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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
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Team on 03 May 2002
Deal provides improved verification
Mentor Graphics has signed a deal with TransEDA that provides Mentor Consulting with access to TransEDA's coverage analysis and HDL checking tools.
Mentor Graphics has signed a deal with TransEDA that provides Mentor Consulting with access to TransEDA's coverage analysis and HDL checking tools Part of Mentor's expanded focus on consulting for functional verification, this agreement allows its consultants to build on their expertise and develop and test new flows and methodologies that are deployed for Mentor's customers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Verification is becoming the largest concern facing our customers and success requires both good tools and effective methodologies", said Phil Bishop, vice president and general manager of Mentor's Consulting division.
"In order to help our customers establish the best possible methodologies, we must continually build on our knowledge of best-in-class tools that have a synergistic relationship with Mentor's offerings".
"Mentor's consulting organisation is well-respected in the industry for the knowledge and expertise of its consultants", said Tom Borgstrom, vice president of marketing, TransEDA.
"Mentor's consultants now have access to our best-in-class tools so they can help our common customers design and implement leading-edge verification methodologies".
Mentor Consulting sought access to TransEDA's VN-Check configurable HDL checking and VN-Cover coverage analysis tools because checking and coverage help engineers find bugs faster and TransEDA's solutions are ready to use with a wide variety of design and verification environments, including Mentor's industry-leading verification tools.
VN-Check provides hundreds of design checks in predefined or user-created rules sets that uncover Verilog and VHDL design and coding problems before simulation.
The leading coverage analysis tool in the industry, VN-Cover supports Verilog, VHDL and dual-language simulation to provide objective feedback on the state of verification with a variety of code and finite state machine (FSM) coverage metrics.
VN-Cover is compatible with all of the leading simulators, including Model Technology's ModelSim tool from Mentor Graphics.
In addition to verification, Mentor Consulting also partners with TransEDA in the area of IP qualification.
Mentor Consulting will integrate tools such as VN-Cover into its IP qualification services.
These services offer customers a comprehensive solution for measuring IP quality based on industry standards and best practices.
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