CAMPBELL, CA – TSMC has included three Sigrity chip, package and system co-design products – XtractIM, OrbitIO Planner and OptimizePI – in TSMC Reference Flow 11.0. 

Flow support now includes streamlined IC package assessment, package model extraction, chip/system IO planning, and power delivery system optimization.

XtractIM provides intuitive assessment of IC package performance. OrbitIO Planner gives designers visibility into complex physical IO interactions, and OptimizePI offers targeted power delivery system improvement with a high-degree of automation to support IC package and system-level decoupling capacitor optimization. 
No financial terms between the two firms were disclosed.

WILSONVILLE, OR -- Mentor Graphics' board has adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan, granting each of its shareholders the opportunity to purchase one incentive stock purchase for each share of common stock currently held.