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Company type | Private [1] |
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Industry | EDA, Embedded Software |
Founded | 1981 |
Founder | Tom Bruggere |
Fate | Acquired by Siemens and merged into Siemens Digital Industries Software |
Headquarters |
Wilsonville, Oregon, United States 45°19′10″N 122°45′46″W / 45.31944°N 122.76278°W |
Products | Nucleus OS, Sourcery CodeBench, ModelSim/QuestaSim, Calibre, Veloce |
Revenue | $1.28B USD (2017) [2] |
$155 million USD (2017) [2] | |
Total assets | |
Number of employees | 5,968 (2017) [5] |
Mentor Graphics Corporation was a US-based electronic design automation (EDA) multinational corporation for electrical engineering and electronics, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. Founded in 1981, the company distributed products that assist in electronic design automation, simulation tools for analog mixed-signal design, VPN solutions, and fluid dynamics and heat transfer tools. The company leveraged Apollo Computer workstations to differentiate itself within the computer-aided engineering (CAE) market with its software and hardware.
Mentor Graphics was acquired by Siemens in 2017. The name was retired in 2021 and renamed Siemens EDA, a segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software.
Mentor Graphics was founded in 1981 by Tom Bruggere, Gerry Langeler, and Dave Moffenbeier, all formerly of Tektronix. [6] The company raised $55 million in funding through an initial public offering in 1984. [6]
Mentor initially wrote software that ran only in Apollo workstations. [7]
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 1980s, all EDA companies abandoned proprietary hardware in favor of workstations manufactured by companies such as Apollo and Sun Microsystems.
After a frenzied development, the IDEA 1000 product was introduced at the 1982 Design Automation Conference, though in a suite and not on the floor. [8]
Mentor Graphics was purchased by Siemens in 2017. The name was retired in 2021 and renamed Siemens EDA, a segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software. [9]
Year announced | Company | Business | Value (USD) | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995 | Microtec Research | Software development | $130 million | [10] |
1999 | VeriBest | EDA subsidiary of Intergraph Corp. | not disclosed | [11] [12] |
2002 | Accelerated Technology | RTOS & embedded software | not disclosed | [13] |
2002 | Innoveda | Printed circuit board & wire harness design | $160 million | [14] |
2002 | IKOS Systems | Emulation product | $124 million | [15] |
2004 | Project Technology | Executable UML | not disclosed | [16] |
2007 | Sierra Design Automation | Place and route | $90 million | [17] |
2008 | Flomerics | Computational fluid dynamics | $59.72 million | [18] |
2009 | LogicVision | Silicon manufacturing testing | $13 million | [19] |
2010 | Valor Computerized Systems | PCB systems manufacturing | $82 million | [20] |
2010 | CodeSourcery | GNU-based tools | not disclosed | [21] |
2014 | Nimbic | Electromagnetic simulation | not disclosed | [22] |
2014 | Berkeley Design Automation | AMS circuit verification | not disclosed | [23] |
2015 | Tanner EDA | AMS & MEMS integrated circuits | not disclosed | [24] |
2015 | Calypto Design Systems | High level synthesis | not disclosed | [25] |
Mentor product development was located in the US, Taiwan, Egypt, Poland, Hungary, Japan, France, Canada, Pakistan, UK, Armenia, India and Russia.
This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience.(September 2020) |
Mentor offered the following tools:
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Company type | Private [1] |
---|---|
Industry | EDA, Embedded Software |
Founded | 1981 |
Founder | Tom Bruggere |
Fate | Acquired by Siemens and merged into Siemens Digital Industries Software |
Headquarters |
Wilsonville, Oregon, United States 45°19′10″N 122°45′46″W / 45.31944°N 122.76278°W |
Products | Nucleus OS, Sourcery CodeBench, ModelSim/QuestaSim, Calibre, Veloce |
Revenue | $1.28B USD (2017) [2] |
$155 million USD (2017) [2] | |
Total assets | |
Number of employees | 5,968 (2017) [5] |
Mentor Graphics Corporation was a US-based electronic design automation (EDA) multinational corporation for electrical engineering and electronics, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. Founded in 1981, the company distributed products that assist in electronic design automation, simulation tools for analog mixed-signal design, VPN solutions, and fluid dynamics and heat transfer tools. The company leveraged Apollo Computer workstations to differentiate itself within the computer-aided engineering (CAE) market with its software and hardware.
Mentor Graphics was acquired by Siemens in 2017. The name was retired in 2021 and renamed Siemens EDA, a segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software.
Mentor Graphics was founded in 1981 by Tom Bruggere, Gerry Langeler, and Dave Moffenbeier, all formerly of Tektronix. [6] The company raised $55 million in funding through an initial public offering in 1984. [6]
Mentor initially wrote software that ran only in Apollo workstations. [7]
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 1980s, all EDA companies abandoned proprietary hardware in favor of workstations manufactured by companies such as Apollo and Sun Microsystems.
After a frenzied development, the IDEA 1000 product was introduced at the 1982 Design Automation Conference, though in a suite and not on the floor. [8]
Mentor Graphics was purchased by Siemens in 2017. The name was retired in 2021 and renamed Siemens EDA, a segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software. [9]
Year announced | Company | Business | Value (USD) | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
1995 | Microtec Research | Software development | $130 million | [10] |
1999 | VeriBest | EDA subsidiary of Intergraph Corp. | not disclosed | [11] [12] |
2002 | Accelerated Technology | RTOS & embedded software | not disclosed | [13] |
2002 | Innoveda | Printed circuit board & wire harness design | $160 million | [14] |
2002 | IKOS Systems | Emulation product | $124 million | [15] |
2004 | Project Technology | Executable UML | not disclosed | [16] |
2007 | Sierra Design Automation | Place and route | $90 million | [17] |
2008 | Flomerics | Computational fluid dynamics | $59.72 million | [18] |
2009 | LogicVision | Silicon manufacturing testing | $13 million | [19] |
2010 | Valor Computerized Systems | PCB systems manufacturing | $82 million | [20] |
2010 | CodeSourcery | GNU-based tools | not disclosed | [21] |
2014 | Nimbic | Electromagnetic simulation | not disclosed | [22] |
2014 | Berkeley Design Automation | AMS circuit verification | not disclosed | [23] |
2015 | Tanner EDA | AMS & MEMS integrated circuits | not disclosed | [24] |
2015 | Calypto Design Systems | High level synthesis | not disclosed | [25] |
Mentor product development was located in the US, Taiwan, Egypt, Poland, Hungary, Japan, France, Canada, Pakistan, UK, Armenia, India and Russia.
This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience.(September 2020) |
Mentor offered the following tools: