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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: Eldo and Advance MST
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 September 2005
Analogue/mixed-signal tools run on 64bit
Linux
Mentor Graphics has announced its support for 64bit Linux platforms by declaring full operational qualification for its analogue/mixed-signal toolset.
Mentor Graphics has announced its support for 64bit Linux platforms by declaring full operational qualification for its analogue/mixed-signal toolset Mentor's entire line of Eldo and Advance MST analogue and mixed-signal products have been certified for operation on Opteron and EM64 processor architectures using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 platform
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Mentor Graphics and UMC deliver IC design kits
Mentor Graphics and UMC have joined to deliver a complete turnkey design flow, including the availability of IC design kits, for UMC's RF and analogue/mixed-signal process technologies.
"Linux on X86-64 hardware is proving to be a great performance platform for our products", said Jue-Hsien Chern, Vice President and General Manager of Mentor's Deep Submicron Division.
Mentor's AMS (analogue/mixed-signal) products and CICD (custom IC design) tools join Mentor's DFT tools (design for test), ModelSim and the Calibre design-to-silicon platform to offer customers a wide choice in 64bit computing.
The move to 64bit processing will become more crucial as engineers begin to design at 65nm and below and populate each chip with millions of gates.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux for 64bit architectures delivers unbelievable performance at a great value, especially for compute-intensive workloads found in the EDA market", said Tim Yeaton, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Red Hat.
"Red Hat is proud to partner with Mentor on this first-class solution for our mutual customers".
Mentor Graphics products are also available on Novell Linux SLES 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for Xeon-64 and Opteron platforms.
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