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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 05 April 2011

MANSFIELD, TX – Mouser Electronics has partnered with Altium to link Altium Designer and Mouser’s extensive part information, placing it onto the engineer’s desktop.

The new links are part of AltiumLive announced in March. AltiumLive and Altium Designer combine to help better manage data and deliver new content to speed product development.

Mouser’s website is updated daily and searches more than seven million products to locate more than 1.8 million orderable part numbers available for online purchase.

No financial terms of the agreement were disclosed.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 05 April 2011

WILSONVILLE, OR -- Over the protest of its largest shareholders, Mentor Graphics issued $253 million in convertible debt, a move the company says will save money while having little effect on a possible sale.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 04 April 2011

WILSONVILLE, OR -- The rancor over Mentor Graphics grows more heated still as its largest shareholder called for the heads of its board of directors.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 01 April 2011

WILSONVILLE, OR -- Another top Mentor Graphics shareholder turned up the heat on the EDA software company yesterday, issuing a public letter criticizing the company's management for "unacceptable" decision-making and performance.

WILSONVILLE, OR -- The high stakes poker game over Mentor Graphics gets more interesting by the day.

WILSONVILLE, OR -- Carl Icahn is one unhappy Mentor Graphics shareholder. The notorious investor took Mentor's board to task for rejecting his $1.9 billion offer to buy the company and its followup decision today to sell up to $250 million in new bonds, a move, he says, will further dilute the company's stock.