Mentor Graphics Wikipedia. Mentor Graphics, Inc was a US based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation EDA for electrical engineering and electronics, and is now a subsidiary of Germany industrial giant Siemens. Bachelor of Science in Education, Certification in English and Speech Communications, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas Master of Arts in Speech. Founded in 1. 98. Wilsonville, Oregon, and employs roughly 5,2. HistoryeditIn 1. Mentor, Valid Logic Systems, and Daisy Systems. One of the main distinctions between these groups was that the founding engineers of Mentor, whose backgrounds were in software development at Tektronix, ruled out designing and manufacturing proprietary computers to run their software applications. They felt that hardware was going to become a commodity owned by big computer companies, so instead they would select an existing computer system as the hardware platform for the Computer Aided Engineering CAE programs they would build. By February 1. 98. March, the three executive founders, Tom Bruggere, Gerry Langeler and Dave Moffenbeier had left Tektronix, and by May the business plan was complete. Find NPR member stations and donate. NPR thanks our sponsors. Become an NPR sponsor. Homepage News. National World Politics Business Technology. Bob Brick is seeking the Place 1 seat on the College Station City Council. The seat is currently held by his wife, termlimited Councilwoman Blanche Brick. Brick, 78. The first round of money, 1 million, came from Sutter Hill, Greylock, and Venrock Associates. The next round was 2 million from five venture capital firms, and in April 1. Mentor Graphics was one of the first companies to attract venture capital to Oregon. Apollo Computer workstations were chosen as the initial hardware platform. Based in Chelmsford, Apollo was less than a year old and had only announced itself to the public a few weeks prior to when the founders of Mentor Graphics began their initial meetings. When Mentor entered the CAE market the company had two technical differentiators the first was the software Mentor, Valid, and Daisy each had software with different strengths and weaknesses. The second, was the hardware Mentor ran all programs on the Apollo workstation, while Daisy and Valid each built their own hardware. By the late 1. 98. EDA companies abandoned proprietary hardware in favor of workstations manufactured by companies such as Apollo and Sun Microsystems. After a frenzied development, the IDEA 1. Design Automation Conference, though in a suite and not on the floor. In June 2. Cadence Design Systems offered to acquire Mentor Graphics in a leveraged buyout. On 1. 5 August 2. Cadence withdrew this offer quoting an inability to raise the necessary capital and the unwillingness of Mentor Graphics Board and management to discuss the offer. Mentor acquired Flomerics Group plc for 6. October 2. 00. 8, and in August 2. Mentor completed the acquisition of silicon manufacturing testing company Logic. Vision for 1. 3 million in an all stock deal. Mentor completed the acquisition of Valor Computerized Systems in March 2. On 2. 2 February 2. Carl Icahn, an activist investor, made an offer to buy the company for about 1. As of 2. 01. 2, Mentors major competitors are Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Altium, and Zuken. On March 3, 2. 01. Mentor Graphics announced it had acquired the business assets of Tanner EDA. On 1. 4 November 2. Mentor Graphics announced that it was to be acquired by Siemens for 4. Mentors closing price on the previous Friday. The acquisition was completed in March 2. LocationseditMentor Graphics product development takes place in the USA, Poland, Hungary, Japan, Pakistan, India, Egypt and Armenia. James Jim Ready, left Mentor in 1. Deer Hunting 2014 Hack Facebook there. Linux company Monta. Vista. Neil Henderson joined Mentor Graphics in 2. Accelerated Technology Inc. Stephen Mellor, a leader in the UML space and co originator of the Shlaer Mellor design methodology, joined Mentor Graphics in 2. Project Technology. ManagementeditWalden C. Rhines is the companys chairman1. Ingenieria Social El Arte Del Hacking Personal Information here. Gregory K. Hinckley serves as the president1. Productsedit. Entrance to former company headquarters. Mentor Graphics distributes the following tools Electronic design automation for. Embedded systems Development. Mentor Embedded Linux1. ARM, MIPS, Power, and x. Real time operating systems. Nucleus OS acquired in 2. Salt N Pepa Hot Cool And Vicious. Mentor acquired Accelerated Technology, Inc. VRTX acquired in 1. Mentor bought Microtec ResearchAUTOSAR implementation. Embedded implementation VSTAR in part acquired from Mecel in 2. Configuration tooling Volcano Vehicle Systems Builder VSBDevelopment Tools. Sourcery Code. Bench and Sourcery GNU toolchains acquired in 2. Mentor acquired Code. SourceryInflexion UI Next Device was acquired by Mentor in 2. UML Design Tools Bridge. Point acquired in 2. Mentor acquired Project TechnologyVPN Solutions. Nucleus Point to Point Tunneling Protocol PPTP software. Nucleus NET networking stack. Nucleus implementation of the Microsoft Point to Point Encryption MPPE protocol. Nucleus PPP software. FPGA synthesis tools. Electrical Systems, Cabling and Harness design. Capital a suite of integrated tools for the design, validation and manufacture of electrical systems and harnesses. Ve. Sys a mid market toolset for vehicle electrical system and harness design. Simulation tools for analog mixed signal design. Model. Sim is a hardware simulation and debug environment primarily targeted at smaller ASIC and FPGA design. Questa. Sim is a Simulator with additional Debug capabilities targeted at complex FPGAs and So. Cs. Questa. Sim can be used by users who have experience with Model. Sim as it shares most of the common debug features and capabilities. One of the main differences between Questa. Sim and Modelsim besides performancecapacity is that Questa. Sim is the simulation engine for the Questa Platform which includes integration of Verification Management, Formal based technologies, Questa Verification IP, Low Power Simulation and Accelerated Coverage Closure technologies. Questa. Sim natively supports System. Verilog for Testbench, UPF, UCIS, OVMUVM where Model. Sim does not. Eldo is a SPICE simulator. System. Vision is a virtual lab for mechatronic system design and analysis. ADi. T is a Fast SPICE simulator. Questa ADMS is a mixed signal verification tool. Mechanical Analysis Division formed from the acquisition of Flomerics in 2. Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer tools. Flo. THERM is a Computational Fluid Dynamics tool dedicated to electronics cooling using parameterized Smart. Parts for common electronic components such as fans, heatsinks, and IC packages. Flo. THERM XT is a electronics cooling CFD tool incorporating a solid modeler for manipulating MCAD parts. Flo. EFD is a design concurrent CFD tool for use in early stage product design and is embedded within MCAD systems such as Solidworks, Creo ElementsPro, CATIA V5 and Siemens NXThermal Characterization and Thermal Interface Material TIM Measurement equipment. T3. Ster is a hardware product that embodies an implementation of the JEDEC JESD5. IC package thermal characterization and is compliant with JESD5. Rth JC measurement. Tera. LED provides automation of the CIE 1. CCT for power LEDs. With T3. Ster it provides thermal resistance metrics for LEDs based on the real dissipated heating power. Dyn. TIM extends T3. Ster, providing a dynamic thermal test station for thermal conductivity measurements of thermal interface materials TIMs, thermal greases and gap pads. Flo. MASTER is a 1. D or system level CFD solution for analyzing fluid mechanics in complex pipe flow systems from the acquisition of Flowmaster Ltd in 2. CADRA Design Drafting is a 2 12. D mechanical drafting and documentation package specifically designed for drafting professionals.