Mentor product development was located in the US, Taiwan, Egypt, Poland, Hungary, Japan, France, Canada, Pakistan, UK, Armenia, India and Russia.
Integrated circuit layout full-custom and schematic-driven layout (SDL) tools such as IC Station or Memory Builder, a first industry tool for rapid embedded memory design that helped to develop single- or dual-port RAM (synchronous and asynchronous), as well as diffusion and metal read only memories (ROM)
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IC Verification tools such as Calibre nmDRC, Calibre nmLVS, Calibre xRC, Calibre xACT 3D, Calibre xACT
IC Design for Manufacturing tools such as Calibre LFD, Calibre YieldEnhancer, Calibre, and YieldAnalyzer
Schematic capture editors for electronic schematics such as Xpedition Designer
Layout and design tools for printed circuit boards with programs such as PADS, Xpedition Layout, HyperLynx and Valor NPI
Falcon Framework, software application framework
Component library management tools
IP cores for ASIC and FPGA designs
Embedded systems
Mentor Embedded Linux for ARM, MIPS, Power, and x86 architecture 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)
AUTOSAR implementation:
Embedded implementation VSTAR in part acquired from Mecel in 2013
Configuration tooling Volcano Vehicle Systems Builder (VSB)
Development Tools:
Sourcery CodeBench and Sourcery GNU toolchains (acquired in 2010 when Mentor acquired CodeSourcery)
Inflexion UI – (Next Device was acquired by Mentor in 2006)
xtUML Design Tools: BridgePoint (acquired in 2004 when Mentor acquired Project Technology)
VPN Solutions:
Nucleus Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) software
Nucleus NET networking stack
Nucleus implementation of the Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) protocol
Nucleus PPP software
FPGA synthesis
Precision Synthesis – Advanced RTL & physical synthesis for FPGAs
Electrical systems, cabling, and harness
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
ModelSim is 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/UVM whereas ModelSim does not.
Eldo is a SPICE simulator
Xpedition AMS is a virtual lab for mechatronic system design and analysis
ADiT is a Fast-SPICE simulator
Questa ADMS is a mixed-signal verification tool
Emulation
The Veloce product family enables SoC emulation and transaction-based acceleration to verify and rectify issues on HDL designs prefabrication.
Mechanical design
Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer tools:
Simcenter Flotherm is a Computational Fluid Dynamics tool dedicated to electronics cooling using parameterized 'SmartParts' for common electronic components such as fans, heatsinks, and IC packages.
Simcenter Flotherm XT is an electronics cooling CFD 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 total flux, chromaticity and correlated color temperature (CCT) for power LEDs. With T3Ster it provides thermal resistance metrics for LEDs based on the real dissipated heating power.
Simcenter DYNTIM extends T3Ster, providing a dynamic thermal test station for thermal conductivity measurements of thermal interface materials (TIMs), thermal greases and gap pads.
Simcenter Flomaster is a 1D or system-level CFD solution for analyzing fluid mechanics in complex pipe flow systems (from the acquisition of Flowmaster Ltd in 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).
