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Article: Mentor Graphics Analog/Mixed-Signal Simulators Enable Widex to Verify Wireless Chip for New Clear440 Product.(Company overview)
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- Electronics Newsweekly
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- November 11, 2009
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Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) announced that Widex, a global leader in digital hearing aid technology, has used the entire set of analog and mixed-signal simulator tools (Eldo[R], Eldo RF™, Questa[R] ADMS and ADiT™) to successfully verify and produce its most complex wireless chip to date.
Digital hearing aid systems are complex battery-operated systems, including sophisticated DSP, memory, and analog/digital converters. In the recently announced series from Widex, they have introduced a new, high-end family of products with wireless functions.
The wireless chip set includes about 500K digital gates using multiple power supply ...