Company：Mentor Graphics Corp.

Products：
Scalable Verification, PCB System, FPGA/PLD

Web：http://www.mentor.com

Profile：

Mentor Graphics® is a technology leader in electronic design automation（EDA）, providing software and hardware design solutions that enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. The company offers innovative products and solutions that help engineers overcome the design challenges they face in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design. Mentor Graphics has the broadest industry portfolio of best-in-class products and is the only EDA company with an embedded software solution.

*　Publicly held（NASDAQ：MENT）
*　Founded 1981, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon
*　approximately 4,350 employees
*　Revenue in last reported 12 months：about $875 million
*　World-class research and development - 28 engineering sites worldwide
*　High-touch, global distribution channel - 48 sales offices around the world
*　Strategic partnerships with leading electronics manufacturers, semiconductor and
　　electronic design suppliers for development of new design solutions and
　　methodologies

Areas of Focus
Scalable Verification
Mentor Graphics provides its customers with critical tools for solving the increasingly complicated problems of verifying that today’s complex chip designs actually function as intended. Functional errors at the system level are the leading cause of design revisions affecting time to market and profitability. Design teams must improve existing methodologies with tools that scale across design complexity and multiple levels of abstraction. The Mentor Graphics Scalable Verification™ platform is the most comprehensive EDA solution for functional verification, merging standards support, tools and a “design for verification” methodology to minimize verification cycles and design revisions. This solution provides the industry’s best language support and the most complete path for verification, from hardware description language（HDL）simulation to in-circuit emulation, including support for testbenches, assertions and functional prototypes. Mentor offers standards-based support for the most advanced verification requirements with integrated technologies now including the 0-In® assertion-based verification tools and methodologies to enable comprehensive verification throughout the entire design.

The Scalable Verification platform is comprised of “best-in-class” technologies: the ModelSim® simulation environment, Seamless® Hardware/Software Co-Verification, ADVanceMS™ for analog/mixed-signal verification, FormalPro™ equivalence checking and the VStation™ and Celaro™ hardware emulation platforms.

Design to Silicon
In advanced process technologies the handoff between integrated circuit（IC）ayout and manufacturing has changed. In previous technologies, the handoff was a simple check when the design went to manufacturing. Now it is a multi-step process where the layout database is modified so the design can be manufactured. This presents a host of challenges. Issues arise concerning manufacturing process effects, photolithography, data volumes and achieving a cost-effective yield of finished chips from each wafer.

To meet these challenges with confidence, design teams turn to the integrated Calibre® design-to-silicon platform from Mentor Graphics, which includes physical verification, full-chip, transistor-level parasitic extraction, design for manufacturability（DFM）, mask data preparation（MDP）and resolution enhancement technologies（RET）. Every facet of the design-to-silicon transition is efficiently and accurately managed by the Calibre product family. Moving to ever smaller geometries and new process materials causes a fundamental shift in the physical defect spectrum in silicon manufacturing. The Mentor Graphics TestKompress® embedded deterministic test tool helps companies efficiently