Mentor Graphics Endorses SystemVerilog from Accellera
Announces Product Availability Plans
NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2002--Mentor Graphics
Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT - News) today announced support for SystemVerilog,
the recently announced standard from Accellera. Mentor plans to
incorporate the new standard into a range of its tools, with
availability beginning in 2003.
"We believe that the evolutionary approach that SystemVerilog
offers is a better path forward for Verilog designers," said Walden C.
Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics®. "By building on what
engineers are already using today, we preserve the significant
investment people have in Verilog, while allowing a higher level of
abstraction in design. We intend to support this standard across the
range of our IC and programmable logic design products."
"Model Technology(TM) enthusiastically endorses the approval of
SystemVerilog as the next-generation Verilog standard," said Robert
Hum, vice president and general manager of Mentor's Model Technology
and Design-For-Test tools. "SystemVerilog is the logical migration
path for today's Verilog users, and we are adding support for
SystemVerilog to our industry-leading, mixed-language simulator,
ModelSim®."
"SystemVerilog offers significant improvements for modeling of
interfaces at higher levels of design abstraction. This will result in
direct performance benefits to the users of Seamless®, Mentor's
market-leading Hardware/Software Co-Verification product," said Serge
Leef, general manager of Mentor's SoC Verification business unit.
"New verification methodologies and capabilities are now critical
to design success", said Phil Bishop, vice president and general
manager of Mentor's Consulting division. "SystemVerilog is a
significant step forward in the effectiveness and efficiency of unit
testing, in a form that can be easily assimilated by the design
community."
Availability
Beginning in 2003, Mentor will support SystemVerilog across a
number of its IC and programmable logic design tools, including
ModelSim, Seamless Hardware/Software Co-Verification, HDL Designer
Series(TM), Precision(TM) Synthesis and emulation products.
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT - News) 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 about
$600 million and employs approximately 3,500 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, Calif. 95131-2314. World
Wide Web site: www.mentor.com.
Mentor Graphics, ModelSim and Seamless are registered trademark
sof Mentor Graphics Corporation. Model Technology, Precision and HDL
Designer are trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other
company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks
of their respective owners.
Contact:
Mentor Graphics
Suzanne Graham, 503/685-7789
suzanne_graham@mentor.com
or
Weber Shandwick
Dean Rodgers, 503/552-3720
drodgers@webershandwick.com
