Booth #604

Wilsonville, OR USA phone: 800-547-3000 www.mentor.com

Mentor Graphics® is a technology leader in electronic design automation (EDA), providing software and hardware design solutions that enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. The company offers innovative products and solutions that help engineers overcome design challenges faced in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design. Mentor Graphics has the broadest industry portfolio of best-in-class products. Stop by booth 604 to see the latest advances in design technology.

To combine the knowledge of an engineer, the skill of a board designer, and the power of an autorouter, Mentor Graphics has developed a powerful topology planning and routing technology. This technology provides automated planning tools for the engineer to evaluate and plan bus-system interconnects early in the design phase, thus eliminating the need for paper designs. No more sketching design plans on paper or having engineers standing over the shoulder of a designer while they work. Instead, Topology Planner and Router provides a fully automated planning process and a powerful auto-router that produces the same quality designs as the old manual process.

Companies are looking for ways to more efficiently leverage their design team and hardware resources. A company will often have servers and individual computers sitting idle during a location's off-hours. The ability to leverage these machines, whether located in the same site or across the world, to complete complex batch operations, such as routing, is something that wasn't available before. Now, utilizing XtremeAR, companies are able to incorporate a wide variety of geographically distributed computational resources and present them as a single, unified resource, solving large-scale compute and data intensive computing applications. With XtremeAR, designers can execute batch auto-routing on up to 15 processors, simultaneously reducing auto-routing times by up to 10x. This means that utilizing normally idle or inactive machines can reduce routing times on large, mostly digital boards from days to hours. The productivity and design cycle time savings are obvious. In addition, a designer can improve the performance, cost and quality of a product by implementing several trial placement and routing scenarios and choosing the best one.