Mentor Graphics Announces User2User 2006 Best Paper Award Winners.

WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) today announced the Best Paper Award Winners for its recent international user conference, User2User (U2U) 2006. U2U 2006 presentations and papers are available at www.mentor.com/user2user.

Al Wainwright -- L-3                 Jennifer Stephenson -- Altera
 Communications                      FPGA: FPGA Incremental
Board Station: All Dimensions         Compilation -- Divide and
 Resolved!                            Conquer

YoungJun Yun -- Samsung              Arthur Freitas -- Hyperstone
Custom IC/AMS: Design of SOG with    Functional Verification:
 p-Si TFT using AMS Simulation for    Accelerating System Verification
 AMOLEDs                              using C Model Integration and
                                      SystemVerilog DPI

Floyd Moore -- HP                    Jim Peterson -- Honeywell
Design Environment: Open Source      High-Speed: Timing Numbers from
 License Management                   ICX -- What Do We Do With Them?

Al Crouch -- Inovys                  Laurent Salager --
DFT: Structural Test Output and       STMicroelectronics
 Data Collection for Yield           IC Nanometer: Introducing New
 Enhancement                          Devices in Calibre SVRF Rule
                                      File of Mature Technologies

Jeff Kauppila -- ISDE, Vanderbilt    Tom Hausherr -- PCB Libraries
 University                          PADS: The CAD Library in the
DxDesigner: Radiation-Enabled         Design Environment
 Analog/Mixed Signal ASICs in
 DxSim with Eldo and Verilog-A

Ben Davis -- Scientific-Atlanta, A
 Cisco Company
Expedition: Planning and Executing
 Designs in Xtreme PCB

User2User 2006 was held May 2 through May 5, 2006, in San Jose, California, and was attended by approximately 500 Mentor customers from 12 countries. The conference, designed to provide users of Mentor Graphics' tools with an opportunity to network and interact with other engineers utilizing the same or similar products, featured approximately 148 technical sessions, 65 percent of which were presented by customers from 75 different companies.

"This year's strong attendance is continued evidence that User2User is an increasingly valuable environment for sharing and networking among Mentor users from around the world," said outgoing Customer Advisory Board chairperson Farrokh F. Shoar. "Many users commented on the consistently strong technical content of the sessions, and how it provided them with practical knowledge of immediate help in their jobs. Our new management track was very successful in making the conference of benefit to technical and business managers, too."

Keynotes were presented by Rick Tumlinson, co-founder of the Space Frontier Foundation and recognized by Space News as one of the top 100 influential people in the field of space; Nick Baker of Microsoft, who is currently director of the software giant's Xbox console architecture team, system verification and console test software; and Walden C. Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics.

About Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) 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 electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of over $700 million and employs approximately 4,000 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.

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