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Mentor Graphics

Coordinates:45°19′10″N122°45′46″W/ 45.31944°N 122.76278°W/45.31944; -122.76278
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Mentor Graphics Corporation
Company typePrivate[1]
IndustryEDA,Embedded Software
Founded1981
FounderTom BruggereEdit this on Wikidata
FateAcquired bySiemensand merged intoSiemens Digital Industries Software
HeadquartersWilsonville, Oregon,
United States
45°19′10″N122°45′46″W/ 45.31944°N 122.76278°W/45.31944; -122.76278
ProductsNucleus OS,Sourcery CodeBench, ModelSim/QuestaSim, Calibre, Veloce
RevenueIncrease$1.28BUSD(2017)[2]
Increase$155 millionUSD(2017)[2]
Total assets
  • IncreaseUS$ 1.745284 billion (2013)[3]
  • IncreaseUS$ 1.550675 billion (2012)[4]
Number of employees
5,968 (2017)[5]

Mentor Graphics Corporationwas aUS-basedelectronic design automation(EDA)multinational corporationforelectrical engineeringandelectronics,headquartered inWilsonville,Oregon. Founded in 1981, the company distributed products that assist inelectronic design automation,simulation tools for analog mixed-signal design,VPNsolutions, andfluid dynamicsand heat transfer tools. The company leveragedApollo Computerworkstationsto differentiate itself within thecomputer-aided engineering(CAE) market with itssoftwareandhardware.

Mentor Graphics was acquired bySiemensin 2017. The name was retired in 2021 and renamedSiemens EDA,a segment ofSiemens Digital Industries Software.

History

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Mentor Graphics was founded in 1981 byTom Bruggere,Gerry Langeler, and Dave Moffenbeier, all formerly ofTektronix.[6]The company raised $55 million in funding through aninitial public offeringin 1984.[6]

Mentor initially wrote software that ran only inApolloworkstations.[7]

When Mentor entered the CAE market the company had two technical differentiators: the first was the software – Mentor, Valid, and Daisy each had software with different strengths and weaknesses. The second, was the hardware – Mentor ran all programs on the Apollo workstation, while Daisy and Valid each built their own hardware. By the late 1980s, all EDA companies abandoned proprietary hardware in favor of workstations manufactured by companies such as Apollo andSun Microsystems.

After a frenzied development, the IDEA 1000 product was introduced at the 1982Design Automation Conference,though in a suite and not on the floor.[8]

Mentor Graphics was purchased bySiemensin 2017. The name was retired in 2021 and renamed Siemens EDA, a segment ofSiemens Digital Industries Software.[9]

Acquisitions

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Timeline

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Year announced Company Business Value (USD) References
1995 Microtec Research Software development $130 million [10]
1999 VeriBest EDA subsidiary of Intergraph Corp. not disclosed [11][12]
2002 Accelerated Technology RTOS& embedded software not disclosed [13]
2002 Innoveda Printed circuit board &wire harnessdesign $160 million [14]
2002 IKOS Systems Emulation product $124 million [15]
2004 Project Technology Executable UML not disclosed [16]
2007 Sierra Design Automation Place and route $90 million [17]
2008 Flomerics Computational fluid dynamics $59.72 million [18]
2009 LogicVision Siliconmanufacturing testing $13 million [19]
2010 Valor Computerized Systems PCBsystems manufacturing $82 million [20]
2010 CodeSourcery GNU-based tools not disclosed [21]
2014 Nimbic Electromagneticsimulation not disclosed [22]
2014 Berkeley Design Automation AMS circuit verification not disclosed [23]
2015 Tanner EDA AMS&MEMSintegrated circuits not disclosed [24]
2015 Calypto Design Systems High level synthesis not disclosed [25]
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  • In June 2008,Cadence Design Systemsoffered to acquire Mentor Graphics in aleveraged buyout.On 15 August 2008, Cadence withdrew this offer quoting an inability to raise the necessary capital and the unwillingness of Mentor Graphics' Board and management to discuss the offer.[26]
  • In February 2011, activist investorCarl Icahnoffered to buy the company for about $1.86 billion in cash.[27]
  • In November 2016, Mentor Graphics announced that it was to be acquired bySiemensfor $4.5 billion,[28]at $37.25 per share, a 21% premium on Mentor's closing price on the previous Friday.[29]The acquisition was completed in March 2017.[30]At this time, this represented Siemen's biggest deal in the industrial software sector.[31]Mentor Graphics started to operate as "Mentor, a Siemens Business".[32]Under the terms of the acquisition, Mentor Graphics kept its headquarters in Wilsonville with workforce intact, and operated as an independent subsidiary.[1]
  • In January 2021, Mentor became a division of Siemens and was renamed as Siemens EDA.[33]

Locations

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Mentor product development was located in the US, Taiwan, Egypt, Poland, Hungary, Japan, France, Canada, Pakistan, UK, Armenia, India and Russia.

