EDA

Mentor Graphics has added four new units to its PADS PCB family addressing increasing complexity in mainstream design.

Electrical analysis facility does RC extraction on virtual fab models, accelerating the availability of early PDKs for new processes

Design for test could look quite different in five years' time compared to the situation designers have today as chipmakers wrestle with the problems of yield control, safety, and aging.

Ausdia has launched a product intended to reconcile the multiple sets of timing constraints needed for operating and test modes so that a consistent group of constraints can be fed to implementation tools.

ARM aims to recruit more startups to develop IoT SoCs around the Cortex-M0 with design-house network and easier access to EDA tools.

Startup launches an analog-circuit migration and optimization tool that uses less simulation time than traditional approaches the company claims.

Menta SAS has launched an embedded FPGA core family that improves density over previous versions.

Concept Engineering is introducing a version of its Nlview family of automatic schematic generation products that runs inside a standard web browser.

Samsung Foundry has adapted Mentor's DFM and test tools in a system that can produce a 10% increase in yield across all nodes.

Meridian Constraints update seeks to extend existing capabilities and address a gap not covered by other functional verification tools.