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Chip foundry X-Fab has announced a reference design kit for its XH018 180nm modular mixed-signal high-voltage CMOS process and Siemens’ Tanner analogue and mixed-signal (AMS) EDA software. “The kit is based on silicon-proven circuitry, providing coverage of the flow to design and simulate analogue and mixed-signal ICs,” according to X-Fab which “provides its customers reference design flows based on its established ...

Since its acquisition in 2017, EDA software company, Mentor, has styled itself ‘Mentor, a Siemens company’. From January, 2021, it will change its name to Siemens EDA. Announcing the name change, Joe Sawicki, executive vice president of IC-EDA, Siemens EDA (pictured), said that the name brings EDA software, simulation, mechanical design, manufacturing, cloud, IoT and low code technology under a ...

At its virtual conference yesterday – GTC2020 –  GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced an enhanced design for manufacturability (DFM) kit embedded with advanced machine learning (ML) capabilities. Developed in collaboration with Mentor the ML-enhanced DFM solution, built on Mentor’s Calibre nmDRC platform, can provide customers with a more effective design and development experience and contribute to a faster time to market. The ML-enhanced ...

Radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs) are at the heart of a wide variety of today’s applications and services, including wireless local area networks (LANs), cellular communications, global positioning systems (GPS), automotive electronics, and Internet of Things (IoT), writes Neel Natekar of Mentor, a Siemens Business. Introduction With recent advancements in process technology, such as the development of high resistivity ...

With any new SoC project, there are more things to go wrong than ever imagined during the optimistic early phase of defining the product, writes Ron Press, of Mentor, a Siemens Business. However, the semiconductor industry continues to deliver incredible advances in IC capabilities. The most successful companies continually refine and optimize all aspects of chip design and fabrication, including ...

Mentor Graphics, now a Siemens subsidiary, has joined the O-RAN Alliance promoting interoperable 5G equipment standards. Mentor will focus on verification and validation requirements for open standards-based, highly-configurable network development. “While there are many challenges to building the products that comprise 5G networks, testing is the key to success,” says Mentor’s Joe Sawicki (pictured), “Mentor’s comprehensive silicon verification flow is ...

The promise of autonomous vehicles is driving profound changes in the design and testing of automotive semiconductor parts, writes Lee Harrison, Automotive IC Test Solutions Manager, Tessent Group – Mentor, a Siemens Business. Automotive ICs are increasingly developed and manufactured using cutting-edge processes. These devices are no longer only deployed for simple functions like controlling windows or light signaling but ...

Q4 EDA revenues rose 2.2% y-o-y to $2.626 billion, according to the Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance Market Statistics Service (MSS). Q4 2018 revenues were $2.57 billion. Full year 2019 revenues were $10.2 billion which was 8.3% up on 2018. “The EDA industry reported increased revenue in Q4 compared to Q4 2018, in part due to strong growth in Europe, ...

Mentor is addressing the functional safety requirements of ICs in autonomous vehicles with an initiative called ‘Tessent Safety Ecosystem’ which links the firm’s own functional safety tools, including those acquired when it bought Austemper, to those from external partners – notably Arm through its Functional Safety Partnership Program. At the same time, it announced a related tool – for adding fast ...

Q1 EDA  revenue was up  16.3% y-o-y at $2.6 billion, says to the Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance. “The EDA industry overall reported double digit increased revenue in Q1 compared to Q1 2018, with all categories, except services, reporting double digit increases,” says Wally Rhines (pictured) CEO Emeritus of Mentor and a member of the ESD Alliance Governing Council. “Geographically, ...