Unique exhibition and trade show levels the playing field for customers and vendors as semiconductor intellectual property (IP) reuse grows beyond EDA tools.

System-of-Systems (SoS) company Siemens significantly expands with acquisition of Mentor Graphics System-on-Chip (SoC), board-level and automotive technologies.

By John Blyler, JB Systems and Bill Chown, Siemens Mentor Graphics Most engineers would prefer to do design work than spend much time on the often onerous task of requirements identification, derivation and allocation. The sooner they are given the relevant requirements, the sooner they can begin the work for which most engineers in the traditional domains have been educated–namely, …

Shrinking technology nodes at lower product costs plus the rise of compute-intensive IOT applications help Menta’s e-FPGA outlook. By John Blyler, IP Systems The following are edited portions of my video interview the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2016 with Menta’s business development director, Yoan Dupret. – JB John Blyler’s interview with Yoan Dupret from Menta Blyler: You’re technology enables designers to include …

Mentor Graphics answers failure mode questions and simulation-testing for IGBT and MOSFET power electronics in electronic, hybrid-electronic vehicles (EV/HEV).

UWB chip-based high accuracy location bubbles are applicable to drone, keychain finder, IOT, smart home devices and connected car technologies. By Mickael Viot, Decawave Indoor location systems are a growing trend in shopping malls, airports, retail stores and smart homes. These new technologies enable smartphones and electronic devices to determine their locations indoors much as GPS can do outdoors. Indoor …

Silvaco’s acquisition of IPextreme points to the increasing importance of IP in EDA.

John Blyler, CEO of JB Systems, Joins the RMS Partnership as a Senior Lecturer to Help Bring Systems Engineering Into the Semiconductor, Hardware-Software Embedded and Cyber-Security Industries.

Cyborg Insects presentation at 2016 Symposia on VLSI Tech and Circuits will focus on building interfaces between synthetic and multi-cellular systems.

The RMS Partnership offers on-site and online CEU technical courses through the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). The instructors are technical professionals with many years of teaching experience and authorship. RMSP503: Introduction to Private Contract Management [FIT Online Course #PDP0721 – PRIVATE MGMT] Schedule: Online, May 9 through Jun 20, 2016    $450* per engineer. Taught by Cynthia Gayton Esq., Gayton Law …