Mentor Graphics - Products

Products

The company distributes the following tools.

• Electronic design automation for
  • Integrated circuit layout full-custom and SDL tools such as IC Station
  • IC place and route tool: Olympus-SoC
  • IC Verification tools such as Calibre nmDRC, Calibre nmLVS, and Calibre xRC
  • Schematic editors for electronic schematics such as Design Architect IC or DxDesigner
  • Layout tools for printed circuit boards with programs such as PADS, Expedition Enterprise and Board Station
  • Component library management tools
  • IP cores for ASIC and FPGA designs
• Embedded systems Development
  • Mentor Embedded Linux for ARM, MIPS, Power, and x86 architecture processors.
  • Real-time operating systems
    • Nucleus OS (acquired in 2002 when Mentor acquired Accelerated Technology, Inc.)
    • VRTX (acquired in 1995 when Mentor bought Microtec Research.)
  • Development Tools:
    • Sourcery CodeBench and Sourcery GNU toolchains (acquired in 2010 when Mentor acquired CodeSourcery)
    • Inflexion UI - (Next Device was acquired by Mentor in 2006.)
    • xtUML Design Tools: BridgePoint (acquired in a 2004 when Mentor acquired Project Technology.)
  • VPN Solutions
    • Nucleus Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) software
    • Nucleus NET networking stack
    • Nucleus implementation of the Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) protocol
    • Nucleus PPP software
• FPGA synthesis tools
  • Precision synthesis - Advanced RTL & physical synthesis for FPGAs
• Electrical Systems, Cabling and Harness design
  • Capital - a suite of integrated tools for the design, validation and manufacture of electrical systems and harnesses.
  • VeSys - a mid-market toolset for vehicle electrical system and harness design.
• Simulation tools for analog mixed-signal design
  • ModelSim is a popular hardware simulation and debug environment primarily targeted at smaller ASIC and FPGA desgin.
  • QuestaSim is a high performance and capacity Simulator with additional Advanced Debug capabilities targeted at complex FPGA's and SoC's. QuestaSim can easily be used by any users who have experience with ModelSim with no training necessary as it shares most of the common debug features and capabilities. One of the main difference between QuestaSim and Modelsim(besides the performance/capacity) is that QuestaSim is the simulation engine for the Questa Platform which includes complete integration of Verification Management, Formal based technologies, Questa Verification IP, Low Power Simulation and Accelerated Coverage Closure technologies. QuestaSim additionally natively supports SystemVerilog for Testbench, UPF, UCIS, OVM/UVM where ModelSim does not.
  • Eldo is a high performance SPICE simulator
  • SystemVision is a virtual lab for mechatronic system design and analysis
  • ADiT is a fast SPICE simulator
  • Questa ADMS is a mixed-signal verification tool
• Falcon Framework a software application framework
  • AMPLE a scripting language for the Falcon Framework
• Mechanical Analysis Division (formed from the acquisition of Flomerics)
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer tools:
    • FloTHERM is a Computational Fluid Dynamics tool dedicated to Electronics Cooling using parameterized ‘SmartParts’ for common electronic components such as fans, heatsinks, IC packages, etc.
    • FloEFD is a ‘design concurrent’ CFD tool for use in early-stage product design and is embedded within popular MCAD systems such as Solidworks, Creo Elements/Pro, CATIA V5 and Siemens NX.
  • Thermal Characterization and Thermal Interface Material (TIM) Measurement equipment:
    • T3Ster is a hardware product that embodies a smart implementation of the JEDEC JESD51-1 standard for IC package thermal characterization and is compliant with JESD51-14 for Rth-JC measurement
    • TERALED provides full automation of the CIE 127:2007 standard providing total flux, chromaticity and correlated color temperature (CCT) for power LEDs. With T3Ster it provides thermal resistance metrics for LEDs based on the real dissipated heating power.

The Veloce product family enables SoC emulation and best transaction-based acceleration.