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Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that it has acquired Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. (BDA), a leader in nanometer analog, mixed-signal, and RF circuit verification.  With over one hundred customers worldwide, BDA uniquely addresses nanometer circuit design challenges via its Analog FastSPICE™ unified verification platform and exceptional vertical-application expertise.  The acquisition…

This acquisition aligns EAC with industry trends toward Service Information Management (SIM), Service Lifecycle Management (SLM), and automated publishing of technical information. The Arbortext Business Unit will operate as the EAC Product Development Information Services group or PDIS, and provide implementation, customization, development, and support for the Arbortext product line. Thane Hathaway,…

Version 4.1 of PROSTEP's PDF Generator 3D is now available and offers a number of small but nonetheless excellent and very useful enhancements and new features. For example, in version 4.1, the Model Script plug-in for the converter engine – available since version 4.0 – provides a function that allows…

Agility Group, a leader in engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning solutions for the offshore oil and gas industry, has renewed its Global Alliance Agreement (GAA) for three years to use Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise as a key design and information management solution. The company seeks to position itself as the…

SAP AG announced that its Annual Report is now available and that SAP’s Annual Report on Form 20-F has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the year ended December 31, 2013. The report can be accessed via SAP’s Web site at www.sap.com/investor and www.sap.de/investor. Hardcopies of both of the…

Nemetschek Scia will introduce Scia Design Forms, a new Open Design technology that allows Structural and Civil Engineers to centralize their engineering design tasks into one integrated workflow, at Structures Congress 2014 in Boston, Mass., which will take place April 2-4. Scia Design Forms allows civil and structural engineers to…

Infor announced that registration is officially open for its annual user conference, Inforum 2014, which will take place at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La., September 15-18. More than 7,000 Infor customers, partners, employees, and industry experts will come together to demonstrate how Infor's purpose-built applications and…

Tata Consultancy Services announced that it has been named as the Top Employer in Europe by the Top Employers Institute for the second consecutive year. TCS was ranked first among the 20 companies that were eligible for the award. The company was recognized as an exceptional performer across six core Human Resources…

LEDAS Ltd. and ASCON today jointly announced the successful integration of ASCON’s C3D kernel into LEDAS Geometry Comparison technology. This is the first third-party component to benefit from the C3D kernel; previously, third parties had only developed CAD/CAM software as applications on top of C3D. LEDAS develops computational components and…

Altium Limited announces a third party developer partnership with Octopart, a well known provider of an electronic parts search engine used by hundreds of thousands of engineers to find and compare parts across different manufacturers and distributors. Around 70-80% of the life cycle cost for a new product is a direct…