Products

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Mentor offered the following tools:

Electronic design automation

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Embedded systems

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  • Mentor Embedded Linux[35]for ARM, MIPS, Power, andx86architecture processors
  • Real-time operating systems:
    • Nucleus OS(acquired in 2002 when Mentor acquired Accelerated Technology, Inc.)
    • VRTX(acquired in 1995 when Mentor bought Microtec Research)
  • AUTOSARimplementation:
    • Embedded implementation VSTAR in part acquired from Mecel in 2013[36]
    • Configuration tooling Volcano Vehicle Systems Builder (VSB)
  • Development Tools:
    • Sourcery CodeBench and Sourcery GNUtoolchains(acquired in 2010 when Mentor acquired CodeSourcery)
  • Inflexion UI – (Next Device was acquired by Mentor in 2006)
    • xtUMLDesign Tools: BridgePoint (acquired in 2004 when Mentor acquired Project Technology)
  • VPN Solutions:

FPGA synthesis

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  • Precision Synthesis – Advanced RTL & physical synthesis for FPGAs

Electrical systems, cabling, and harness

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  • Capital – a suite of integrated tools for the design, validation and manufacture of electrical systems and harnesses
  • VeSys – a mid-market toolset for vehicle electrical system and harness design

Simulation

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  • ModelSimis a hardware simulation and debug environment primarily targeted at smaller ASIC and FPGA design
  • QuestaSim is a simulator with advanced debug capabilities targeted at complex FPGA's and SoC's. QuestaSim can be used by users who have experience with ModelSim as it shares most of the common debug features and capabilities. One of the main differences between QuestaSim and Modelsim (besides performance/capacity) is that QuestaSim is the simulation engine for the Questa Platform which includes integration of Verification Management, Formal based technologies, Questa Verification IP, Low Power Simulation and Accelerated Coverage Closure technologies. QuestaSim natively supports SystemVerilog for Testbench,UPF,UCIS, OVM/UVMwhere ModelSim does not.
  • Eldois aSPICEsimulator
  • Xpedition AMS is a virtual lab formechatronicsystem design and analysis
  • ADiT is a Fast-SPICE simulator
  • Questa ADMS is a mixed-signal verification tool

Emulation

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Mechanical design

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  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer tools:
    • Simcenter Flotherm is aComputational Fluid Dynamicstool dedicated toelectronics coolingusing parameterized 'SmartParts' for common electronic components such as fans,heatsinks,andICpackages.
    • Simcenter Flotherm XT is anelectronics coolingCFD tool incorporating a solid modeler for manipulating MCAD parts.
    • Simcenter FLOEFD is a 'design concurrent' CFD tool for use in early-stage product design and is embedded within MCAD systems such as Solidworks, Creo Elements/Pro, CATIA V5 and Siemens NX.
  • Thermal Characterization and Thermal Interface Material (TIM) Measurement equipment:
    • Simcenter T3STER is a hardware product that embodies an implementation of the JEDEC JESD51-1 standard for IC package thermal characterization and is compliant with JESD51-14 for Rth-JC measurement.
    • Simcenter TERALED provides automation of the CIE 127:2007 standard providing totalflux,chromaticityandcorrelated color temperature(CCT) for powerLEDs.With T3Ster it providesthermal resistancemetrics for LEDs based on the real dissipated heating power.
    • Simcenter DYNTIM extends T3Ster, providing a dynamic thermal test station forthermal conductivitymeasurements of thermal interface materials (TIMs),thermal greasesand gap pads.
  • Simcenter Flomaster is a 1D or system-level CFD solution for analyzing fluid mechanics in complex pipe flow systems (from the acquisition ofFlowmaster Ltdin 2012).
  • CADRA Design Drafting is a 2-1/2D mechanical drafting and documentation package specifically designed for drafting professionals. It provides the tools needed to develop complex drawings quickly and easily (from the acquisition of the CADRA product in 2013).

