Mentor Graphics announced that it has joined GLOBALFOUNDRIES' FDXcelerator Partner Program. FDXcelerator program partners support customers of GLOBALFOUNDRIES FDX™ technologies by providing a variety of design solutions, including approved design methodology, IP development expertise, hardware/software system integration expertise, and other critical software, services, and support.

Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced that Toyota Motor Corporation has approved its Volcano VSTAR AUTOSAR basic software stack for use in all Toyota vehicles. With this approval, global Tier 1 automotive suppliers can now leverage Mentor’s fast, resource-efficient AUTOSAR stack for the design and development of advanced Electronic Control Units (ECUs) in next-gen Toyota models.

It has been announced that Mentor Graphics Corporation's FloEFD Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology was used to improve the performance of the racecar driven by Anthony Kumpen of Belgium, who was crowned the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series Champion this month. 

A version of Mentor Graphics Corporation's frontloading Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) FloEFD product targeting complex design challenges has been announced. Frontloading CFD refers to the practice of moving CFD simulation early into the design process, enabling design engineers to examine and evaluate design options, resulting in optimised product performance and reliability. 

  A multi-year license agreement has been signed between Mentor Graphics Corporation and ARM to gain early access to a range of ARM Fast Models, Cycle Models and related technologies. 

The ability to measure the defect coverage of any test applied to an analogue or mixed-signal circuit is now achievable with Mentor Graphics’ Tessent DefectSim product. It improves the quality and reliability of analogue and mixed-signal circuits through the selection of more effective tests and reduces the cost of test by showing which tests do not increase coverage.

A joint engineering and marketing agreement has been announced by Mentor Graphics Corporation and Telemotive AG. The heart of the agreement will be the integration of Mentor’s Volcano VSTAR AUTOSAR stack with Telemotive’s Power Line Communication (PLC).

Everything you see in modern electronics is a system and these are often part of a system of systems. However, as technology has advanced these systems have become increasingly complex – leading to integration issues between different systems. Electronic Specifier Editor Joe Bush talks to David Wiens, Xpedition Product Manager, Board Systems Division, Mentor Graphics, about these problems and how the company’s Xpedition offering can p...

The integration of the Questa Verification Solution from Mentor Graphics Corporation with the Jenkins Continuous Integration and Source Code Management (CI/SCM) ecosystem has been announced. As a result, Mentor Graphics Questa users are now able to manage and control regressions running Questa Formal and Questa Simulation tools from within the Jenkins dashboard. 

The qualified Calibre PERC reliability rule decks from United Microelectronics (UMC) for their 28nm technology are now available it has been announced by Mentor Graphics. Customers of UMC can now extend their use of Mentor-based flows to incorporate advanced electrical reliability analysis that evaluates a variety of Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection features.

To predict the future of the semiconductor market, Mentor Graphics has utilised the Gompertz Curve, a mathematical model, to better understand product demand, after a history of highly inaccurate forecasts produced by outside sources, which not only disrupts market understanding and planning, but also is a serious problem for investors.

Mentor Graphics, Northwest Logic and Krivi Semiconductor announced the availability of a complete DDR4 SDRAM IP design and verification solution that enables ASIC and FPGA design teams to quickly design and verify DDR4 memory subsystems in the Mentor Graphics IP Partnership Program. Together, Mentor Graphics, Northwest Logic, and Krivi Semiconductor enable customers to reduce time-to-market by a factor of 2X by integrating complementary design an...

Mentor Graphics announced it has joined the Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE) program and the General Motors and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored EcoCAR 3 program. The move is part of Mentor Automotive’s ongoing effort to accelerate productivity of automotive engineering R&D efforts, from OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to many of the world’s leading automotive engineering universities.

Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced that Siemens Building Technologies has deployed Mentor’s SystemVision product to Siemens PCB (Printed Circuit Board) design teams around the world, providing an upfront, mechatronic simulation environment and a qualified, central library for the Mentor Graphics Xpedition Enterprise PCB design flow.

Further enhancements and optimisations for various products within the Calibre Platform was announced by Mentor Graphics Corp, and AFS (Analogue FastSPICE) Platform, as well as the completion of further certifications and reference flows for TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation) 16FFC FinFET and 7nm FinFET processes.

Mentor Graphics announced that the Veloce emulation platform was successfully used by Starblaze Technology for a specialised high-speed, enterprise-based SSD storage design. Starblaze performed a detailed and lengthy analysis of the available solutions in the emulation market. The Veloce emulation platform was selected and deployed because of its superior virtualisation technology and memory protocol support, rich software debug capabilities...

The first phase of the Xpedition PCB flow to address the increasing complexity of today’s advanced systems designs has been announced by Mentor Graphics Corporation. The increasing densities of electronics products are forcing companies to develop highly compact system designs with more functionality, and at lower costs. 

An Electronic Manufacturing Service (EMS) company based in Mysore, India, Kaynes Technology has selected Mentor Graphics to provide a complete design-to-manufacturing solution comprising Mentor Graphics Xpedition Enterprise, HyperLynx, Valor Process Preparation, Valor NPI and Valor Parts Library products.

The Verification Academy from Mentor Graphics has been added to, with a new SystemVerilog course and Patterns Library that together help verification engineers increase their expertise, productivity and design quality.

Mentor Graphics has announced that the Veloce emulation platform was successfully used by Barefoot Networks, a pioneer in building user-programmable and high-performance network switches, to verify its 6.5Tb/s Tofino switch. Barefoot chose the Veloce emulation platform for its high capacity, superior virtualisation technology, remote access option and proven track record in networking design verification.