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Live and on-demand videos as well as You Tube 'tips and techniques' clips form part of a wide 'work at home' support package from Mentor.

The PCB and wire harness design specialist has posted an online blog with tips and advice on using and licensing its tools for home use.

Partnership combines Siemens PAVE 360 digital twin with ARM IP, including dedicated automotive offerings, to speed and streamline design toward Level 5.

Imec, TNO, and Cartamundi have developed a low-cost way of letting tags communicate with embedded devices wirelessly by using a capacitive touchscreen.

Cadence Design Systems has agreed to buy the AWR RF-design company from its current owner National Instruments for approximately $160m.

Harness manufacture in automotive remains manually intensive but model-based engineering provides a way to streamline the processes to make them more efficient, a Mentor white paper claims.

Cadence has followed its launched of a parallelizable EM simulator with one that focuses on the thermal behavior of ICs through to multi-PCB assemblies.

Siemens is combining recent acquisitions in novel ways, including one that will see a web-app development package interact more closely with Mentor's embedded offerings.

The digital-twin concept provides several avenues to achieving better safety analysis and is likely to benefit from Siemens' integration of Mentor activities.

Concerns that the diplomatic stand-off between Seoul and Tokyo could hit the supply chain rose again this weekend as South Korean politicians made a surprise visit to disputed islands.