Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Mentor Gets Fujitsu Qual

Wilsonville, Oregon-based Mentor Graphics, a developer of electronic design automation (EDA) software, disclosed today that Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited has qualified and adopted the firm's Calibre design-to-silicon product for physical verification and design-for-manufacturing (DFM) of advanced IC products. Calibre's software is used by semiconductor designers to check their designs, and handle manufacturing variability in circuits. The tools are used to make designers aware of potential manufacturing issues, to help improve semiconductor yields.