WILLSONVILLE, OR and IASI, ROMANIA – Mentor Graphics has extended its university program to the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University in Iasi. As part of the company’s Higher Education Program (HEP), Mentor is donating electronic design automation (EDA) software and support valued at more than $20 million.
 
Students will graduate with extensive knowledge of methodologies for functional verification and field-programmable gate array (FGPA) design and analysis. In addition, semiconductor supplier Infineon Technologies will be equipping a new microelectronics development laboratory at the university.
 
“Investment in the electronics industries of emerging regions depends on having highly talented engineers skilled in the latest and most relevant electronic design methodologies,” explains Ian Burgess, development manager for Mentor’s HEP.

EL SEGUNDO, CA – AWR has introduced the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) library for its Visual System Simulator (VSS) software. The DVB library supports Digital Video Broadcast-Terrestrial (DVB-T) and Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H). It is also compliant with the ETSI EN 300 744 V1.5.1 (2004–06) specifications.
 
The library contains a configurable DVB signal source with standard framing structure, channel coding and modulation. Using error vector magnitude, adjacent channel power ratio, eye diagrams and spectral measurements, designers are able to evaluate the performance of DVB receiver circuits at the component.