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Mentor Graphics Launches Emulation Services Worldwide
WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001--Mentor Graphics
Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) today announced that it is extending its
system verification consulting offering by providing emulation
services to customers on a worldwide basis.
The offering allows customers to take advantage of the company's
market-leading Meta emulation technology on a project basis, without
making a large capital commitment.
The system verification services offered by Mentor Consulting
provide customers with expertise to assist in the adoption and
application of advanced functional verification methodologies. Mentor
Consulting is now adding to these solutions the capabilities of
accelerated verification and custom in-circuit emulation, through
interactive or batch mode remote access to Mentor Graphics®
emulation hardware. With accelerated verification, customers can take
advantage of the significant performance improvements which hardware
emulators offer over software-based simulation solutions.
Additionally, customers can work with Mentor Consulting to develop
full in-circuit system verification environments, including custom
in-circuit test boards and functional test suites. These offerings
ensure that Mentor Consulting can provide the fullest range of
verification solutions to meet the needs of their customers.
``Customers continue to need the power of system-on-chip emulation
to complete their difficult and complex system designs,'' said Eric
Selosse, general manager of the Mentor Graphics Meta Systems division.
``By extending our offerings to include system verification with
emulation services, we aim at making it easier for our customers
worldwide to take advantage of our core technology to speed their
time-to-market.''
These emulation services are based on the Mentor Graphics
market-leading emulation products, featuring superior ease of use and
system compile time. Ease-of-use and faster system compile time allow
developers to more rapidly incorporate bug fixes into their designs
and re-test them, significantly speeding time to market.
Mentor Graphics and Cadence Design Systems have been involved in
extensive patent infringement litigation concerning their respective
emulation systems. As a result of recent litigation, Mentor Graphics
believes that offering remote access to its emulation technology,
located exclusively outside the United States, will allow its
customers to take advantage of Mentor's technology while adhering to
existing court rulings. For example, Mentor Graphics has recently
received the opinion of the International Trade Commission that remote
access to certain Meta emulation systems located outside the United
States would not violate existing ITC orders.
Pricing and Availability
The price of emulation services begins at $26,000 per week, which
includes remote emulator access and one full-time consultant to assist
in test execution. Prices for emulator access vary by the required
hardware configuration. Additional consulting is also available for
the development of test environments and for the analysis of results.
About Mentor Consulting
Mentor Consulting is the leader in worldwide semiconductor
intellectual property services and maintenance and a provider of
innovative solutions addressing today's design and verification
challenges. The company's infrastructure and methodology solutions for
System-on-Chip design, board process, system verification and design
reuse are used worldwide by forward-looking electronics companies to
optimize their design productivity and advance adoption of the latest
industry design best practices. For more information on these and
other services and products email Mentor Consulting at
mentor_consulting@mentor.com or visit www.mentor.com/consulting.
About Meta Systems
Mentor Graphics Meta Systems business unit, based in Les Ulis,
France, is a world leader in emulation. With the ability to handle
designs of up to 26 million gates and compile times of up to one
million gates per hour, the Meta Systems emulators provide fast
iteration of the design, allowing more design errors to be caught in
less time.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) is a world leader in
electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products
and consulting services for the world's most successful electronics
and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported
revenues over the last 12 months of over $600 million and employs
approximately 2,850 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are
located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777;
Silicon Valley headquarters are located at 1001 Ridder Park Drive, San
Jose, California 95131-2314. World Wide Web site: www.mentor.com.
Mentor Graphics is a registered trademark of Mentor Graphics
Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered
trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact:
Mentor Graphics
Suzanne Graham, 503/685-7789
suzanne_graham@mentor.com
or
Benjamin Group/BSMG Worldwide
Dean Rodgers, 503/283-8800
dean_rodgers@benjamingroup.com
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