November 29, 2011 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that Fujitsu Semiconductor, Ltd. has standardized on the Mentor Graphics HyperLynx signal-integrity technology as the company's LSI-IC packaging (PKG)-printed circuit board (PCB) co-design tool for fast and accurate high-speed simulation and analysis.

For today's highly functional end-products, bus speeds are increasingly getting faster and the demand for noise timing-aware LSI-PKG-PCB co-design is increasing. Fujitsu Semiconductor adopted the HyperLynx product suite to address problems caused by high-speed signals throughout the design cycle, from early architectural stages through post-layout verification. Since the HyperLynx product is easy-to-use and provides an intuitive user interface, all members of the product development team (hardware engineers, PCB designers and signal integrity specialists) can use it, from pre-layout analysis and simulation to post-layout verification.

Fujitsu Semiconductor needed to address timing issues at three levels: LSI, PKG, and PCB, especially with the rapidly emerging DDR2/ 3/ 4 and SerDes interconnect standards. The company selected the Mentor Graphics HyperLynx technology as its robust signal and power integrity solution. Fujitsu needed to standardize its LSI-PKG-PCB co-design environment with easy-to-use, yet highly accurate, simulation for global adoption. Fujitsu Semiconductor deployed HyperLynx for a special project in 2010, basing its standardization on the Mentor HyperLynx product's signal- and power-integrity technology and Mentor's ability to provide superior global customer support.