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.
July 30, 2020

Second formal check aids deadlock hunting

Arm works with EDA to find new efficiencies based on extra CTL-based check in Questa runs.
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July 29, 2020

Litho hotspot analysis gets machine-learning turbocharge

A Mentor-Samsung collaboration cuts the need for model-based analysis and speeds analysis runtime by as much as 20X.
July 20, 2020

FastSPICE upgrade boosts nano-scale analog verification by up to 10X

Mentor adds Analog FastSPICE eXTreme innovations for designs facing increasing parasitic complexity and contact resistance challenges at cutting edge nodes.
June 17, 2020

Siemens raises Capital to full E/E design level

Capital has been grown from a wire harness suite to a full electrical/electronic platform with integration for digital twin strategies.
March 3, 2020

DVCon US 2020: Coronavirus program changes

DVCon US 2020 is to end a day early as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak and released an updated agenda.
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February 26, 2020

DVCon US 2020 preview: ESD Alliance

The Electronic System Design Alliance will discuss the benefits it offers for design and verification, and has added Avery Design Systems.
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October 4, 2019

Master the design and verification of next gen transport: Part Three – functional safety

The third part of this series takes the original CNN demonstrator through a full ISO 26262 type functional safety workflow
September 3, 2019
Joe Sawicki, EVP for IC EDA, Mentor. 'AI inside' analysis

EDA with ‘AI inside’ – Mentor’s Joe Sawicki offers an insider’s view

Mentor has a host of tools - some public, some not - that leverage AI and ML. EVP Joe Sawicki has been describing the strategy behind their development.
September 2, 2019

South Korea-Japan tensions continue to threaten memory supply chain

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.
July 3, 2019
IBM Q

Roadmapping the quantum realm

The US Quantum Economic Development Consortium is looking to stimulate a supply chain and technology infrastructure for quantum computing, with more about its efforts due to come out in the next few days.