Mentor Graphics Corp

Mentor Graphics Corporation provides software and hardware design solutions to develop electronic products for the military/aerospace, communications, computer, consumer electronics, semiconductor, networking, multimedia, and transportation industries worldwide. It offers digital simulation products, including ModelSim software tool, a hardware description language (HDL) mixed-language digital simulator; Questa, a functional verification platform; analog/mixed-signal simulators; Seamless hardware/software co-verification product that allows designers to verify software early in the system design process; and Veloce product to create functional and logical equivalent models.

The company also provides Calibre DRC and Calibre LVS physical verification tool suite; Calibre xRC, a transistor-level extraction and device modeling tool; Calibre LFD for use in the design for manufacturing area; Calibre CMPAnalyzer to model the planarity of ICs; Calibre PERC for checking the electrical design of an IC; and Olympus-SoC, a place and route product. In addition, it offers The Board Station and Expedition series; PADS for PCB design and layout solution; I/O Designer to integrate FPGA input/output planning; XtremePCB, which offers a method for simultaneous design; and XtremeAR, a PCB routing product for routing time of large designs, as well as AutoActive place and route technology used to replace older generation routers in PCB design flows and in flows, and Precision Synthesis product to increase the performance of FPGAs. Further, the company provides Catapult C, a design tool to produce ASIC or FPGA hardware; design, analysis, manufacture, and data management software products for wire harness systems; data management systems applications; products to develop embedded software for products; tools to test IC design; and products to provide computer simulation of mechanical engineering design processes. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon.