EDA

SEMI and the Design Automation Conference (DAC) have agreed to schedule the the US event for EDA alongside Semicon West in 2020 and 2021.

Analyst Rich Valera points to China as a major source of EDA tool growth despite short-term tensions with the US government.

Synopsys has released PrimeYield, a tool for analysing and optimizing the yield of a design before it is made.

Cadence has developed a version of its Protium prototyping engine that supports larger designs and which is intended to go into data-center racks.

OneSpin is bringing recent product launches to DAC and will have technical experts presenting within the conference's Designer Track.

Design-for-test can no longer be left until the gate level for increasingly sensitive designs aimed at newer processes.

The formal specialist is extending its line for Intel FPGAs that target areas such as AI/ML and HPC, and building out a RISC-V suite focused on ISA compliance.

The company will highlight features within its Trek suite that comply with but then go beyond the capabilities of the Portable Stimulus Standard.

Mentor takes the wraps off new machine learning fueled features in its HLS and physical design families ahead of DAC 2019.

Siemens' new automotive platform commercializes and illustrates the company's ongoing integration of Mentor EDA products within its digital twin concept.