Introduction
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 4,300 employees
- Revenue in last reported 12 months: about $825 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
- World Wide Web address - www.mentor.com
Corporate culture:
- Challenge our people
- Grow profitably
- Win ethically
- Satisfy our customers
Areas of Focus
Scalable Verification
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
To meet advanced semiconductor manufacture process 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 screen complex devices to identify the new types of failures, while simultaneously reducing the cost of test.
Integrated PCB-FPGA Systems Design
Mentor Graphics is the market and technology leader in PCB design, providing many of the world’s largest system design companies today with a range of scalable design solutions to reduce the time, cost and risk of electronic system design: the Expedition Series, for the creation of today’s most complex PCB designs; the Board Station family, the market standard solution for the PCB design challenges of the global enterprise; and the PADS flow, the leading Windows-based solution for complex PCB design.
Mentor Graphics also offers solutions for specific design challenges such as high-speed routing and verification advanced packaging, concurrent team design, FPGA-on-board integration and design data management.

