According to Tanner EDA (Pasadena, Calif.), Tanner Tools 12.1 has been upgraded and tightly integrated for rapid design flow, enabling designers of analog and mixed-signal chips to halve the time previously required for design capture, simulation, layout, design rule checking and verification. Tanner Tools' Windows-based interface allows users to start designing in moments, to switch easily among tools and to share files across many locations, according to the company.

"Today's analog and mixed-signal designers demand not only functionality but cost efficiency, speed and rapid start-up to maximize the return on their design investment and to minimize time to market," said John Tanner, president and CEO of Tanner EDA. "Tanner Tools have evolved from a small number of specialized design aids to today's complete design solution. Developed to meet the unique needs of analog and mixed-signal circuit designers, the tools are very different from those used by digital designers."

The essential analog design tool in the Tanner EDA Tool Suite, T-Spice 12.1, offers improvements in simulation speed and robustness, Tanner EDA said. S-Edit, Tanner EDA's schematic capture tool, has also been completely re-architected and rebuilt into a new tool with user interface, performance and interoperability enhancements added, according to the company.

Tanner Tools 12.1, including S-Edit, T-Spice, and L-Edit will be available this month, the company said. Pricing information was not provided.