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September 12, 2018

Mentor automates silicon photonics layout

The LightSuite Compiler produces designs based on Python descriptions and certifies them DRC-clean through hooks into the market-leading Calibre DFM suite.
August 16, 2018

IBM and Synopsys to apply DTCO to post-finFET process development

Collaboration on DTCO offers IBM a better way to evaluate combinations of transistor architectures, materials and other process technology innovations using design metrics, before real wafers become available for physical experimentation.
August 10, 2018

Mentor as an evolving Siemens business: 3. Tanner EDA

Tanner's focus on AMS, MEMS and, now, the IoT-edge are making it even more ripe for integration with other Mentor tools.
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August 2, 2018

Mentor as a maturing Siemens business: 2. Foundations

How are Siemens' internal investments in Mentor to fuel innovation and integration stacking up alongside the boost it has given for M&A?
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August 1, 2018

Mentor as a maturing Siemens business: 1. Acquisitions

Mentor has added three companies since its acquisition a little over a year ago - and there's method to this buying spree.
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July 30, 2018

56G Ethernet IP to enable leaf-spine hyperscale data centres

Faster PHYs needed to shift vast amounts of data around giant data centres.
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July 30, 2018

Synopsys catalogues AI IP

The rapid growth of interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence has prompted Synopsys to bring all its AI IP together in a microsite and brochure.
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July 30, 2018

HLS speeds up IP deployment at FotoNation

IP supplier FotoNation has decided to embrace the use of high-level synthesis in the creation of cores for smartphones and other high-integration, low-power systems.
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July 27, 2018

Verification engineers embrace emulation for the shift left

In a panel session at June's DAC, Synopsys customers talked about some of the ways they make verification more efficient and bring technologies such as formal, emulation, and simulation together.
July 20, 2018

Why the time has come for cloud-based emulation

Mentor has untethered its Veloce platform online because it feels more designs need emulation and the cloud can now support it.
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