Mentor joins SOI Industry Consortium
In joining the group, the company aims to expand EDA tool and methodology support for SOI (silicon-on-insulator) technology.
By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News -- EDN, November 13, 2009
The SOI Industry Consortium this week announced Mentor Graphics Corp as its newest member, saying that in joining the group the company aims to expand EDA tool and methodology support for SOI (silicon-on-insulator) technology.
“Mentor Graphics is pleased to join the SOI Industry Consortium, and looks forward to advancing design automation support for SOI-based products and systems in collaboration with other members," said Robert Hum, VP and general manager of deep submicron technologies at Mentor, in a statement. “As we engage our expertise in modeling, characterization, analytics, and constructive design tools with the needs of the global SOI user community, we can help designers and manufacturers exploit all of the underlying goodness of SOI technology.”
Horacio Mendez, executive director of the SOI Industry Consortium, officially welcomed Mentor and credited the company's EDA technology as being a leader in green, low-power design and design-for-manufacturing solutions. “Mentor’s strengths in mixed signal and RF design enablement are also well-aligned with the expanding usage of SOI,” he said.
Other current SOI Industry Consortium members include AMD, Applied Materials, ARM, Cadence Design Systems, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale Semiconductor, Stanford University, and STMicroelectronics.
