IC Manage expands big-data work
IC Manage is expanding its work on big data in EDA with the creation of a labs program that aims to work with clients on novel ideas for analyzing the gigabytes of output from chip-design tools.
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Cliosoft aims to bring cooperation to design management
Cliosoft sees a merging of social features and design-data repositories as driving more efficient reuse in chipmakers, bringing them together in its recently launched DesignHub product line.
DAC 2017 preview: OneSpin
Formal, AI and UVM form key parts of the OneSpin agenda for this year's Design Automation Conference.
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.
Matlab links up with Virtuoso for circuit analytics
Cadence Design Systems and The Mathworks have implemented the first phase of an integration program to link tools such as Virtuoso ADE to Matlab.
Three key ways to reduce silicon test costs
Mentor's Greg Aldrich describes how test's market leader is driving down cost in the billion-gate era by rethinking and extending existing technologies
Flow exploration key to finFET network processor implementation
Flow exploration helps designers establish best approach to advanced network processor implementation on Samsung finFET process
Data mining tools trawl for IC icebergs
Dassault Systèmes and IC Manage have each developed "big data" mining software tools to track the progress of chip-design projects
Data and documentation focus for Orcad PCB additions
Cadence Design Systems has made three additions to its OrCAD line of PCB tools, largely aimed at data management and organization for projects.
Mentor’s latest for Xpedition PCB upgrades the ante in data transfer
New data transfer standard challenges IPC-2581 and extends Mentor's own ODB++.