See also

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References

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  2. ^ab"Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter Results"(PDF).Retrieved2018-01-22.
  3. ^"MENTOR GRAPHICS CORP 2013 Q3 Quarterly Report Form (10-Q)"(XBRL).United States Securities and Exchange Commission. December 4, 2013.
  4. ^"MENTOR GRAPHICS CORP 2012 Annual Report Form (10-K)"(XBRL).United States Securities and Exchange Commission. March 15, 2013.
  5. ^"MENTOR GRAPHICS CORP 2017 Form 10-K".Retrieved2018-01-22.
  6. ^abRogoway, Mike (March 30, 2017)."Siemens completes $4.5 billion purchase of Mentor Graphics".Oregon Live.RetrievedNovember 4,2022.
  7. ^Fisher, Lawrence M. (8 January 1989)."In Hot Pursuit of Mentor Photos of Mentor's chief executive, Thomas H. Bruggere, with the package deal: Software by Mentor Graphics, running on Apollo hardware (NYT/Brian Drake); the chassis of an Apollo workstation, which uses Mentor's software system".The New York Times.RetrievedNovember 4,2022.
  8. ^The Mentor Graphics Storycopyright 1988 Mentor Graphics Corporation
  9. ^Dahad, Nitin."Mentor Finally Becomes Siemens EDA From January 2021".EE Times.
  10. ^"COMPANY NEWS; MENTOR GRAPHICS TO ACQUIRE MICROTEC RESEARCH (Published 1995)".The New York Times.1995-10-11.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2021-01-23.
  11. ^"Mentor Graphics acquires Intergraph's VeriBest subsidiary".Portland Business Journal.Retrieved2019-03-22.
  12. ^Ascierto, Jerry."Mentor Buys Veribest".EDN.Retrieved2019-03-22.
  13. ^"Mentor acquires RTOS vendor Accelerated Technology".7 March 2002.
  14. ^"Squeeze is on, as Mentor, Cadence make acquisitions".EETimes.Retrieved2019-03-22.
  15. ^Olavsrud, Thor (March 13, 2002)."Mentor Graphics Acquires IKOS".internetnews.Retrieved2023-07-16.
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  17. ^"Mentor buys Sierra Design for $90 million".bizjournals.Silicon Valley Business Journal. 2007-06-11.Retrieved2021-11-10.
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  21. ^"Mentor, RIM buy embedded software firms".2 December 2010.
  22. ^Corp, Mentor Graphics."Mentor Graphics Acquires Nimbic, Inc".prnewswire.Retrieved2021-01-23.
  23. ^Graphics, Mentor."Mentor Graphics Acquires Berkeley Design Automation to Advance Nanometer Analog/Mixed-Signal Verification".prnewswire.Retrieved2021-01-23.
  24. ^"Mentor Graphics Acquires Tanner EDA".Retrieved2017-09-08.
  25. ^Corporation, Mentor Graphics."Mentor Graphics Acquires Calypto Design Systems".prnewswire.Retrieved2021-01-23.
  26. ^"Cadence Withdraws".Retrieved2008-09-18.
  27. ^"Icahn Bids $1.86 Billion for Mentor Graphics, Seeks Offers".Bloomberg.22 February 2011.
  28. ^Machine DesignSiemens Acquires Mentor Graphics for $4.5 BillionRetrieved November 14, 2016
  29. ^"Siemens to expand its digital industrial leadership with acquisition of Mentor Graphics".mentor.Retrieved2016-11-14.
  30. ^Rogoway, Mike."Siemens completes $4.5 billion purchase of Mentor Graphics".The Oregonian/OregonLive.Retrieved30 March2017.
  31. ^"Siemens boosts software business with $4.5 billion deal".Reuters.Retrieved8 April2024.
  32. ^"Mentor, a Siemens Business".
  33. ^"Mentor Finally Becomes Siemens EDA from January 2021".15 December 2020.
  34. ^Krishnakumar, Anish Nallamur (January 20, 2022)."Design and Run-Time Resource Management of Domain-Specific Systems-on-Chip (DSSoCs)"(PDF).eLab: Energy Efficient Embedded Exploration.University of Wisconsin-Madison.Retrieved19 May2023.
  35. ^"Mentor Embedded Linux Development Platform".mentor.Retrieved2016-09-19.
  36. ^"Mentor Graphics acquires Mecel Picea AUTOSAR Development Suite".mentor.Retrieved2016-09-01.
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