Workshop in Japan. The system aims at IP re-use, PDK SPICE model library development, and eventually SoC design automation.

Posted January 2009:
Thank you for visiting the page. I have started Anagix Corporation (located in Zushi, Japan) on January 7th, 2009. The name originated from Analog + agile + unix. As it implies, we are going to support analog integrated circuit design activities with agile software solution and services.

The company will be focused on Japan market for a while. But if you are interested in my company, please feel free to contact me through Linkedin.