August 20, 2012 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that DENSO Corp. has adopted the Mentor ICanalyst tool, which is an analog cell-characterization management tool, that allowed DENSO to substantially reduce the datasheet-generation work required for reusing existing analog circuit resources, and facilitates efficient reuse of circuit blocks.

"Datasheet generation is vital to understanding legacy block data when engineers reuse the analog circuit blocks. Traditionally, datasheets must be prepared by summarizing results of temperature, parameter, and corner model simulations. The extremely costly verification and generation processes limit the possibility of circuit reuse and, therefore, hamper improvement of design efficiency. At DENSO, we automatically collected the simulation result and generated datasheets using ICanalyst and we are now spending significantly less time and money on such painful datasheet generation," said Yoshiki Kuwata, DENSO.

With supporting languages such as Perl and Tcl for customizing simulation result data in the datasheet-creation flow, the ICanalyst tool let DENSO engineers output circuit-block datasheets directly in their original formats. The ICanalyst tool can also use IBM Platform LSF to run simulations on multiple distributed CPUs, which leads to faster and simplified simulations. Another benefit is achieved by linking the ICanalyst tool to the Mentor schematic editor and wave viewer. Through the integration, waveform-result and circuit-diagram images can be automatically captured for document use without changing their existing schematic database.

Posted by: John Miklosz