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.
February 15, 2019

China Focus 1: Wally Rhines maps startup and design growth

In the first of a weekly series on China's evolving design sector, we look at how the Mentor President and CEO identifies some of the key drivers.
January 31, 2019

Creating a $4B market for silicon photonics

It's been a long time coming, but silicon photonics is now entering commercial design for networking and grabbing attention in autonomous driving and sensors.
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December 28, 2018

Why Mentor backs the PSS-DSL input format for the Portable Stimulus Specification

With PSS moving toward greater adoption, the Siemens vendor seems PSS-DSL as a winner in terms of conciseness and ease-of-adoption.
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November 15, 2018

Xpedition updated for schematic verification and DFT

Mentor's flagship PCB suite is aiming to offer another 'shift left' in verification as respins rise.
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November 14, 2018

Case study: Achieving earlier signoff convergence and a ‘shift left’ for P&R at Qualcomm

Qualcomm has described its use of Calibre RealTime Digital to enhance its P&R flow.
November 7, 2018

Symphony raises crescendo for AMS simulation

Mentor's updated AMS platform claims performance boost by obviating 'legacy' technology.
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October 17, 2018

FPGA playing verification catch-up as bugs escape

The latest Mentor-commissioned Wilson Research Group study on ASIC and FPGA verification highlights technique adoption and maturity.
September 12, 2018

Mentor automates silicon photonics layout

The LightSuite Compiler produces designs based on Python descriptions and certifies them DRC-clean through hooks into the market-leading Calibre DFM suite.
August 10, 2018

Mentor as an evolving Siemens business: 3. Tanner EDA

Tanner's focus on AMS, MEMS and, now, the IoT-edge are making it even more ripe for integration with other Mentor tools.
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August 2, 2018

Mentor as a maturing Siemens business: 2. Foundations

How are Siemens' internal investments in Mentor to fuel innovation and integration stacking up alongside the boost it has given for M&A?
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