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Mentor Graphics: Vendor Independence for FPGA Designs

Daniel Platzker, Product Line Director at Mentor Graphics, discusses the value of an independent FPGA tool provider. In his opinion, Mentor Graphics is the clear EDA leader because they are the only company with the complete flow: Design Creation, Verification, Synthesis and PCB tools. The list of Mentor products is too long to mention here, but here are just a few: Catapult™ and Vista™ tools allow for high levels of abstraction, HDL Designer™ allows for efficient design creation, re-use and documentation, and the Precision® product family is used for FPGA synthesis.

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About Mentor Graphics

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 the design challenges they face in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design. The Embedded Systems Division helps developers accelerate product time-to-market in a wide range of embedded applications. Mentor’s full-featured Nucleus Real Time OS incorporates services including real time kernel, networking, graphics, file system, USB and secure communications, complemented by EDGE developer suite including Eclipse-based IDE, optimized compilers, debuggers, profiler and simulation environment. [FPGA, ASIC, Embedded, RTOS, PCB]

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