Author Archives: TDF Staff

June 18, 2018

DAC 2018 preview: Verific

The parser specialist will demonstrate its recently announced INVIO integration to speed development around VHDL and SystemVerilog.
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May 24, 2018

Case study demonstrates 59% extra power savings for HPC

Taiwanese ASIC specialist Alchip discusses use of Mentor PowerPro for low power on 16nm 24x24 array HPC chip in detail
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May 2, 2018

User2User Silicon Valley rolls out later this month

Mentor's west coast user conference will take place in Santa Clara on May 15. Attendance is free-of-charge.
April 26, 2018

Combining tools and services for evolving automotive design flows

Automotive companies need to partner closely with tool suppliers as design processes are disrupted by new technologies.
April 25, 2018

Anne Cirkel recognized for advancing role of women in electronics design

Mentor executive, former Design Automation Conference chair and Tech Design Forum journal founder to receive Marie R. Pistilli Award at DAC 2018.
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April 12, 2018

Free formal verification primer offered by Synopsys

Free e-book offers an introduction to formal verification methods for those who may be curious about the technique, or who need to understand its advantages and limitations in order to manage its use effectively.
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April 10, 2018

Control test point counts for ISO 26262

The automotive safety standard targets 90% in-system test coverage. VersaPoint technology helps to simplify reaching your target.
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April 5, 2018

Leti releases photonics design kit for Synopsys PhoeniX OptoDesigner suite

PDK enables photonics prototyping on MPW runs and compatibility with volume production at STMicroelectronics at Crolles.
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April 5, 2018

Mentor aims to grow emulation with lower gate-count hardware

Strato emulator family adds modular boxes that can build from 640K and 1.25B gate-counts for automotive, mil/aero markets and 'digital twin' strategies.
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March 23, 2018

Layout schema generation speeds early-stage yield learning

LSG generates random design-like test vehicles to enable more detailed pre-ramp analysis for incoming nodes.