WILSONVILLE, Ore., Jan. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor
Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced its
Tessent® DefectSim™ product was awarded 2016 Product of
the Year by Electronic Products magazine. This award is presented
for a product launched in 2016 that represents innovative design
and advancement in technology, as determined by the editors of the
publication.
The Tessent DefectSim product measures the defect coverage of
any test applied to an analog or mixed-signal circuit. This tool
enables a designer to improve the quality of analog and
mixed-signal circuits during integrated circuit (IC) design by
guiding design-for-test (DFT) and the selection of more effective
manufacturing tests. It also enables test engineers to reduce test
costs by showing which tests do not increase coverage and whether
simpler or faster tests could achieve higher coverage. The tool
satisfies the growing defect-coverage measurement requirement for
automotive ICs set by Tier1 automotive suppliers in accordance with
the ISO 26262 automotive functional safety standard.
The Tessent DefectSim tool works with Mentor's Eldo®
and Questa® ADMS™ simulators to measure the
likelihood-weighted percentage of opens, shorts, extreme
variations, and user-defined defect or fault models that can be
detected within a layout-extracted or schematic netlist. The
Tessent DefectSim product combines many techniques, described in
our peer-reviewed papers, to reduce total simulation time by many
orders of magnitude compared to simulation of every potential
defect in a flat layout-extracted netlist, without reducing
simulation accuracy or the choice of tests.
"We are gratified to receive this industry recognition for an
analysis tool that has taken many years to develop, and is the only
general-purpose, analog fault simulator available commercially,"
said Stephen Sunter, engineering
director for mixed-signal DFT at Mentor Graphics. "We thank the
many customers who evaluated the Tessent DefectSim tool and
provided so much constructive feedback to help ensure that their
AMS designers will have the fault simulation capability that
digital designers have had for 30 years and which has facilitated
tremendous advances in automation for digital DFT and test
generation."
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation is a
world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions,
providing products, consulting services and award-winning support
for the world's most successful electronic, semiconductor and
systems companies. Established in 1981, the company reported
revenues in the last fiscal year of approximately $1.18 billion. Corporate headquarters are located
at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville,
Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor, Eldo, Questa, and Tessent are
registered trademarks, DefectSim and ADMS are trademarks of Mentor
Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the
registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.)
For more information, please contact:
Anne Cirkel
Mentor Graphics
503.685.7934
anne_cirkel@mentor.com
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