Mentor Graphics Precision Synthesis Tool Family Supports

Mentor Graphics Precision Synthesis Tool Family Supports Altera’s Stratix IV GT and Arria II GX FPGA Devices

WILSONVILLE, Ore.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 9, 2009— Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) today announced that its Precision^® Synthesis family of products supports Altera Corporation’s 40 nanometer (nm) Stratix^® IV GT and Arria^® II GX field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The Stratix IV GT and Arria II GX FPGAs expand Altera’s family of transceiver FPGA solutions to address a wide range of applications. Mentor Graphics Precision Synthesis product offers immediate synthesis support for Stratix IV GT and Arria II GX FPGAs, allowing customers to leverage Altera’s latest transceiver technology and quickly achieve design closure.

"Mentor Graphics' software delivers customers the technology necessary to obtain high quality results with our devices," said Danny Biran, senior vice president of product and corporate marketing at Altera Corporation. "With its ability to manage advanced, leading-edge 40nm FPGA architectures, Precision Synthesis is well suited for our portfolio of FPGAs with embedded transceivers."

Stratix IV GT and Arria II GX FPGAs feature integrated high-speed transceivers well suited for a variety of applications such as communications systems, high-end test equipment, and military communications equipment. Altera and Mentor Graphics continue to work closely together to ensure comprehensive design synthesis support for Altera’s latest state-of-the-art technology. Mentor’s Precision Synthesis support for these devices is available to customers now.

“Altera’s FPGAs with transceivers continue to enable the development of next-generation, high-end applications in several markets, including 40-Gigabit and 100-Gigabit Ethernet systems,” stated Simon Bloch, vice president and general manager, Mentor Graphics design and synthesis division. “Our commitment to high-performance synthesis for Altera’s latest transceiver FPGA products will greatly benefit our mutual customers in developing leading-edge applications for the telecommunications market.”

Precision Synthesis: The Centerpiece of Mentor Graphics FPGA Flow

The Precision Synthesis tool forms the centerpiece of the Mentor Graphics FPGA flow — the industry's most comprehensive vendor-independent solution for FPGA design. It’s the only synthesis tool which offers true push-button, multi-vendor physical synthesis for achieving the best quality of results. With comprehensive language support, including SystemVerilog, advanced ASIC prototyping flow and automatic incremental synthesis, the Precision Synthesis tool is uniquely suited to handle today’s high-end FPGAs. The Precision Synthesis tool features award-winning design analysis capability, allowing designers to cross-probe between multiple views as well as perform interactive static timing "what-if" analyses. The Precision Synthesis tool reduces design iterations, and enables faster, more predictable completion of designs, while delivering high quality of results.

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