Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced it is collaborating with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to qualify the Mentor® RTL to GDS platform, including the RealTime Designer™ physical RTL synthesis solution and Olympus-SoC™ place & route system, for the current version of the GLOBALFOUNDRIES® 22FDX™ platform reference flow. In addition, Mentor and GLOBALFOUNDRIES are working on the development of the Process Design Kit (PDK) for the 22FDX platform. The PDK includes support for the Mentor Calibre® platform, covering design rule checking (DRC), layout vs. schematic (LVS) and metal fill solutions for 22FDX. These solutions help mutual customers optimize their designs using the capability of 22FDX technology to manage the power, performance and leakage. "We are collaborating closely with Mentor Graphics on enabling their products to help customers realize the benefits of the 22FDX platform," said Pankaj Mayor, vice president of Business Development for GLOBALFOUNDRIES. "The qualification of Mentor tools for implementation flows and design verification will help designers to achieve

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that its digital and signoff tools are now enabled for the current version of the GLOBALFOUNDRIES® 22FDX™ platform reference flow. GLOBALFOUNDRIES has qualified these tools for the 22FDX reference flow to provide customers with the design flexibility of software-controlled body bias to manage power, performance and leakage needed to create next-generation chips for mainstream mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and consumer applications. In addition, the ARM®Cortex®-A17 processor was used to validate the implementation flow with the Cadence® Innovus™ Implementation System and Genus™ Synthesis Solution. Cadence collaborated with GLOBALFOUNDRIES on the development of the Process Design Kit (PDK) for the 22FDX platform. The Cadence digital implementation tools support the capability of forward and reverse body bias (FBB/RBB) to optimize the performance/power tradeoffs, implant-aware and continuous diffusion-aware placement, tap insertion and body bias network connectivity according to high voltage rules. The digital implementation tools also support double-patterning aware parasitic extraction

3D Systems announced today that it will be taking part in formnext 2015, a new trade fair for moldmaking, product design and 3D printing that will be debuting this year in Frankfurt, Germany, November 17-20. 3DS will showcase the full power of its digital thread solutions for software and 3D printing, demonstrating the seamless design-to-manufacturing workflow it enables for professionals and businesses across industries. Among the products and capabilities on display will be the ProJet® 4500, ProJet® 5500X and the CubePro® desktop 3D printer. Visitors to the show will be able to witness firsthand the accuracy and detail of the ProX™ 100 Direct Metal Printer as it creates highly complex metal parts live on the show floor. 3DS' integrated solutions enhance, complement or replace traditional manufacturing methods through 3D scanning, design, production and inspection. These solutions lead to improved part performance and increased productivity within teams and organizations. Visitors to formnext can find 3DS in Hall

3D Systems announced today that it will be taking part in formnext 2015, a new trade fair for moldmaking, product design and 3D printing that will be debuting this year in Frankfurt, Germany, November 17-20. 3DS will showcase the full power of its digital thread solutions for software and 3D printing, demonstrating the seamless design-to-manufacturing workflow it enables for professionals and businesses across industries. Among the products and capabilities on display will be the ProJet® 4500, ProJet® 5500X and the CubePro® desktop 3D printer. Visitors to the show will be able to witness firsthand the accuracy and detail of the ProX™ 100 Direct Metal Printer as it creates highly complex metal parts live on the show floor. 3DS' integrated solutions enhance, complement or replace traditional manufacturing methods through 3D scanning, design, production and inspection. These solutions lead to improved part performance and increased productivity within teams and organizations. Visitors to formnext can find 3DS in Hall

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the winners of its first annual Don Miller Award for Excellence in System-Level Thermo-Fluid Design. Mentor Graphics established the award to recognize exceptional use of Flowmaster® software in research and real-world applications. The inaugural award was presented toAndrea Tradii, Stefano Rossin and Riccardo De Paolis of GE Oil and Gas on October 19th at the 31st International CAE Conference in Verona, Italy. Their work, "Experimental Validation of Steam Turbine Control Oil Actuation Systems Transient Behavior," was presented at the same event last year and was nominated for the inaugural award this year. Tradii, Rossin and De Paolis' work dramatically demonstrates the value of simulating the multi-physics of the fluid-mechanical interactions of a steam turbine trip valve using the Mentor Graphics® Flowmaster tool.  With nearly 40 years of combined experience at GE Oil and Gas and the turbomachinery industry, the authors demonstrated creativity and innovative thinking in the application of the Flowmaster software to solve a significant engineering

