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Mentor Graphics is working on technology to analyse the effects of mechanical stress on integrated circuits, describing progress at the company's U2U conference.

UltraSoC has added the ability to employ a USB 2.0 port instead of JTAG as the main debug access point on SoCs that use the company’s UltraDebug technology.

The Design Automation Conference in San Francisco this year will again feature a day of half-day training courses provided by Doulos on Thursday, June 11 .

Cadence has launched a processor core aimed at ‘always on’ signal-processing applications such as voice detection and recognition for wearables.

Mentor Graphics has launched Calibre xACT, a tool that uses deterministic algorithms to extract parasitics from complex finFET and other nanometer processes.

Designers will need to take crime into account as part of their design signoff process, Wally Rhines argued in his keynote at Mentor Graphics' U2U San Jose 2015 conference.

Cadence Design Systems has added five products to its OrCAD line of PCB-design tools that cover manufacturability, signal integrity and management, and introduced three feature updates.

IoT-themed keynotes from Mentor's Wally Rhines and Qualcomm's Karim Arabi headline vendor's User2User conference on April 21.

Flow draws on existing strengths in Xpedition, Valor, Nimbic and Flotherm among others to optimize 3D design projects and improve cross-disciplinary communication.

ARM and Cadence have signed a deal that provides the IP teams at both companies with access to each other's cores.