Coordinates: 451910N 1224546W

Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics, Inc was a US-based multinational corporation
Mentor Graphics
dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical
engineering and electronics, and is now a subsidiary of Germany
industrial giant Siemens. Founded in 1981, the company is
headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon, and employs roughly 5,200
people worldwide with annual revenues of around $1 billion.
Type Subsidiary of Siemens
Industry EDA, Embedded Software
Founded 1981

Contents Headquarters Wilsonville, Oregon,

United States
1 History 451910N 1224546W
2 Locations Nucleus OS, EDGE Developer
Products
3 Management Suite, ModelSim/QuestaSim,
4 Products Calibre
5 See also Revenue $1.28B USD (2017)[1]
6 References Net income $138.7 million USD (2013)[2]
Total assets US$ 1.745284 billion (2013)[3]
US$ 1.550675 billion (2012)[4]
History Number of 5,220 (2014)[5]
In 1981, the idea of computer-aided design for electronics as the employees
foundation of a company occurred to several groups - those who Parent Siemens
founded Mentor, Valid Logic Systems, and Daisy Systems. One of the Website mentor.com
main distinctions between these groups was that the founding engineers
of Mentor, whose backgrounds were in software development at Tektronix, ruled out designing and manufacturing proprietary
computers to run their software applications. They felt that hardware was going to become a commodity owned by big computer
companies, so instead they would select an existing computer system as the hardware platform for the Computer Aided Engineering
(CAE) programs they would build.

By February 1981, most of the start-up team had been identified; by March, the three executive founders, Tom Bruggere, Gerry
Langeler and Dave Moffenbeier had left Tektronix, and by May the business plan was complete. The first round of money, $1
million, came from Sutter Hill, Greylock, and Venrock Associates. The next round was $2 million from five venture capital firms,
and in April 1983 a third round raised $7 million more. Mentor Graphics was one of the first companies to attract venture capital to
Oregon.

Apollo Computer workstations were chosen as the initial hardware platform. Based in Chelmsford, Apollo was less than a year old
and had only announced itself to the public a few weeks prior to when the founders of Mentor Graphics began their initial meetings.

When Mentor entered the CAE market the company had two technical differentiators: the first was the software - Mentor, Valid, and
Daisy each had software with different strengths and weaknesses. The second, was the hardware - Mentor ran all programs on the
Apollo workstation, while Daisy and Valid each built their own hardware. By the late 1980s, all EDA companies abandoned
proprietary hardware in favor of workstations manufactured by companies such as Apollo and Sun Microsystems.

After a frenzied development, the IDEA 1000 product was introduced at the 1982 Design Automation Conference, though in a suite
and not on the floor.[6]
In June 2008, Cadence Design Systems offered to acquire Mentor Graphics in a leveraged buyout. On 15 August 2008, Cadence
withdrew this offer quoting an inability to raise the necessary capital and the unwillingness of Mentor Graphics' Board and
management to discuss the offer.[7] Mentor acquired Flomerics Group plc for $60 million in cash in October 2008, and in August
2009, Mentor completed the acquisition of silicon manufacturing testing company LogicVision for $13 million in an all-stock deal.[8]
[9]
Mentor completed the acquisition of Valor Computerized Systems in March 2010 in a cash and stock deal valued at $50 million.

On 22 February 2011, Carl Icahn, an activist investor, made an offer to buy the company for about $1.86 billion in cash.

As of 2012, Mentor's major competitors are:Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Altium, and Zuken.

On March 3, 2015 Mentor Graphics announced it had acquired the business assets ofanner
T EDA.[10]

On 14 November 2016, Mentor Graphics announced that it was to be acquired by Siemens for $4.5 billion, at $37.25 per share, a
.[11] The acquisition was completed in March 2017.[12]
21% premium on Mentor's closing price on the previous Friday

Locations
Mentor Graphics product development takes place in the USA, Poland, Hungary, Japan, Pakistan, India and Egypt. James "Jim"
Ready, left Mentor in 1999 to form the embedded Linux company MontaVista. Neil Henderson joined Mentor Graphics in 2002 with
the acquisition of Accelerated Technology Inc. Stephen Mellor, a leader in the UML space and co-originator of the Shlaer-Mellor
design methodology, joined Mentor Graphics in 2004 following the acquisition of Project echnology.
T

Management
Walden C. Rhines is the company's chairman[13] of the board and chief executive officer whereas Gregory K. Hinckley serves as the
president[13] of the corporation.

