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Mentor Graphics Platform Express is the First Platform-Based Design Solution to Support The SPIRIT Consortium's New Specification
WILSONVILLE, Ore.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 2, 2006—
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) today
announced support for The SPIRIT Consortium's new 1.2 XML
specification in the newest release of the Platform Express(TM)
product. This latest specification from The SPIRIT Consortium includes
a variety of enhancements designed to accelerate the design and
verification of large system-on-chip (SoC) solutions and enable
tighter integration among intellectual property (IP) and EDA tools
throughout the design chain.
Platform Express v3.3.0 takes full advantage of the new
specification's verification IP enhancements, providing a new set of
generators that support 0-In(R) Checkerware verification IP as well as
PSL and OVL assertions. The product also features direct links to the
Mentor Graphics Questa(TM) verification environment, and provides a
framework for enabling other verification formats.
"Mentor Graphics was the key developer of the core technology
behind The SPIRIT Consortium's proposed specification. Since donating
that technology, Mentor has continued to advance the specification by
developing design tools that bring the benefits of the specification
to the end user," said Serge Leef, general manager, System-Level
Engineering Division, Mentor Graphics. "With this new version of
Platform Express, Mentor is giving designers powerful verification
options that promise to further increase the efficiency of RTL IP
reuse."
Platform Express enables users to automate the creation of SoC
designs from IP, documented through The Consortium's 1.2 XML
specification, in minutes. Using the tool and its large number of
sophisticated generators, SoC designers can rapidly create and verify
their system designs by automating complex, error-prone design
creation, IP integration, power domain creation, software generation,
verification steps and a configurable build environment to enable easy
design hand-off. Based on standards throughout, Platform Express is
supplied in Eclipse plug-in format, enabling the tool to operate as
part of a larger, customized, design environment.
The SPIRIT Consortium's specification uses XML to create a
machine-interpretable IP databook that includes design information
that software tools then use to automatically configure and integrate
an IP block into a design. After several years of development, The
SPIRIT Consortium states that specification 1.2 provides a complete
platform for IP-based design and verification.
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 over
$700 million and employs approximately 4,000 people worldwide.
Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road,
Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/.
Mentor Graphics and 0-In are registered trademarks and Platform
Express and Questa 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
Nate James, 503-685-0449
Email Contact
or
Sonia Harrison, 503-685-1165
Email Contact
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