Mentor Graphics
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Mentor Graphics, Inc (Nasdaq: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry.
The company distributes the following tools.
- Electronic design automation for
- Integrated circuits
- FPGA
- Embedded systems
- Schematic editors for electronic schematics such as Design Architect or DxDesigner
- Layout tools for printed circuit boards with programs such as PADS, Expedition and Board Station
- Component library management tools
- Intellectual property blocks for ASIC and FPGA designs
- real-time operating systems for embedded systems:
- Nucleus RTOS (acquired in 2002 when Mentor bought Accelerated Technology Inc.)
- VRTX (acquired in 1995 when Mentor bought Microtec Research.)
- Simulation tools for hardware
Mentor has software development sites located around the world but the majority of their developers are located in the United States.
James "Jim" Ready, one of the more colorful people in embedded systems, left Mentor in 1999 to form the embedded Linux company MontaVista.
See also
External links
- Mentor Graphics website (http://www.mentor.com)