Mentor Graphics Announces OASIS Stream File Format Ready for Production, 10X-50X File Size Reduction Benefit Confirmed
WILSONVILLE, Ore.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 14, 2004—
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) today
announced that the Calibre(R) product line is accepting OASIS files
and supporting OASIS output in the upcoming 2004.3 production release
scheduled for September 2004. It includes the GDS-to-OASIS translator,
which was previously made publicly available for validation and
verification of the new format.
Beta test partners, selected from among the world's major
semiconductor developers, foundries and mask manufacturers, translated
thousands of files, proving overall flow efficiency and confirming a
file size reduction of 10X to 50X.
To date, Mentor has provided more than 160 downloads of the
GDS-to-OASIS translation utility, which is available free of charge at
www.mentor.com/calibre, and is generally used as a reference for
OASIS-related development activities in the industry. Now that the
tool is production proven, the OASIS translator will be an included
feature in the Calibre releases, available to all Calibre customers.
"We delivered on a new technology that not only benefits the
Calibre customers but the industry as a whole," said Joe Sawicki, vice
president and general manager, Design to Silicon Division, Mentor
Graphics. "With OASIS we now have a platform enabling us to put in
place a robust, value-added connection between design and
manufacturing."
OASIS was created in response to the need for more efficient
handling of growing data volumes and is designed to replace the
current GDS format. This new encapsulated format offers substantial
improvements in data volume efficiency, up to 50X reduction in
hierarchical data volume compared to GDSII, and 2X and more reduction
in flat data volume compared to mask writing formats. OASIS is
expected to become the new standard for data exchange between design
teams, wafer manufacturers and mask suppliers, offering a new
bandwidth in information exchange along with the most efficient data
representation. OASIS will be a crucial link in future
design-for-manufacture applications.
Mentor Graphics was involved in the development of OASIS from the
inception, donating the initial framework of the specification,
serving for many months as editor of the draft specification, then
developing and contributing the translator utility. Mentor's engineers
have published several research papers on OASIS; papers can be
downloaded from the Mentor Web site at
http://www.mentor.com/dsm/techpapers.
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 about
$675 million and employs approximately 3,800 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: http://www.mentor.com/.
Mentor Graphics and Calibre are registered trademarks of Mentor
Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the
registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact:
Mentor Graphics
Nan Devlin, 503-685-1809
nan_devlin@mentor.com
Suzanne Graham, 503-685-7789
suzanne_graham@mentor.com
