Mentor Graphics Turbo-Charges Leading Calibre Tool; Multithreading Increases Performance Five to Six Fold.WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 1999--Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT), the leader in physical verification Physical verification A procedure auditors use to ensure that inventory recorded in the book is correct by actually checking out the physical inventory. of deep submicron integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for designs, today announced a multithreading Multitasking within a single program. It allows multiple streams of execution to take place concurrently within the same program, each stream processing a different transaction or message. option for its industry-standard Calibre(R) physical verification tool. The option takes advantage of economical multiprocessing hardware currently on the market to provide an additional verification speed boost of five to six fold for engineering teams racing advanced chips to market. On newer, high-performance multiprocessing servers available today, the multithreading option can enable an order of a magnitude reduction in turnaround time (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. for physical verification of complex systems-on-a chip. The Calibre tool family is already the performance leader in rapidly ensuring reliability and manufacturability of deep submicron IC designs. "With physical designs for deep submicron ICs growing ever larger, 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. is offering a critical time-to-market advantage," said Brian Derrick derrick: see crane. Derrick famous hangman; eponym of modern hoisting apparatus. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 170] See : Execution , director, Physical Verification Business Unit, Mentor Graphics Corporation. "Now, Calibre can provide engineers with a multithreading speed increase -- on top of its already superior performance -- that enables them to cut verification time of full-chip designs from days to hours. Calibre has become the industry standard in this market because of its speed and ease of use, and multithreading gives our customers an even greater boost with a simple command line option." Proven Performance Increase "The primary advantage of multithreading is its ability to scale performance over a large number of processors, a competitive advantage in verifying large volumes of data," said Jon Gelsey, Calibre product development manager, Mentor Graphics Corporation. "In its initial customer benchmarks, Mentor Graphics' Calibre multithreading product achieved performance increases of up to 6.5 times on eight processors, while maintaining the same level of memory requirements as a single processor run. This is in addition to the performance scaling jump of up to 1.8 times that we've seen on two-processor boxes." Time-Saving Licensing Model An innovative business model enables design team members applying Calibre verification to invoke the multithreading option seamlessly by using the existing license pool. Such a model eliminates the need to purchase special licenses to enable multiprocessor Multiple processors. A multiprocessor machine uses two or more CPUs for routine processing. See multiprocessing. multiprocessor - parallel processing performance. "Having our multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading performance enhancement available through existing license pools enables design teams to quickly get increased performance for critical physical verification runs," said Derrick. Calibre Continues to Grow Market Share The 1998 growth rate of the Calibre tool suite exceeded 200 percent, while the market grew 12 percent. As the leader in the deep submicron physical verification market, the Calibre product is already used at over 60 percent of the top integrated device manufacturers See IDM. worldwide, and at all of the largest Japanese chip manufacturers. Superior Multithreading Architecture Calibre's multithreading architecture, implemented with Posix threads POSIX Threads is a POSIX standard for threads. The standard defines an API for creating and manipulating threads. Libraries implementing the POSIX Threads standard are often named Pthreads. (pthreads), contrasts with the multiprocessing approach favored by other physical verification tools. It eliminates idle processor cycles and greatly increases the efficiency of Calibre's processor and memory utilization. The architecture enables Calibre to scale its performance well beyond the traditional barriers for physical verification tools, allowing it to deliver speed-ups that are more than an order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. faster. However, even two-processor jobs benefit significantly from multithreading's high efficiency. Ease of use is a side benefit of multithreading. Calibre is smart enough, for example, to create a parallel job automatically when invoked, eliminating the need for any user intervention to change rule files or configuration parameters. Pricing and availability The ability to run parallel multithreading is available immediately in the standard Calibre release for multiprocessor Sun, and HP platforms. Through August 1 the two-processor parallel license will run off a single Calibre license. A Calibre node-locked license is priced at $85,000. Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products and 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" for the world's largest electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of $490 million and employs approximately 2,600 people worldwide. Company 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 Calibre are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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