Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 May 2003
Pair to advance
mixed-signal and RF design
Mentor Graphics has formed a technology alliance with STMicroelectronics to address the needs of today's analogue/mixed-signal and radio frequency designers
Mentor Graphics has formed a technology alliance with STMicroelectronics to address the needs of today's analogue/mixed-signal (AMS) and radio frequency (RF) designers. The two companies have created a common R and D team with the goal of maximising AMS and RF design productivity for the companies' mutual customers and internal ST design teams.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The alliance is another significant outcome of five years of co-operative effort between the two companies.
Through the development of comprehensive VHDL-AMS model libraries and the integration of the Mentor Graphics AMS design and verification tools into STMicroelectronics' design kits, the two companies are developing methodologies to shorten design cycles and increase first-pass design success for AMS and RF designers.
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"Mentor and ST have a long-standing, collaborative relationship.
This formal partnership will allow us to leverage each company's core strengths and provide significant benefits to our mutual customers", said Philippe Magarshack, Central R and D Group Vice President for Design Automation at STMicroelectronics.
"As one of leading wireless and communications semiconductor companies, ST is driving the trend toward more widely accepted use of VHDL-AMS, and we are strongly committed to this new methodology paradigm".
"The Mentor Graphics simulation tools suite, combined with Mentor's modeling and simulation expertise, have been successfully proven as a major step towards first time silicon success", said Loic Lietar, STMicroelectronics TPA/Cellular Terminals General Manager.
"This common R and D team will improve the codesign efficiency with our key wireless customers in the area of power management and RF applications".
"It is a privilege for us to partner with the number one mixed-signal semiconductor vendor to form a common R and D team", said Jue-Hsien Chern, Vice President and General Manager for the Deep Submicron (DSM) Division of Mentor Graphics.
"The development of models and methodologies for mixed-signal, top-down design and verification provides a unique opportunity to link the modelling and simulation experts at Mentor with the efficient design teams of STMicroelectronics".
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