Analog design automation startup gets backing
Farakh Javid, CTO, founded the company. Javid worked at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris, France, which has been working for 25 years on analog design methods.
That research has resulted in a portfolio of analog and mixed-signal circuits in the form of intellectual property (IP) that can be automatically scaled for performance and migrated between manufacturing processes. This scalability and transferability is useful for analog and mixed-signal circuits used in complex SoCs for connected applications such as the Internet of Things, the company claims.
Intento can speed up analog design with software that can be used with existing design flows to automate circuit sizing while optimizing for parameters such as desired power consumption, performance, bandwidth and circuit area (cost).
The company’s tool is ID-Xplore, which can sit after a open-access analog IP database such as might be used with Cadence’s Virtuoso and ahead of Cadence’s Spectre analog simulator. Using ID-Xplore, designers input the desired parameters of complex analog functions, and explore schematic options to achieve the right balance of performance, power consumption and robustness for a wide range of connected applications. Typical circuits include amplifiers and reconfigurable filters.
ID-Xplore reduces the number of simulator iterations required for hierarchical designs by a factor of between 5 and 100, the company claims.
Key investors in this round of funding include Seventure Partners and the Foreis Endowment Fund.
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