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Electronic design automation

Siemens and Synopsys settle Mentor Graphics patent litigation and team up to expand and extend EDA collaboration

Mentor buys BDA to meet ‘growing analogue and mixed signal verification challenges’

Synopsys buys SpringSoft in $400million deal

Balanced approach matches analogue design requirements

Systemic complexity is the chip designer’s biggest enemy

FPGA-PCB codesign; a 21st Century approach to integrating fpgas into the pcb design process

Cadence acquires UK eda specialist

National Instruments completes AWR acquisition

ST tapes out first 20nm test chip

NI buys eda firm, strengthens capabilities in rf design and test

End to end flows are set to reshape ic design

TSMC releases ‘unified and interoperable’ eda files