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.
August 1, 2018

Mentor as a maturing Siemens business: 1. Acquisitions

Mentor has added three companies since its acquisition a little over a year ago - and there's method to this buying spree.
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July 20, 2018

Why the time has come for cloud-based emulation

Mentor has untethered its Veloce platform online because it feels more designs need emulation and the cloud can now support it.
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June 22, 2018

Mentor strikes deal to buy Austemper

Deal to buy functional safety specialist builds out the automotive and Industry 4.0 offerings for Mentor and its parent Siemens.
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June 19, 2018

Mentor targets DRC efficiencies for place-and-route with Calibre RealTime Digital

Early users of the new P&R integrated physical verification tool say time-to-sign-off was cut by 40% and above.
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April 20, 2018

SEMI-ESDA tie-up aims to extend EDA’s global reach

Cooperation in key verticals such as automotive and changes for DAC as well as global conference outreach underpin EDA association's move.
February 13, 2018

HyperLynx update automates SerDes validation

Simulation suite automates the largely manual process of validating more than 25 SerDes protocols.
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December 22, 2017

Toward the ISO26262 update: Still fighting an old war?

A new version of automotive safety standard ISO 26262 is due in 2018 but how close to Level 5 autonomy will it actually take us? And what about security?
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November 21, 2017

Siemens builds Mentor AMS offering with Solido buy

Solido acquisition will also add further machine learning expertise to Mentor's capabilities.
June 1, 2017

DAC 2017 preview: Mentor

Mentor, a Siemens business, has released details on its varied activities at DAC 2017, ranging from panels to technical papers.
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May 30, 2017

How Mentor realized concurrent engineering for PCB design

The vendor's experiences in enabling concurrent engineering in Xpedition Enterprise contain lessons for all design disciplines.