SANTA CLARA, CA – Agilent Technologies is offering a book on signal integrity characterization techniques.

DETROIT -- SAE International will host a free telephone/webcast on Oct. 10 to clear up misunderstandings among users and to explain differences between the organization’s standards governing counterfeits.

WILSONVILLE, OR -- Mentor Graphics today announced full interoperability between the Tessent IJTAG chip-level IP integration product and Asset InterTech’s ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments, which includes chip, circuit board and system-level IJTAG tools. This combination of capabilities delivers a chip-to-system-level automated IJTAG IP integration solution said to simplify the user’s ability to leverage chip-level resources to the printed circuit board or system levels. Read more ...

LOWELL, MA -- Mentor Graphics will acquire SofTech's CADRA line of mechanical design and drafting software for up to $4 million, depending on future sales. Mentor will initially pay $3.2 million for the product line, plus earn-out payments of up to $750,000 based on 10% of CADRA revenue generated by Mentor in the three-year period following the closing.