Siemens agrees deal to buy Mentor Graphics
German industrial conglomerate to pay $4.5B to extend its PLM division into electronic chip and systems design.
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ARM TechCon: Mentor Graphics preview
Catch up with the vendor's plans for the ARM technical conference in Santa Clara later this month.
Mentor’s PADS family extended for AMS, DDR and electrical DRC
Mentor Graphics has added four new units to its PADS PCB family addressing increasing complexity in mainstream design.
NXP readies single package solution for 77GHz radar
NXP discusses second silicon flavor for automotive radar, after earlier launch of postage-stamp devices.
Samsung taps Mentor for Closed-Loop DFM
Samsung Foundry has adapted Mentor's DFM and test tools in a system that can produce a 10% increase in yield across all nodes.
Computex 2016: Microsoft makes play to be the VR OS
Microsoft has launched an OEM version of the Windows Holographic platform it has developed for its own AR headset, the HoloLens.
Mentor integrates automotive IGBT test and simulation
A new dedicated automotive power tester helps cut simulation errors to just 0.5% with more faithful calibration.
User2User preview: Silicon Valley edition rolls out this month
Companies presenting at User2User Santa Clara on April 26 include AMD, Microsoft, nVidia, Oracle, Qualcomm, and Samsung.
SNUG 2016: Aart de Geus looks beyond the linear design flow
Do the synapses in the human brain offer a new model for the design flow in a Smart Everything world?
SNUG 2016: Intel, TSMC, GloFo back post-finFET research at UC Berkeley
But project lead Chenming Hu, 'finFET's father', has also highlighted important changes in the funding landscape for university research.