May 29, 2012
The partnership's 3.1 specification is open for review, with performance enhancements and alignment to Accellera's IP-XACT for metadata
May 22, 2012
Guest blogger Jeff Wilson discusses some of the subtleties involved in the effective use of dummy fill in deep sub-micron IC designs.
April 25, 2012
Cutting the cabling to simplify the emulation process.
April 17, 2012
SpringSoft is trying a different approach to constraint-based design in a bid to improve the automation of custom and mixed-signal design, particularly on advanced process nodes.
April 13, 2012
Mentor Graphics' CEO Wally Rhines picked out the trends he says can boost design productivity and drive growth for tools vendors at the company's Silicon Valley User2User conference
April 2, 2012
The specialist AMS foundry Triad Semiconductor has married its ViaASIC drag and drop libraries to Mentor Graphics' SystemVision design environment.
March 28, 2012
Companies need to collaborate with partners, vendors, and the rest of the supply chain if they are to achieve critical mass, Aart de Geus tells Synopsys user meeting.
March 26, 2012
At the SNUG event this week, Synopsys is taking the wraps off its plans to support 3DIC, with updates to tools for physical design and verification.
March 22, 2012
This looks more like 2.5D silicon interposer-based technology to us, though it is a major and necessary advance
March 16, 2012
This page brings together all of our coverage from Design Automation and Test in Europe 2012 in Dresden, Germany.