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Mentor Graphics' user event includes insights on constraints-driven design and the emerging OVM verification methodology in an eye-catching program.

Cutting the cabling to simplify the emulation process.

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.

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

Subtle data correlation and analysis techniques are helping to relate logic failures to particular types of manufacturing defect.

Qualcomm's director of engineering is among the panelists at the upcoming U2U event in Santa Clara who will look at the state of play for 3DICs and how design flows are bearing up to dealing with 3D integration.

The specialist AMS foundry Triad Semiconductor has married its ViaASIC drag and drop libraries to Mentor Graphics' SystemVision design environment.

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.

The Yocto Project brings the 'ecosystem' concept to embedded Linux and the tool vendor's launch builds that idea out nicely.

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.