Alcatel Site Standardizes on Mentor Graphics PCB Design Tools to Reduce Costs and Improve Efficiency.Business Editors, Technology Writers WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2003 Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT), the market leader in printed circuit board (PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. ) design, today announced that Alcatel's Raleigh, N.C. location has chosen the Mentor Graphics(R) Board Station(R) PCB design suite to standardize its design flows and methodologies. Completely replacing Alcatel's existing PCB design tools, the Mentor Graphics solution will allow people at Alcatel's Raleigh location to share libraries and design data for improved efficiency, integration and shorter design cycles. To complete the new PCB design flow, the Alcatel Raleigh site also selected Mentor's state-of-the-art ICX ICX Inter-Cartridge Exchange ICX Incoming Exchange ICX Intelligence Express ICX Internet College Exchange ICX Internet Content Accelerator (TM) signal integrity tools and AutoActive(R) routing environment. The Alcatel Raleigh location implementation is expected to be complete by the beginning of 2003. "In order to maximize the productivity of our design teams we were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a PCB design flow with the library capabilities to support design collaboration and design reuse," said Mike Zeeff, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Alcatel. "After evaluating a range of industry-leading PCB design solutions, we found that Mentor's tools best met our needs." "Board Station strongly supports the concurrent design, data management and system customization requirements of an enterprise environment like Alcatel's," said Henry Potts, general manager and vice president, systems design division, Mentor Graphics. "By establishing a design flow that integrates the industry's best routing technology and leading signal integrity analysis capabilities, Alcatel's design teams will be able to collaborate even more effectively." The Board Station Family From concept to manufacture, the Board Station family of products combine sophisticated enterprise design solutions with the power of AutoActive technology to allow users to speed time-to-market while maintaining a design anywhere and build anywhere process. Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $600 million and employs approximately 3,700 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon Wilsonville is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 13,991 at the 2000 census, and as of 2005 was estimated to be 16,510.[1] Geography Wilsonville is located at (45.306805, -122. 97070-7777; Silicon Valley headquarters are located at 1001 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. 95131-2314. World Wide Web site: www.mentor.com. Mentor Graphics, Board Station and AutoActive are registered trademarks and ICX is a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. |
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