Mentor Graphics provides powerful support for electrical system design, electrical analysis, system integration/wiring design, harness engineering and service documentation. These solutions are currently deployed throughout the world within the automotive, aerospace, rail, and specialty vehicle segments by both OEMs and their suppliers.
The core tools can be implemented individually or deployed together in a unified flow that seamlessly matures design data within a consistent environment. Robust integration with adjacent domains (such as 3D MCAD) is fully supported, as is cross-organizational collaboration. These tools are highly scalable and suitable for complex projects undertaken by large, distributed organizations and for smaller, simpler projects.
Addressing PCB Design Complexities
PCB designs grow increasingly complex and challenging with each technological advance. Add globally dispersed design and manufacturing teams to the mix, and the collaboration hurdles make projects difficult at best. PCB Design Software helps companies meet market demands, facilitate global collaboration, accelerate time-to-market, increase profit margins, and optimize/improve PCB reliability.
PADS from Mentor Graphics is a world-class desktop PCB design tool that enables you to develop Printed Circuit Boards within a highly efficient, scalable and easy-to-use environment. PADS PCB Design Tools cover the entire spectrum of PCB development, from schematic entry to manufacturing preparation. PADS suites from Mentor Graphics are tailored to meet the design needs of each individual, unlike other products that are “one-size-fits-all.” Reduce PCB design time, cost and expensive redesigns with PADS PCB Design tools from Mentor Graphics.
Mentor Graphics offers a complete suite of PCB Circuit Simulation software, including signal integrity, power integrity, analog simulation, PCB thermal analysis and EMI/EMC design analysis. These PCB Circuit Simulation solutions provide the flexibility that a PCB designer needs to solve the most critical requirements.
Integrated FPGA Design Flow
Welcome to Mentor Graphics ASIC and FPGA HDL Design Creation and Synthesis solutions. With two decades of HDL-based development tool experience, Mentor Graphics delivers a range of product solutions from concept to implementation for requirements through project management and development.
Solutions for Requirements-Based FPGA Design Flows
Ensure the safety of in-flight hardware and meet FAA standards. Mentor delivers a best-practice methodology for requirements-based design to help you meet your DO-254 quality objectives while improving productivity.
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The Mentor Functional Verification platform delivers the strongest verification foundation and vision, spanning simulation, emulation, and formal verification to conquer your ever growing verification challenges. Its leading support for open, industry standards, customizability, and scalability ensures an optimized verification flow that is tailored to your needs and achieves the highest productivity, schedule predictability, and rapid verification closure.
The Most Comprehensive IC Implementation Environment Available
Mentor Graphics offers the most comprehensive IC implementation environment available today. Our solution combines the ground-breaking Olympus-SoC place-and-route system, the industry-standard Calibre physical verification and design-for-manufacturing product suite, and our award-winning integrated platform. These industry-leading products provide a comprehensive “Design-to-Silicon” solution.
Solutions for the GDSII-to-Mask Flow
Mentor delivers solutions tailored to your key challenges in the GDSII-to-Mask flow including maintaining tight critical dimension (CD) control for high wafer yield and reducing time-to-mask, cost of operation, and the duration and cost of new technology development.
Mentor delivers highest quality silicon test and failure analysis tools to ensure that each device produced will be free of defects before delivery. Effective test development tools achieve these quality targets while maintaining profitability with lower test costs.
The Mechanical Analysis Division of Mentor Graphics (formerly Flomerics) provides the world's most advanced computational fluid dynamics products. Our simulation software and consultancy services eliminate mistakes, reduce costs, and accelerate and optimize designs involving heat transfer and fluid flow before physical prototypes are built.
Achieving Optimal Designs through ESL Methodologies
Today’s advanced designs have grown too massive and complex to cost-effectively design and verify using traditional RTL methodologies alone. Electronic System Level (ESL) design methodologies address this complexity problem by elevating design to a higher level of abstraction. This relieves hardware designers from the design errors caused by the overwhelming detail of lower-level methodologies and offers much shorter and efficient design cycles.
Full System Integration
True system modeling provides an interactive environment in which designers can verify their specific part of an overall puzzle, a puzzle in which any small change can affect the final outcome. “What-if” tradeoffs can be made, performance as a function of component tolerances can be determined, and many other analyses can be performed.
Mentor's SystemVision and BridgePoint products successfully address the requirements for system modeling in the transportation, aerospace, medical and other industries.
Automotive SW and Networking System Solutions
The Volcano family includes system design tools, network design tools, virtual validation tools, test tools, and embedded software for automotive electronic and SW systems using multiplexed communication networks.