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Mentor Graphics and Sigrity Partner to Develop Interface for High-Speed Design Solutions
WORCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2001--Mentor Graphics
Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT), the market leader in printed circuit board
(PCB) design software, has partnered with Sigrity, Inc. to deliver
advanced power plane analysis capabilities for high-speed design
solutions.
As a member of the Mentor Graphics® OpenDoor(SM) partner
program, Sigrity has collaborated with Mentor Graphics to develop an
interface from Mentor's ICX(TM) interconnect synthesis design and
verification environment to Sigrity's SPEED2000 (Simulation Package
for Electrical Evaluation and Design) tool. By integrating these
tools, ICX users will gain access to the complementary functionality
of SPEED2000 to model and analyze the power planes in high-speed
digital designs.
``For today's most complex, high-speed designs, the accuracy of
detailed power analysis is essential to ensure design performance,''
said Douglas R. Johnson, director of marketing, Systems Design
Division, Mentor Graphics. ``As a result of this partnership, we are
able to offer our customers advanced power plane analysis capabilities
within an integrated design flow.''
``By collaborating with a leader in PCB design on this combined
solution, we are able to make the capabilities of Sigrity's SPEED2000
tool available to Mentor's ICX customer base,'' said Teo Yatman, vice
president of sales, Sigrity. ``The capabilities of our advanced power
analysis tool are complementary to the ICX design flow.''
Sophisticated power plane analysis capabilities are required to
design power and ground distribution systems for the most complex,
high-speed PCB designs, such as those for advanced applications within
the military and aerospace, telecommunications and computing
industries. To ensure the accurate design of these systems, SPEED2000
will allow ICX users to perform studies of decoupling capacitor
placement, analyses of power and ground bounce, evaluation of signal
return path discontinuities, and modeling of noise coupling between
power and signal distribution systems. It also allows the estimation
of electromagnetic radiation from signal traces and edges of power
planes.
Using patented technologies, SPEED2000 performs detailed
electrical analyses of power and signal distribution systems on entire
circuit chip carriers or PCBs to model power and ground fluctuations
and the effects of signal return current path discontinuities.
SPEED2000's fast simulation gives it distinct advantages over other
solutions available today, allowing for fine numerical meshes to be
used when performing analysis to accurately model detailed structures,
such as cuts and slots in planes and multiple power and ground layer
structures.
Mentor's ICX solution combines the electrical and physical aspects
of a design, providing an integrated design and verification
environment for signal integrity and timing analysis during layout.
This environment uses true electrical rules to drive the placement and
routing of high-speed boards, ensuring electrically-correct designs
the first time.
By integrating the ICX environment with SPEED2000, ICX users gain
highly detailed analysis functionality to evaluate the effect that
power and ground structures will have on a design as it is being
implemented. This integration, which leverages the electrical setup
done within ICX, is more efficient than other solutions because it
minimizes the set-up time required within SPEED2000, and eliminates
the need for time-consuming duplication of work when the design data
is transferred.
Pricing and Availability
This capability will be available to ICX users in October 2001. At
that time, Mentor Graphics and Sigrity will make the new interface
available for free to existing ICX and SPEED2000 users.
About SIGRITY Incorporated
SIGRITY, INC. is a privately held U.S. corporation established in
1994 and incorporated in 1998. SIGRITY provides software tools and
services to enable the rapid development of high-performance products
in an environment of ever-increasing circuit speed and packaging
complexity. The core technologies for the fast electromagnetic
computation methodologies used in SPEED2000 were granted two U.S.
patents. SIGRITY received the National Science Foundation Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award Phase I in 1996, Phase II in
1997 and Phase IIB in 2000. SIGRITY's first software package, SPEED97,
was released at the end of 1997 -- followed by a major upgrade,
SPEED2000, in July of 2000. The SPEED tools have been adopted by
leading companies in computer, networking, communications and consumer
electronics markets. Corporate headquarters are located at 4675
Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 130, Santa Clara, CA 95051. World Wide Web
site: www.sigrity.com.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) is a world leader in
electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most
successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in
1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of more
than $600 million and employs approximately 2,975 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. ICX is a trademark and OpenDoor is a servicemark of
Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are
the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact:
Mentor Graphics
Debra Layton, 720/494-1043
debra_layton@mentor.com
or
Benjamin Group/BSMG Worldwide
Emily Taylor, 503/283-8800
emily_taylor@benjamingroup.com
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