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Mentor Graphics Enterprise Verification Platform Delivers New Levels of Performance and Low Power Verification ProductivityWILSONVILLE, Ore., June 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights:
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced enhancements to the Mentor® Enterprise Verification Platform (EVP) that offer new levels of performance and productivity across the platform in simulation, debug, formal, coverage closure and low power verification. PERFORMANCE "After just a few months of use, Visualizer has led to dramatically improved verification performance," said Ramesh Shanmugam, Pixelworks senior manager of verification and methodology. "This is largely because the way it's used — for post-processing analysis of simulation data — is a much more efficient, higher-throughput means of debugging than using a simulator in interactive mode." In coverage-driven verification flows, often the time it takes to merge coverage results from hundreds if not thousands of individual tests cn be a major verification performance bottleneck. The Questa Verification Management now collects and analyzes coverage data up to 10X faster with enhanced merging and ranking technology. It quickly generates a unified coverage database (UCDB) that can be accessed by the Accellera UCIS standard interchange format, enabling users to quickly assess their current quality of verification and reduce their coverage closure time. The Questa Formal engine, now up to 8X faster, speeds up verification with its increasing number of formal apps such as clock domain crossing (CDC), property checking, X-state analysis, connectivity checking, and security checking. The Questa Formal works seamlessly with and perfectly complements the Questa Simulation such that the performance improvements to both engines deliver faster overall time to results, and enables customers to pull in their verification schedules and improve end-product quality. LOW POWER For power-aware debug, the Visualizer Debug Environment provides a complete set of windows that enable users to see all UPF-generated structures; power domains, source/sync crossings, isolation, shifters, etc. plus any UPF violations and waveforms of corruptions in one tool. Its unified schematic views and highlights of UPF instrumentations directly in the RTL source help verification engineers easily understand and explore the power management structures within the context of the RTL design. "Our customers demand high-performance verification engines that achieve the fastest results in all facets of the verification flow: regression testing, debug and coverage," said John Lenyo, vice president and general manager, Design Verification Technology Division, Mentor Graphics. "The Mentor Enterprise Verification platform delivers best-in-class performance, productivity and low power analysis in a single, integrated verification platform." The latest simulation performance, productivity and low power verification gains are available in the Questa 10.4 release that is available immediately. About Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronic, semiconductor and systems companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last fiscal year in excess of $1.24 billion. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/. Mentor Graphics, Mentor and Questa are registered trademarks and Visualizer is a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. For more information, please contact: Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140317/AQ83812LOGO
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