Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the release of a GENIVI 2.0-compliant, Linux-based In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) Solution. The Mentor Embedded IVI Base Platform includes new GENIVI 2.0 features such as audio manager support and lower-level system management functions. Target hardware platform support includes the Sabre and SabreLite IVI solutions from Freescale, specifically targeted at the IVI marketplace

Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that its Capital tool suite has been accredited to IBM’s “Ready for IBM Rational” program. This program validates integrations between the Rational Software Delivery Platform and adjacent applications such as the Capital tool suite, ensuring mutual customers benefit from seamless interoperability.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that Simco Ltd is using the Mentor Embedded Inflexion HMI product to develop its next-generation, screen-based vehicle instrument cluster human machine interface (HMI). Simco will show the proof of concept HMI at the Integrated Electrical Solutions Forum (IESF) in Detroit, June 14, 2012.

Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced the availability of the Veloce2 platform, the next-generation of emulation solutions for the verification of electronic system and Systems on Chip (SoC) designs. Built to accommodate up to two billion gate designs, the Veloce2 platform delivers twice the performance, twice the capacity and four times productivity gain in the same footprint and power consumption as the first-generation Veloce platform.

The next phase of semiconductor designs will see the adoption of 3D IC packages, vertical stacks of multiple bare die connected directly though the silicon. But TSVs complicate the test process and there is no time to waste in finding solutions. By Stephen Pateras.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that Samsung Electronics and Mentor have successfully delivered a complete design-for-manufacturing (DFM) sign-off reference solution for Samsung’s foundry customers based on the Calibre platform. The DFM sign-off solution is available for world class consumer and telecommunications designs targeting advanced process nodes. Samsung has already released the Calibre kits to their customers for 32 nm and...

Mentor Graphics Corp today announced that Altera, a leader in innovative custom logic solutions, has adopted the Veloce Emulator platform for the accelerated verification of its next-generation products. Altera’s solutions target a wide range of applications, including automotive, broadcast, computer and storage, consumer, industrial, medical, military, test and measurement, wireless, and wireline.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that it has acquired the Flowmaster Group, a global leader in 1D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation software for system design. 1D CFD solutions allow for very rapid engineering design of complex fluid flow network systems like water-cooled electronic racks, automotive vehicle thermal management, and aerospace fuel systems. This acquisition consolidates the position of Mentor Graphics as the...

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that it has acquired the Flowmaster Group, a global leader in 1D Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation software for system design. 1D CFD solutions allow for very rapid engineering design of complex fluid flow network systems like water-cooled electronic racks, automotive vehicle thermal management, and aerospace fuel systems. This acquisition consolidates the position of Mentor Graphics as the ...

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced today that PKC Eesti AS, an Estonian supplier of electrical wiring harnesses to European truck makers and a subsidiary of PKC Group Oyj, a Finnish publicly listed company, has deployed the latest technology from the Mentor Graphics Capital suite of tools at its factory in Estonia. This technology includes the Capital HarnessXC product which enables harness engineers to create fully detailed, validated and man...

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the integration of its award-winning Inflexion user interface (UI) technology with the Mentor Embedded In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) Base Platform), that complies with the requirements of the GENIVI Alliance, an automotive and consumer electronics industry association driving the collaborative development of open source IVI systems. The inclusion of the Inflexion UI tool with the Mentor IVI Base Platfor...

Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced that its industry-leading Questa and Veloce functional verification platforms have expanded their support for designs based on the latest ARM Cortex processors and AMBA bus interfaces. This enables both hardware and software engineers to fully verify their multi-core ARM-based designs seamlessly across the Questa verification and Veloce emulation platforms.

Mentor Graphics has announced hardware and software solutions to accelerate the verification of Universal Serial Bus SuperSpeed (3.0) products. These new solutions, connected to a Veloce® emulator, enable designers to test their USB SuperSpeed peripheral devices integrated on their System-on-Chip (SoC) designs, and to develop and test their software drivers and firmware prior to silicon being available.

Leveraging its expertise in transportation design technology, Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced it is collaborating with Freescale Semiconductor to provide the MentorR Embedded Linux In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) Base Platform for the Freescale i.MX6 series of scalable, multicore ARM Cortex A9-based processors. This effort will help speed the deployment of automotive IVI systems based on the new i.MX6 processors.

Mentor Graphics Corporation and NuFlare Technology, Inc. announced the extension of their successful collaboration on integrated hardware and software solutions for advanced IC mask generation. The companies’ new joint marketing and support agreement will help ensure seamless interfaces, high mask fidelity, fast mask writing times, and very high levels of technical support.

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced new capabilities in the Tessent TestKompress and the Tessent FastScan tools that enable higher defect coverage and lower defect per million levels for quality-critical applications like military, medical, automotive, and many others. User defined fault models and a new cell-aware ATPG flow together allow customers to target subtle shorts and open defects internal to standard cells that are not adequately det...

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced a collaboration with TSMC to support SmartFill functionality in the Calibre® YieldEnhancer product for TSMC’s manufacturing processes starting at 65nm. The analysis and automatic filling capabilities of the SmartFill solution allow designers to achieve IC fill constraints with minimal impact on circuit performance in a single pass without manual customization or modification.

Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced it has expanded the Vista™ ESL Platform to address the needs for Virtual Prototyping for early software development. In addition, the Vista ESL platform’s integration with Catapult C, sharing common TLM modeling style for Virtual prototyping and HLS-based hardware implementation, has been strengthened with the Mentor® partnership with Calypto. The Vista ESL platform is the center point of the Mentor ...

Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced the call-for-entries of its 23rd annual Technology Leadership Awards competition, continuing its tradition of recognizing excellence in printed circuit board (PCB) design. Started in 1988, this program is the longest running competition of its kind in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry. It recognizes engineers and CAD designers who use Mentor Graphics® innovative technology to address today�...

Mentor Graphics has announced that the PyxisTM Custom IC Design Platform is available immediately, delivering new functionality and increased productivity through advances in concurrent design and automated custom IC routing technology. The Pyxis Custom IC Design Platform is a step function improvement to current custom IC design and verification tools by addressing their most serious shortcomings