Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced support for the TSMC interoperable process design kit (iPDK) in the Mentor® Custom IC design flow products. This support gives companies using TSMC process technology the freedom to choose best-in-class tools such as the IC Station® tool without the encumbrance of proprietary PDK files, and results in shortened [...]

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that it has expanded the set of Mentor tools and technologies included in TSMC Reference Flow 10.0. The expanded Mentor® track supports advanced functional verification for complex ICs, netlist-to-GDSII implementation for 28nm ICs, tighter integration with the ubiquitous Calibre® physical verification and DFM platform, and tools for layout [...]

Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) today announced that Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited have selected Mentor Graphics’ Questa® advanced functional verification platform, to deploy their next generation functional verification environment based on the Open Verification Methodology (OVM). With Fujitsu’s preference for open standards, the OVM provides the ideal means to ensure the highest levels of [...]

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) today announced an extension of its university program to the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi (TU Iasi) in Romania. Under the auspices of the company’s Higher Education Program (HEP), Mentor Graphics is supporting a new microelectronics development laboratory equipped by semiconductor supplier Infineon Technologies by donating more than $20M worth [...]

International Test Conference 2008
Teseda Corporation, a leading silicon validation and failure analysis diagnostic company, announced today that they have partnered with Mentor Graphics to link Mentor Graphic’s YieldAssist toolset with the Teseda Diagnostic Environment. This new capability will provide Teseda and Mentor customers with an integrated and truly layout-aware roundtrip flow that will accelerate [...]

Among First in Industry to Adopt MCAPI to Implement Distributed Services in Multicore Platforms
VirtualLogix™, Inc. today announced VLX real-time virtualization software support for the Multicore Association’s recently approved specification for Multicore Communications API (MCAPI).
MCAPI has been defined to flexibly support hundreds of processor cores and systems with tight memory constraints, fast task execution [...]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced an agreement to jointly develop and distribute next-generation computational lithography (CL) software solutions to enhance the imaging capability of lithographic systems used in the manufacturing of integrated circuits at the 22 nanometer (nm) node and beyond. The agreement is part of IBM’s computation scaling [...]

Company leverages patented picoPIPE™ acceleration technology to deliver the world’s fastest FPGA, capable of 1.5 GHz peak performance.
First device in the Speedster™ family embeds 20 lanes of 10.3 Gbps SerDes and four independent 1066 Mbps DDR2/DDR3 controllers.
Speedster uses familiar LUT-based fabric and standard synthesis and simulation tools so designers can use their existing RTL.
Signaling [...]

Serge Hustin From ST Joins Board as New Director, Other Officers Continue Present Roles
-The Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), an independent non-profit organization dedicated to defining and advancing SystemC™, today announced Ken Tallo as the elected Chairman, succeeding ST’s Alain Clouard. In addition, Serge Hustin of ST joined as a Director. No other changes were [...]

Top Keynote and Panelists Poised for Open-Door PDCE Event
Portable Design Conference & Exhibition
The second annual Portable Design Conference & Exhibition (PDCE ’08) returns to Silicon Valley on September 18, bringing together leading experts to address the most pressing design issues in the electronics industry’s hottest segment. Hosted by Portable Design magazine, PDCE ’08 — a [...]