Embedded World 2017 preview: Mentor Graphics
Three Mentor divisions – Embedded, PADS and Tanner EDA – will present their latest innovations during the conference and exhibition in Nuremberg next week.
Tech Design Forum Briefing
Briefing Authors
Paul Dempsey
Paul Dempsey 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.
Luke Collins
Luke Collins is a freelance technology journalist with 22 years’ experience. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronics Times in the UK, and co-founded the IP9x series of conferences.
Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards has spent two decades covering electronics and EDA. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Engineering Times UK and electronics editor of the IET's Engineering & Technology.
How formal concentrates ISO 26262 fault analysis
Formal enables substantial fault pruning and more definitive fault injection for ISO 26262 using techniques such as sequential logic equivalence checking.
Cadence tunes up simulators and FPGA prototyping
Cadence has reworked two parts of its verification suite to streamline the use of multicore computers for simulation and FPGA-based prototyping systems.
Ceva DSP multiplies execution units for MIMO 5G
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Streamlining analog fault simulation
Analog fault simulation times have barely fallen for two decades but that is beginning to change.
Xilinx to bring analog conversion onto finFET FPGAs
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Mentor launches new Strato emulation platform
StratoM hardware has 2.5B-gate capacity and can scale to 15B gates. Throughput claimed at 5X faster than earlier Veloce generation.
DVCon US 2017 preview: Mentor Graphics
The major verification conference is looming and Mentor’s participation will include tutorials that explore the latest in portable stimulus, SystemC, VIP and more.
Software brings secure IDs to almost any device
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Microsemi takes flash FPGAs to 28nm
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