Products
Mentor Graphics distributes the following tools:

Electronic design automationfor:

Integrated circuit layoutfull-custom and SDL tools such asIC Station

IC place and route tool: Olympus-SoC
IC Verification tools such as Calibre nmDRC, Calibre nmLVS,
Calibre xRC, Calibre xACT 3D
IC Design for Manufacturing tools such asCalibre LFD, Calibre
YieldEnhancer and Calibre YieldAnalyzer
Schematic editors for electronic schematics such as Design
Architect IC or DxDesigner Entrance to former company
Layout and design tools for printed circuit boards with programs headquarters
such as PADS, Xpedition Enterprise and Board Station
Component library management tools
IP cores for ASIC and FPGA designs
Embedded systems Development:

Mentor Embedded Linux[14] for ARM, MIPS, Power, and x86 architecture processors
Real-time operating systems:

Nucleus OS (acquired in 2002 when Mentor acquired Accelerated echnology,

T Inc.)
VRTX (acquired in 1995 when Mentor bought Microtec Research)
AUTOSAR implementation:

Embedded implementationVSTAR in part acquired from Mecel in 2013[15]

Configuration tooling Volcano Vehicle Systems Builder (VSB)
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 2004when 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 hardware simulation and debug environment primarily targeted at smaller ASIC and FPGA design
QuestaSim is a Simulator with additional Debug capabilities targeted at complex FPGA's and SoC's. QuestaSim
can be used by users who have experience with ModelSim as it shares most of the common debug features and
capabilities. One of the main differences between QuestaSim and Modelsim (besides performance/capacity) is
that QuestaSim is the simulation engine for the Questa Platform which includes integration oferification
V
Management, Formal based technologies, Questa V erification IP, Low Power Simulation and Accelerated
Coverage Closure technologies. QuestaSim natively supports SystemV erilog for Testbench, UPF, UCIS,
OVM/UVM where ModelSim does not.
Eldo is a 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
Mechanical Analysis Division (formed from the acquisition ofFlomerics in 2008):

Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer tools:

FloTHERM is a Computational Fluid Dynamicstool dedicated to electronics cooling using parameterized

SmartParts for common electronic components such as fans, heatsinks, and IC packages
FloTHERM XT is a electronics cooling CFD tool incorporating a solid modeler for manipulating MCAD parts.
FloEFD is a design concurrent CFD tool for use in early-stage product design and is embedded within
MCAD systems such as Solidworks, Creo Elements/Pro, CA TIA V5 and Siemens NX
Thermal Characterization and Thermal Interface Material (TIM) Measurement equipment:

T3Ster is a hardware product that embodies an implementation of the JEDEC JESD51-1 standard for IC
package thermal characterization and is compliant with JESD51-14 for Rth-JC measurement
TeraLED provides automation of the CIE 127:2007 standard providing total flux, chromaticity and correlated
color temperature (CCT) for power LEDs. WithT3Ster it provides thermal resistance metrics for LEDs based
on the real dissipated heating power.
DynTIM extends T3Ster, providing a dynamic thermal test station for thermal conductivity measurements of
thermal interface materials (TIMs),thermal greases and gap pads.
FloMASTER is a 1D or system-level CFD solution for analyzing fluid mechanics in complex pipe flow systems
(from the acquisition ofFlowmaster Ltd in 2012).
CADRA Design Drafting is a 2-1/2D mechanical drafting and documentation package specifically designed for
drafting professionals. It provides the tools needed to develop complex drawings quickly and easily (from the
acquisition of the CADRA product in 2013).

The Veloce product family enables SoC emulationand transaction-based acceleration.

See also
List of companies based in Oregon
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