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Siemens EDA’s mission is to help you engineer a smarter future faster. Read our latest blog posts to keep up to date on the latest tools, trends, methodologies and offerings in IC, advanced packaging and PCB systems electronics design, verification and manufacturing.

Tessent Solutions

Cell-aware test can be “Awarding”

December 02, 2015

By Ron Press, Mentor Graphics Inventing Cell-aware ATPG earned Mentor’s Friedrich Hapke the 2015 Bob Madge Innovation Award.

By Tessent Solutions

Design with Calibre

Why Do We Need Assembly Design Kits for Packages?

December 01, 2015

By John Ferguson and Tarek Ramadan, Mentor Graphics Why do we need assembly design kits for IC packages?

By Design With Calibre

Electronic Systems Design

Tired of writing stick it notes and emails to collaborate on your electro-mechanical design?

November 30, 2015

Consumers increasingly require more functionality in their products to meet the demands of increased complexity over multiple design disciplines. In...

Electronic Systems Design

PCB Tech Talk Podcast: Key Advantages of 3D PCB Layout

November 23, 2015

Having a 3D view in PCB design tools is not new. However, 3D capabilities have greatly evolved over the past...

By John McMillan

Electronic Systems Design

PCB Carolina 2015 - Raleigh NC

November 23, 2015

2015 was another record-breaking year at PCB Carolina, the premier PCB design and fabrication conference in the Southeastern U.S. The...

By John McMillan

Design with Calibre

Design Rule Checking for Silicon Photonics

November 17, 2015

By Ruping Cao, Mentor Graphics Verifying silicon photonics designs requires new techniques, like equation-based DRC

By Design With Calibre

Electronic Systems Design

Why impose PCB design constraints? Part 3

November 16, 2015

This is the third in a three part series examining rule and constraint definition and management that supports a correct-by-design...

Tessent Solutions

A flexible flow for inserting embedded compression logic in RTL

November 11, 2015

By Ron Press Inserting test compression logic just got a lot easier.

By Tessent Solutions

Design with Calibre

Reported Death of Moore's Law Premature?

November 10, 2015

By Michael White, Mentor Graphics Is Moore’s Law dying? A look at the latest process node activity and technology

By Design With Calibre