About Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics® 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. Mentor Graphics has the broadest industry portfolio of best-in-class products and is the only EDA company with an embedded software solution.

Mentor Graphics Corporation founded the Higher Education Program in 1985 to further the development of skilled engineers within the electronics industry. The program provides colleges and universities with leading edge design tools for classroom instruction and academic research to help ensure that engineering graduates enter into industry proficient with state-of-the-art tools and techniques.

Through the Higher Education Program, Mentor Graphics strives to develop long term relationships with engineering colleges and universities around the world. Mentor Graphics has partnered with more than 1200 colleges and universities worldwide.

Program Benefits

• Access to millions of dollars worth of Mentor Graphics software for a minimal customer support fee.
• Free access to regular customer training for all faculty/staff in the department.
• Access to technical support services including the SupportNet and Telephone Hotline

Tools offered under HEP

1. Back end tools - IC Nanometer Design- Category 1
2. Front end tools-Design Verification & Test- Category 2
3. PCB Tools - PCB PADS- Category 3b

HEP Tools Details


IC NANOMETER DESIGN PACKAGE - HEP 1:

Mentor Graphics’ IC Nanometer Design package provides a complete environment for the design, cap­ture, layout and verification of analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits.

Package 1 includes all products that incorporate the IC Nanometer Design platform.

• Design Architect-IC - A powerful tool for schematic capture, netlisting, simulation setup and results viewing.

• IC Station - Provides the physical layout componenet of the Mentor Graphics full custom IC design flow. This suite includes application bundles for editing, schematic-driven layout, and top-level floor planning/routing.

• ICassemble - A robust set of features for floor planning, top-level assembly and interactive routing.

• ADVance MS and ADVance MS RF - A language-neutral, mixed-signal simulator that enables top-down design and bottom-up verification of multi-million gate analog/mixed-signal SoC designs.

• Eldo and Eldo RF - An analog simulator offering numerous simulation and modeling options that deliver high-performance and high-speed simulation with the accuracy required by the user.

• Calibre - The industry standard platform for physical verification, offering superior performance and capacity for both flat and hierarchical algorithms.

• Calibre xRC - Accurate transistor-level, gate-level and hierarchical parasitic extraction.

DESIGN, VERIFICATION & TEST PACKAGE - HEP 2:

Mentor Graphics supports a complete flow for the design & verification of complex FPGAs & field pro­grammable SOCs.

Package 2 includes all products that incorporate the Design, verification & test of FPGA and ASIC platform.

• HDL Designer – A graphical HDL design environment that enables scalable RTL design, spanning FPGAs to multimillion gate ASICs. HDL Designer creates & manages complex Verilog, VHDL, & mixed-language ASIC & FPGA designs.

• ModelSim SE™ – The industry’s most widely used verification environment. ModelSim’s single kernel architecture supports all the industry’s standard languages including VHDL, Verilog & SystemC.

• Precision Synthesis – Delivers outstanding quality of results for FPGA synthesis from VHDL & Verilog 2001.

• Precision Physical Synthesis – An integrated RTL & physical FPGA synthesis solution, built on a single data model, simultaneously optimizes gate & interconnect delay.

• Seamless FPGA – Verification of hardware & software in an embedded system, Seamless FPGA provides a single button, automated set up for FPGA verification.

• LeonardoSpectrum™ ASIC – A push-button easy-to-use for solution for synthesizing ASICs, in VHDL or Verilog.

• Design for Test - Mentor Graphics’ Design-for-Test products provide a complete solution for achieving high test quality, low test cost for the whole chip.

• FormalPro™ – A high-capacity equivalence checking solution for gate-level regression testing of designs from small to multi-million gate designs.

• Seamless– Verification of hardware & software in an embedded system.

PCB DESIGN & ANALYSIS PADS – HEP 3b:

PADS is a complete PCB design solution combining schematic definition with powerful layout & simula­tion tools. It provides an integrated design environment combines ease of use with functional depth.

With PADS PCB design solutions, you will:

• Achieve a high ROI on PCB designs ranging from basic to complex.
  

• Improve productivity with shorter design cycles.

• Maintain design integrity with the latest analysis & simulation tools.