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December 8, 2010

Webinar on Accelerating Analog Layout Productivity

Webinar on Accelerating Analog Layout Productivity
by Daniel Payne on 12-08-2010 at 11:58 pm
Categories: EDA, Tanner EDA

MONROVIA, California – December 7, 2010 – With pressure to reduce time to market and with resources increasingly constrained, tools that can enable maximum productivity for analog and mixed-signal design are mission-critical. Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal… Read More

November 26, 2010

Tanner EDA Then and Now

Tanner EDA Then and Now
by Daniel Payne on 11-26-2010 at 9:44 pm
Categories: EDA, Tanner EDA

Looking back at an early issue of a Tanner Research newsletter, “Tanner Tools News”, from the mid-1990s, the theme at that time was growth, just as it is again now for Tanner EDA. At that time we were averaging 66% revenue growth per year, enjoying rapid growth as a small start-up. Fast-forward to current day, where we… Read More

November 21, 2010June 14, 2019

Mentor Acquires Magma?

Mentor Acquires Magma?
by Daniel Nenni on 11-21-2010 at 5:39 pm
Categories: EDA

**This blog was written a year ago. Several people emailed me last week saying Mentor is trying for Magma again so I thought I would run it again to see what we can find out!D.A.N. 11/21/2011

“I believe that within five years only two EDA companies will survive,” said Magma Design Automation Rajeev Madhavan (Silicom Ventures LLC international… Read More

November 3, 2010

Computational Lithography, Scaling’s Best Friend

Computational Lithography, Scaling’s Best Friend
by glforte on 11-03-2010 at 11:51 pm
Categories: EDA, Mentor, a Siemens Business

By Joseph Sawicki, Vice President & General Manager, Design to Silicon Division

It is one of the more amazing stories in the continued march of Moore’s Law over the past four nodes. Previously scaling was enabled solely though changes in the physical domain, whether through decreasing the wavelength of light, increasing … Read More

October 21, 2010

Mentor Company History

Mentor Company History
by glforte on 10-21-2010 at 7:28 am
Categories: EDA, Mentor, a Siemens Business

A venture capitalist offered the advice, “Startup investors are attracted by good people making a good product for a growing market.” That wisdom, as much as any served as the foundation for the company Mentor Graphics would become.… Read More

October 14, 2010

What Do You Mean by Mandatory?

What Do You Mean by Mandatory?
by glforte on 10-14-2010 at 6:00 pm
Categories: EDA, Foundries, Mentor, a Siemens Business, TSMC

When TSMC and Mentor Graphics held a joint seminar for mutual customers to go over new DFM requirements at 45/40 nm, two customers basically asked the same question, “What do you mean by mandatory?” Of course, TSMC wasn’t going to stand over them and say, “Mandatory means mandatory, what part of mandatory don’t you understand?” … Read More

October 14, 2010

What Do You Mean by Mandatory?

What Do You Mean by Mandatory?
by glforte on 10-14-2010 at 6:00 pm
Categories: EDA, Foundries, Mentor, a Siemens Business, TSMC

October 14, 2010

Why Only MV When You Can MC, MM & MV?

Why Only MV When You Can MC, MM & MV?
by glforte on 10-14-2010 at 4:14 pm
Categories: EDA, Mentor, a Siemens Business

Resistance is futile. I recently caved and switched to an iPhone after having been a loyal Google phone user for more than year. Apart from the coolness factor, my main motivation was corporate mail support that was absent in Gphone, plus the fact that I got the iPhone for free when my wife upgraded hers. The difference is day and night… Read More

October 14, 2010

How to Multi-Voltage IC Design in 10 Easy Steps

How to Multi-Voltage IC Design in 10 Easy Steps
by glforte on 10-14-2010 at 4:14 pm
Categories: EDA, Mentor, a Siemens Business

What I’m really describing here is an over-simplified backend flow for physical design of low power ICs with multiple voltage domains. If you haven’t ventured into this territory yet, this will hopefully give you some food for thought. Here are the basic steps:… Read More

October 14, 2010

How to Multi-Voltage IC Design in 10 Easy Steps

How to Multi-Voltage IC Design in 10 Easy Steps
by glforte on 10-14-2010 at 4:14 pm
Categories: EDA, Mentor, a Siemens Business

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