Author Archives: Paul Dempsey

About Paul Dempsey

Paul Dempsey is editor-in-chief of Tech Design Forum and has been a technology journalist for 20 years. His work has also appeared in EETimes, Red Herring and specialist journals published by the Financial Times.
April 4, 2016

HyperLynx made broader and easier to use

HyperLynx from Mentor Graphics has moved into a new generation with more integrated features beyond PI and SI, and an easier to use GUI.
March 31, 2016

Meet the Electronic System Design Alliance

The EDA Consortium is rebranding and extending its activities to better reflect all the tools and services that now comprise IC design.
March 11, 2016

GSA on how to reinvigorate silicon business models

Open-source hardware, in-field configurability, and a hardware-plus-services approach could protect margins as the IoT hammers down costs, says GSA report.
March 9, 2016

IP implementation variety drives latest partnerships

Mentor Graphics' recent deal with ARM illustrates how proliferation in design is influencing deals between tool and IP vendors.
March 1, 2016

Mentor builds out verification IP for memory

About 1,600 new UVM System Verilog verification IP memory models will cut testbench development time and offer more time to increase coverage.
February 25, 2016

Mentor’s Veloce boasts emulation gains fueled by software

Mentor Graphics is looking to get yet more efficiency from its market-leading Veloce emulator family through an OS upgrade and new task-specific Apps.
December 18, 2015

Accellera and Mentor’s Dennis Brophy talks standards targets and DVCon

Driving down energy consumption for the IoT, making portable stimulus deliver real benefits and the practical benefts of a globalizing DVCon.
December 4, 2015

Three key ways to reduce silicon test costs

Mentor's Greg Aldrich describes how test's market leader is driving down cost in the billion-gate era by rethinking and extending existing technologies
November 12, 2015

DVCon Europe: UVM-SystemC backers ready first draft

But the bridge standard's European backers still need greater support from the big EDA vendors.
November 12, 2015

DVCon Europe: Getting TLM to cope with proliferating ECUs and serial protocols

High powered alliance develops TLM standards to address growing automotive and IoT concerns.