Mentor Graphics announced that the Mentor Verification Academy website, which provides access to information and online training on advanced functional verification technologies, has been expanded to serve the growing information requirements of companies adopting the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and the Open Verification Methodology (OVM). The use of these methodologies has skyrocketed in recent years as they continue to deliver on t...

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) announced today a significant expansion of the company’s Capital® product suite. Already offering a powerful electrical system and wire harness design flow for the automotive, aerospace and defence industries, the Capital suite now includes three new products that extend that flow both upstream and downstream. With the introduction of new tools addressing configuration complexity, harness manuf...

Mentor Graphics announced a unified embedded software debugging platform, from pre-silicon to final product, based on the integration of the Mentor Embedded Sourcery CodeBench embedded software development tools with Mentor’s leading electronic system level (ESL), verification, and hardware emulation products. These include the Mentor Graphics® Vista™ Virtual Prototyping product, Veloce® hardware emulator, prototype target boards, and end ...

Mentor Graphics announced today a significant expansion of the company’s Capital product suite. Already offering a powerful electrical system and wire harness design flow for the automotive, aerospace and defence industries, the Capital suite now includes three new products that extend that flow both upstream and downstream. With the introduction of new tools addressing configuration complexity, harness manufacturing and vehicle documentation a...

Mentor Graphics announced that the Catapult C high-level synthesis tool now supports the synthesis of transaction level models (TLMs). TLM synthesis provides the foundation for an executable methodology allowing interplay between Catapult C Synthesis and the Vista™ platform, resulting in a complete TLM 2.0-based solution for virtual prototyping and hardware implementation and enabling the creation of synthesis-ready virtual platforms. Expan...

Mentor Graphics announced that it has received the Circuits Assembly Magazine New Product Introduction (NPI) Award for the Valor® vManageTM Materials Manager product in the Software-Management category.

Mentor Graphics announced that, according to the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Consortium Market Statistics Service Report for 2010, the company has achieved a 50% worldwide market share in PCB design solutions. For over 12 years, Mentor Graphics® has been consistently executing on a vision and investment strategy to bring the most advanced design capabilities to the industry. Today, Mentor is supplying industry-unique capabilities that ex...

Mentor Graphics announced it has expanded the use of low power verification capabilities in TSMC’s Reference Flow 11 to address today’s complex integrated circuit (IC) low power functional verification requirements. The Mentor® low power verification tool suite includes the Questa® functional verification platform, the 0-In® CDC (Clock Domain Crossing) and the 0-In Formal tools and the FormalPro™ equivalence checking tool.

Mentor Graphics announced the results of an extensive evaluation by the Tokyo-based Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) that showed the Calibre® xACT 3D extraction product delivers both reference level accuracy and high performance, enabling very high quality extraction for large IPs.

Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), a leader in high-performance system verification solutions, today announced its next-generation platform to accelerate the verification of 100-Gigabit Ethernet products.

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that JEDEC, the organization dedicated to open standards in the microelectronics industry, has approved a thermal transient testing-based measurement methodology inspired by an original idea published jointly by the Mentor Graphics® MicReD® group and the Automotive Power Application group of Infineon in 2005.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced evaluation results at Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. that shows the Tessent YieldInsight diagnosis-driven yield analysis tool can help cut the time required to determine the cause of IC yield loss. By correlating production test results and physical design information, the product reduces the time to pinpoint yield loss mechanisms without requiring intimate knowledge of the manufacturing process.

Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced a Multimedia platform to accelerate the verification of 3D TV-based products.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the new Calibre RealTime platform for signoff-quality physical verification during design creation. The first release provides instantaneous design rule checking (DRC) in the SpringSoft Laker™ custom IC design and layout solution, using the same Calibre decks as the signoff flow.

Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced that it assisted CamSemi in replacing their integrated circuit design and verification flow with Mentor tools to improve simulation performance and time to market.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that its advanced synthesis products support Xilinx 28nm 7 series field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Xilinx 7 series FPGAs are built on a low-power and unified FPGA architecture that scales across low-cost and ultra high-end families. Support for the new 28nm Virtex-7 and Kintex-7 FPGA families is available now and support for Artix-7 will follow. Mentor Graphics is the first EDA FPGA synthesis pro...

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited is now using the Calibre® PERC product for electrical rules checks that improve the correctness and reliability of its IC designs before committing to manufacturing. The product, which automates electrical checks based on user-defined rules, is designed to address customers’ need to improve reliability by identifying areas of vulnerability to catastrophic electrical...

Mentor Graphics announced that the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center, STARC, has successfully employed the Tessent™ TestKompress® product to expand its low power IC test methodology for ICs used in battery-powered mobile devices and other power-sensitive products. Using Mentor Graphics technology, STARC is able to detect bridge and small delay failures and to prevent IR drop and power noise in nanometer devices, while minimizin...

Mentor Graphics announced it has successfully supported Infineon to improve Infineon’s verification productivity and effectiveness by assessing the status quo and by jointly establishing improved SystemVerilog (SV) methodologies. Mentor supported Infineon in this deployment based on Mentor’s functional verification solutions. The cornerstone of Infineon’s new verification environment is the Questa® functional verification platform. The tec...

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today reaffirmed its commitment to the future of open source for embedded development with the acquisition of certain assets of CodeSourcery, Inc. (Granite Bay, CA), the leading provider of open source GNU-based toolchains and services for advanced systems development.