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, …