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.
Cadence Design Systems
Cadence maps out safety plan for semiconductor-design tools
Cadence Design Systems is nearing completion of a program that will provide a portfolio of documentation for users of its tools who need to obtain safety approvals for their designs.
Cadence packages VIP for ten protocols
Cadence Design Systems has released a set of ten verification IP packages intended to support a new crop of standard protocols.
Cadence building photonics environment around Virtuoso
Cadence is creating a flow that the company believes will make it possible to bring greater predictability to photonics design.
Cadence adds floating point to Fusion
Cadence Design Systems has added floating-point to its latest core intended for embedded signal processing.
ARM recruits design houses and tools for quicker IoT projects
ARM aims to recruit more startups to develop IoT SoCs around the Cortex-M0 with design-house network and easier access to EDA tools.
Allegro release tackles new generations of PCB
The latest release of Cadence's Allegro deals with flex PCBs, material inlays as well as tighter links to signal integrity.
Cadence boosts MAC count for neural networks
Cadence Design Systems has increased the throughput of its vision-oriented DSP family to cater for deep-learning applications.
Cadence moves into safer design with Virtuoso changes
Cadence Design Systems has made additions to its Virtuoso mixed-signal design environment intended to improve design for manufacture and the ability of teams to create and test safety-critical systems.
MEMS contest launches at DATE
The DATE 2016 conference saw the launch of a competition to encourage novel designs using MEMS technology.