Sun and Mentor Graphics

You're building innovative new electronic products. You need high-speed routing and verification, advanced packaging, concurrent team design, FPGA-on-board integration, and design data management. And you need it on powerful, cost-effective systems. You need Sun and Mentor Graphics.

Mentor Graphics Corporation is a technology leader in electronic design automation (EDA), providing software and hardware design solutions that enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and more cost-effectively. The company offers innovative products and solutions that help engineers overcome the design challenges they face in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design.

Alliance Overview

Sun and Mentor Graphics have worked together for over 15 years, continuously strengthening a multifaceted relationship. Mentor Graphics uses Sun hardware to develop applications on the Solaris Operating System for both SPARC and x64 platforms. Sun utilizes Mentor Graphics software to design integrated circuits. And both companies work together to deliver innovative solutions that power MDA activities.

Solutions At a Glance

Calibre (LVS, DRC, OPC)

Calibre LVS delivers production-proven device extraction for physical verification, including physical device parameters as seen in the actual layout. Calibre nmDRC, with the new Hyperscaling processing architecture, produces best-in-class DRC run times with scalability to 100 CPUs. Calibre nmOPC is a third-generation optical proximity correction (OPC) tool that expands the Calibre arsenal of resolution enhancement technology (RET) products for sub-65 nanometer (nm) process technologies.

ModelSIM SE

ModelSim SE (Special Edition) is a UNIX, Linux, and Windows-based simulation and debug environment, combining high performance with a powerful and intuitive GUI.

Board Station

By combining ease-of-use with advanced functionality, Board Station XE offers designers the leading technology for creating todays most complex designs.