EDA learns to love AI
Machine learning is gradually moving into implementation and verification tools for EDA.
Siemens EDA
Mentor strikes deal to buy Austemper
Deal to buy functional safety specialist builds out the automotive and Industry 4.0 offerings for Mentor and its parent Siemens.
Mentor targets DRC efficiencies for place-and-route with Calibre RealTime Digital
Early users of the new P&R integrated physical verification tool say time-to-sign-off was cut by 40% and above.
Case study demonstrates 59% extra power savings for HPC
Taiwanese ASIC specialist Alchip discusses use of Mentor PowerPro for low power on 16nm 24x24 array HPC chip in detail
User2User Silicon Valley rolls out later this month
Mentor's west coast user conference will take place in Santa Clara on May 15. Attendance is free-of-charge.
Combining tools and services for evolving automotive design flows
Automotive companies need to partner closely with tool suppliers as design processes are disrupted by new technologies.
Anne Cirkel recognized for advancing role of women in electronics design
Mentor executive, former Design Automation Conference chair and Tech Design Forum journal founder to receive Marie R. Pistilli Award at DAC 2018.
Control test point counts for ISO 26262
The automotive safety standard targets 90% in-system test coverage. VersaPoint technology helps to simplify reaching your target.
Mentor aims to grow emulation with lower gate-count hardware
Strato emulator family adds modular boxes that can build from 640K and 1.25B gate-counts for automotive, mil/aero markets and 'digital twin' strategies.
Layout schema generation speeds early-stage yield learning
LSG generates random design-like test vehicles to enable more detailed pre-ramp analysis for incoming nodes.