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Mentor Graphics, Inc (Nasdaq: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry.
The company distributes the following tools.
- Electronic design automation for
- Integrated circuits
- FPGA
- Embedded systems
- Schematic editors for electronic schematics such as Design Architect IC or DxDesigner
- Layout tools for printed circuit boards with programs such as PADS, Expedition and Board Station
- Component library management tools
- Intellectual property blocks for ASIC and FPGA designs
- Embedded systems Development
- real-time operating systems
- Nucleus RTOS (acquired in 2002 when Mentor bought Accelerated Technology Inc.)
- VRTX (acquired in 1995 when Mentor bought Microtec Research.)
- Development Tools:
- real-time operating systems
- Simulation tools for analog mixed-signal design
- ModelSim is a popular hardware simulation and debug environment
- Eldo is a high performance SPICE simulator
- Mach TA is a fast SPICE simulator
- Advance MS is a mixed-signal verification tool
- Falcon Framework a software application framework for Apollo/Domain and Unix
- AMPLE a scripting language for the Falcon Framework
Mentor has software development sites located around the world but the majority of their developers are located in the United States.
James "Jim" Ready, one of the more colorful people in embedded systems, left Mentor in 1999 to form the embedded Linux company MontaVista. Neil Henderson, a pioneer in the royalty-free, source provided market space, 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 with the acquisition of Project Technology.
As of 2005, Mentor's major competitors are Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, and Magma Design Automation.