Mentor Graphics Platform Express is the First Platform-Based Design Solution to Support The SPIRIT Consortium's New Specification.WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- 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 NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MENT) today announced support for The SPIRIT Consortium's new 1.2 XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. specification in the newest release of the Platform Express(TM) product. This latest specification from The SPIRIT Consortium includes a variety of enhancements designed to accelerate the design and verification of large system-on-chip (SoC) solutions and enable tighter integration among intellectual property (IP) and EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. tools throughout the design chain. Platform Express v3.3.0 takes full advantage of the new specification's verification IP enhancements, providing a new set of generators that support 0-In(R) Checkerware verification IP as well as PSL 1. PSL - Portable Standard Lisp. 2. PSL - Problem Statement Language. See PSL/PSA. and OVL OVL Oval (street type) OVL Open Verification Library OVL Program Overlay (File Name Extension) OVL Oxford Vehicle Leasing (UK) OVL Officier Vlieger assertions. The product also features direct links to the Mentor Graphics Questa(TM) verification environment, and provides a framework for enabling other verification formats. "Mentor Graphics was the key developer of the core technology behind The SPIRIT Consortium's proposed specification. Since donating that technology, Mentor has continued to advance the specification by developing design tools that bring the benefits of the specification to the end user," said Serge Leef, general manager, System-Level Engineering Division, Mentor Graphics. "With this new version of Platform Express, Mentor is giving designers powerful verification options that promise to further increase the efficiency of RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; IP reuse." Platform Express enables users to automate the creation of SoC designs from IP, documented through The Consortium's 1.2 XML specification, in minutes. Using the tool and its large number of sophisticated generators, SoC designers can rapidly create and verify their system designs by automating complex, error-prone design creation, IP integration, power domain creation, software generation, verification steps and a configurable build environment to enable easy design hand-off. Based on standards throughout, Platform Express is supplied in Eclipse plug-in format, enabling the tool to operate as part of a larger, customized, design environment. The SPIRIT Consortium's specification uses XML to create a machine-interpretable IP databook that includes design information that software tools then use to automatically configure and integrate an IP block into a design. After several years of development, The SPIRIT Consortium states that specification 1.2 provides a complete platform for IP-based design and verification. About Mentor Graphics 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 over $700 million and employs approximately 4,000 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. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/. Mentor Graphics and 0-In are registered trademarks and Platform Express and Questa are trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. |
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