About Analog Rails™

Although Get2spec / Analog Rails is considered the new kids on the block, we are anything but new kids. Our CEO has over 25 years of experience in analog circuit design and driving analog/RF design methodologies, and two of our programmers both have PHD's in artificial intelligence with over 60 years of combined experience. We have been paid members of Open Access since 2003, and we are finally about to launch our flagship product, Analog Rails.

Analog Rails is not a "power rail" tool. "Rails" refers to a guided framework. It is an expert IC design platform that is designed from scratch on the Open Access database (works alongside virtuoso environment). Our focus is to create the best analog and RF environment for the IC circuit designer. This is not intended for the layout designer. The emphasis is on automating the creation of layout as much as possible, and providing the circuit designer layout extracted values immediately for use in his simulation. We believe that the circuit designer is supposed to do the layouts, and should do so by not having to worry about design rules. Since the snap, repel, alignment, updating, collision avoidance, via insertion, and routing is automatic, the circuit designer merely drags devices around and releases them without ever having to use a ruler or read the design manual, except for the chapter that displays the current curves as a function of LOD and WPE!

The same Analog Rails developers that created the schematic editor also created the layout editor, ensuring the devices in both the schematic and layout are always matched. Devices created in one editor are automatically generated in the other. All routes are connectivity aware. Short circuits are impossible.

Our key feature has always been the analog router, so the layout editor has been designed to be automatic router aware to ensure that the user won't be able to trip up our router, which produces several DRC/LVS clean solutions with a single click of a button.

At Get2spec, the developers and architects are the shareholders. There are 11 full-time developers and many part-timers. This is the right amount. We are fully staffed. There are no shares of stock owned by business analysts or speculators. Every shareholder and employee is either a circuit designer, layout designer, or programmer. We have no salesman, no marketing, no managers, no program managers, no personnel department, and no bean counters. Many companies in our industry are led by marketing people. We are engineering driven.