Mentor changes its name to Siemens EDA

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Since its acquisition in 2017, EDA software company, Mentor, has styled itself 'Mentor, a Siemens company'. From January, 2021, it will change its name to Siemens EDA.

www.electronicsweekly.com, Dec. 14, 2020 – 

Announcing the name change, Joe Sawicki, executive vice president of IC-EDA, Siemens EDA (pictured), said that the name brings EDA software, simulation, mechanical design, manufacturing, cloud, IoT and low code technology under a single banner for industrial software. "Mentor has always pioneered digitalisation of electronic design and Siemens brings world-class digitalisation to big systems like planes, automobiles, factories, and cities. Connecting electronic design to big systems is the vision for our customers," he wrote in a blog about the name change.

He takes a positive view of the rate of digitisation and the impact it will have on the EDA market. "Whether it's startups or large system houses creating internal design teams, we are seeing new players in the IC design market every day and it's clear that will drive tremendous growth in the EDA business," he said.

"One way to see this is to take a look at the forecasting for data traffic which shows a 400X increase over the next few years. Whether the end market is a product in the gaming, video, IoT, automotive, or medical sectors, those markets are projected to be larger than the entire data traffic today!" And the systems used to process and transmit this data rely on semiconductors.

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