The Bill & Melinda Gates Hall at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York brings together the school’s computing and information science departments in a new joint facility designed to generate collaboration and spontaneous discourse. Its integrated sustainability expresses a commitment to environ­mental stewardship and creates a healthier environment, reduces energy consumption, and preserves natural resources. A BIM strategy implemented through AECOsim Building Designer, Bentley Navigator, MicroStation, and ProjectWise enabled Morphosis Architects to create a holistic view of the building and provide a single information source from early concept through construction. The integrated model increased the design team’s productivity and reduced the staff required to design, document, and coordinate the deliverables. The use of mo­bile devices provided each team member with immediate access to project data and enabled real-time documentation and communication of project work throughout the design and construction process. The Integrated BIM methodology helped the project team deliver this state-of-the-art academic building

Delcam will demonstrate the latest releases in its range of CADCAM software for mouldmakers at the DMP exhibition to be held in Dongguan, China, from the 18th and 21st November.  New releases will be on show of the modelling-for-manufacture CAD system, PowerSHAPE, the PowerMILL CAM system for high-speed and five-axis machining, and the PowerINSPECT inspection software. The 2016 release of PowerSHAPE Pro software will help users to complete complex tooling designs more quickly and more easily.  In addition, a combination of new, more efficient, code and the extension of multi-threaded calculations to many commonly-used tasks will make the software significantly faster than any previous version. One key enhancement allows groups of features to be copied between two solids in a single operation.  While the features do not need to be of the same type, the most common application is expected to be in copying patterns of holes from one solid to another,

Dassault Systèmes today announced that Dassault Systèmes is helping define and drive the digital transformation of industry in Japan during the “Year of Franco-Japanese Innovation,” an initiative launched in Tokyo on October 5, 2015 by the prime ministers of France and Japan to support cooperation between the two countries on innovation and scientific excellence. Dassault Systèmes is hosting the event “Manufacturing in the Age of Experience” in Tokyo today, bringing together thought leaders and C-level executives from across Japan to address the challenges that Japanese industry is facing and their collective vision for its future. Together, they will explore how the use of virtual design, simulation, manufacturing and collaboration applications can help revitalize innovation, enable the shift from mass production to mass customization, encourage an open innovation platform and create new ecosystems with fab labs that will boost the local economy. As one of the largest industrial countries in the world, Japan

Synopsys, Inc. has acquired Protecode, a privately held Canadian software company that provides solutions for detecting and managing open source software (OSS) and the associated license and security risks. This acquisition expands Synopsys' presence in the software quality and security market by adding new talent, technology and products to the company's Software Integrity Platform and extending its existing software composition analysis (SCA) solution. Recent trends highlight that OSS and other third-party components commonly used to build software introduce multiple layers of risk related to license obligations, security vulnerabilities, IP ownership, and quality attributes of the external code. Organizations seeking to mitigate these risks are turning to robust SCA solutions that can address all of these issues. "As organizations continue to rely more and more on open source and third-party components to build software, maintaining total visibility and managing risk throughout the software supply chain is critical," said Andreas Kuehlmann, senior vice president and

Synopsys, Inc. today announced availability of the Enhanced Security Package, a new licensable option for DesignWare® ARC® EM Processors. This new ARC EM option enables designers to create an isolated, secure environment that protects their systems and software from evolving security threats such as IP theft and remote attacks. The Enhanced Security Package integrates Synopsys SecureShield™ technology, which provides support for separating secure and non-secure modes of operation and memory as part of a trusted execution environment. The new package also includes features such as instruction and data encryption as well as data integrity checks to defend against software attacks. The ARC EM Processor with Enhanced Security Package enables SoC developers to create devices less susceptible to security threats using a single, ultra-low power processor, which eliminates the increased area and power consumption that an additional security core and associated memories would entail. This combination of security features and energy savings