The Week In Review: Design


M&A Siemens closed the acquisition of Mentor Graphics, making Mentor now part of Siemens' product lifecycle management (PLM) software business. The $4.5 billion deal, announced last November, brings Siemens into the IC design tool and embedded software markets and expands Siemens' multi-physics and electronic simulation capabilities in the growing digital twin space, which ties together ... » read more

Blog Review: March 29


In a video, Cadence's Megha Daga introduces how convolutional neural networks identify objects and the wide range of applications for the technology. Mentor's Ron Press proposes a way to take advantage of hierarchical DFT features, even if a design wasn't designed for it. Synopsys' Robert Vamosi shares highlights of the RAND Corporation's extensive report examining zero day vulnerabilitie... » read more

The Week In Review: Design


Tools Aldec uncorked its TySOM embedded development kit, which includes Riviera-PRO mixed-HDL language simulation for VHDL 2008/Verilog 2005, a Xilinx Zynq-based development board and pre-validated Ubuntu Embedded Host reference designs and tutorials. Mentor Graphics introduced the first phase of its new Xpedition PCB design flow with technologies for design and verification of rigid and ... » read more