Mentor now scales Xpedition’s multi-board PCB capabilities
The latest update to Mentor's market-leading PCB design suite aims to unify system definitions across multiple tools to reduce errors.
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Real Intent’s Meridian CDC flexes hierarchical muscle, adds flexible debug
Major overhaul of clock domain crossing suite adds configurable debugger, boosts performance by 30% and cuts memory 40% for 'giga-scale' designs.
TSMC: e-beam winning on cost over EUV for lithography
EUV may be getting most R&D cash but the world's biggest foundry says e-beam currently has the edge on defects and double patterning.
Foxconn’s wishlist for wearables and the Internet of Things
Manufacturing giant says we need a new category of WPUs - wearables processing units - to create a mass market and that ARM needs to go smaller than the MO.
Mentor’s latest for Xpedition PCB upgrades the ante in data transfer
New data transfer standard challenges IPC-2581 and extends Mentor's own ODB++.
Real Intent puts the accent on debug with new Ascent IIV release
More than 20 new features and improvements are added to the static functional tool.
Mentor launches heterogeneous multicore development platform
As heterogeneous multicore SoCs move into the mainstream, embedded developers face increasing integration and debug challenges.
Don’t just whine – it’s time for you to help shape DAC 2015
Any conference can only be as good as the feedback it gets. And next year's DAC team is actively looking for yours. It'll be worth your time.
Real Intent’s Pranav Ashar on converging design and verification
Verify early and simulate as little as possible - the idea is familiar but how do you get there?
Mentor’s Wally Rhines on tools as a cultural issue
Whether you're going to DAC this week or not, it's worth remembering one of the other key factors that will inform your judgments on new tools.