Mentor has announced it is working closely with Arm to leverage their own 64-bit Arm Neoverse-based server platform to run electronic design automation (EDA) software for the design of next-generation Arm-based processors. As part of this effort, Mentor is also announcing availability of its Questa simulation tools optimised to run on the platform, either in cloud-based environments or as part of an on-premise parallel regression grid.

It has been announced by Mentor, a Siemens business that the Xpedition and PADS Professional printed circuit board design (PCB) design flows, including the Valor NPI and HyperLynx family of products, have each achieved ISO 26262 functional safety compliance.

Mentor has announced that Samsung Electronics has certified the Mentor Tessent products for Samsung Foundry’s 8nm LPP (Low Power Plus) process. These tools provide dramatic design and test time improvements for very large designs targeting markets such as mobile communications, high speed network/server computing, cryptocurrency, and autonomous driving.

Mentor has partnered with SamacSys to provide free PCB symbols, footprints and 3D models from within PartQuest, Mentor’s online platform for finding component information. The SamacSys CAD library content saves companies the time-consuming task of library part creation. SamacSys has been selected to provide high-quality CAD models for Mentor’s PADS, xDX Designer and Xpedition PCB design solutions.

To meet stringent verification requirements for both the hardware and software components of its automotive chip platforms, Infineon Technologies is using the Veloce emulation platform from Mentor Graphics. 

Mentor has helped China Euro Vehicle Technology AB (CEVT) dramatically speed and simplify the design of its sophisticated, next-gen in-vehicle networks. Combining Mentor’s Volcano VSA COM Designer network design tool with SystemWeaver information management tools from Systemite AB, CEVT has replaced time-consuming manual tasks with a fully automated process, resulting in a 50% time reduction in the design and verification of end-solutions.

Mentor has announced that independent compliance firm SGS-TÜV Saar has certified the ISO 26262 compliance of tool qualification reports for key software elements of its Veloce Strato emulation platform.

Mentor has further expanded its Mentor Safe functional safety assurance programme by qualifying the ISO 26262 compliance of documentation for its Oasys-RTL Physical RTL Synthesis, Nitro-SoC Place and Route, and FormalPro Logic Equivalency Checker products.

Mentor has announced that Silicon Creations, a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP), has selected Mentor software for circuit, functional, and physical verification of its complex pre-layout and post-layout analog and mixed-signal IP. Silicon Creations is using the Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Platform, the Questa Verification Solution, and the Calibre family of products to verify their silicon IP port...

Mentor just announced the call-for-entries of its 27th annual Technology Leadership Awards (TLA) competition, continuing its tradition of recognizing excellence in printed circuit board (PCB) design. Started in 1988, this program is the longest running competition of its kind in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry.

Mentor Graphics has introduced the DRS360 platform – a comprehensive automated driving solution featuring breakthrough technology that captures, fuses and utilises raw data in real time from a wide range of sensing modalities, including radar, LIDAR, vision and other sensors.

Mentor Graphics has announced that TSMC has certified the Calibre Platform (Calibre nmDRC, Calibre Multi-Patterning, Calibre nmLVS, Calibre YieldEnhancer with SmartFill, and Calibre xACT tools), as well as the Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Circuit Verification Platform, for the most current version of the 12FFC process.

Mentor Graphics has announced that independent compliance firm SGS-TÜV Saar has certified the ISO 26262 compliance of Mentor’s Software Tool Qualification Report for its Questa Simulation, Verification Management and Clock-Domain Crossing (CDC) products.

Mentor Graphics has further expanded its Mentor Safe functional safety assurance program with the addition of ReqTracer, an industry-standard line of software tools for requirements management and tracking. Achieving the highest possible tool confidence level as a standalone tool, ReqTracer is now qualified for use in safety-critical ISO 26262 designs and verification flows at all criticality levels up to and including ASIL D.

Mentor Graphics announced the Veloce Strato emulation platform. The Veloce Strato platform is Mentor’s third generation data-centre friendly emulation platform, and the only emulation platform on the market with full scalability across both software and hardware. As part of the announcement, Mentor is launching the Veloce StratoM high-capacity emulator and Veloce Strato OS enterprise-level operating system.

Mentor Graphics has announced that Phoenix Contact has adopted the Mentor Graphics Valor IoT Manufacturing solution for factory automation. Phoenix Contact manufactures over 60,000 products and serves more than 100 countries. They selected the Valor IoT Manufacturing and Valor MSS products for their manufacturing processes to help achieve zero-defect operational results.

Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced that its Tessent DefectSim product was awarded 2016 Product of the Year by Electronic Products magazine. This award is presented for a product launched in 2016 that represents innovative design and advancement in technology, as determined by the editors of the publication.

According to a study jointly carried out by Mentor Graphics and Wilson Research Group in 2014, at least one percent of bugs escape to silicon level, and that underscores the critical importance of post-silicon validation. Moreover, there simply aren’t enough verification cycles to find bugs that pass the pre-silicon phase.

A broad and comprehensive ISO 26262 qualification programme has been introduced by Mentor Graphics Corporation, Mentor Safe. The programme includes the Nucleus SafetyCert real time operating system, the Volcano VSTAR AUTOSAR operating system and BSW stack, and a growing array of ISO 26262 certified documentation and qualification reports for Mentor tools supporting design and verification of System-on-Chip (SoC), system, mechanical...

Mentor Graphics announced that TSMC has extended its collaboration with Mentor Graphics on the Xpedition Enterprise platform in conjunction with the Calibre platform for the design and verification of TSMC’s InFO (Integrated Fan-Out) packaging technology for multi-chip and chip-DRAM integration applications. Mentor developed new Xpedition functionality specifically to support InFO and enable the IC package designer to complete design tasks ...