Mentor Graphics (Canada) Ltd.

Mentor Graphics (Canada) Ltd.

Mentor Graphics Corporate Overview
At A Glance
Mentor Graphics provides electronic hardware and software design
solutions and consulting services to the world's largest
telecommunications, automotive, consumer electronics, computer,
semiconductor and aerospace companies giving them the power to
create high-performance, high-quality products in less time. A
pioneer of the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry,
Mentor Graphics helps companies designing and competing globally
to optimize their designs as they grow the most successful
electronics businesses of tomorrow. Mentor Graphics tears down
the barriers of technological complexity and time-to-market
demands, and encourages innovation.

Publicly held (NASDAQ: MENT)
Founded 1981, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon
2,600 employees
Revenue over last reported 12 months: $490 million
World-class research and development
High-touch, global distribution channel -- Sites in 30 locations
worldwide
Strategic partnerships with leading electronics manufacturers,
semiconductor and electronic design suppliers for development of
new solutions and methodologies

A Leader Well-Positioned for the Next Millennium
The company is well-positioned to help customers capitalize on
new markets resulting from the confluence of computer,
communications and consumer applications, which is fueling
breakneck growth in worldwide electronics markets. These new
markets are growing up around an information explosion
characterized by shrinking chip technologies, the Internet, and
powerful new multimedia products. These technologies will
profoundly change the way engineers design the next generation
of automobiles, cellular phones, consumer products and computers.

In an effort to help customers driven by relentless
time-to-market factors and greater design complexity, Mentor
Graphics is redefining its role to be not only a software and
services supplier, but also an information technology partner.
In that role, Mentor Graphics will provide software to help
customers create design content, as well as the actual design
content itself -- an emerging area called 'commercial reusable
intellectual property.'

This new design environment is characterized by an unprecedented
need for reusable intellectual property, integrated hardware and
software design, and robust system verification solutions which
can assure chips and products that work the first time they
enter manufacturing. Mentor Graphics offers design tools, flows,
consulting and customer support services in the following areas:

System Design
Mentor Graphics' solutions accelerate the processes of creating,
debugging and verifying VHDL- and Verilog- based designs from a
technology-independent system level down to a technology-specific
implementation. It also allows performance of true architectural
exploration at the system level of a design. This enables
designers to interactively explore alternative architectures and
optimize designs.
Solutions span ASIC and IC design; design-for-test; analog and
mixed-signal; programmable logic design; and board and MCM
design.

Intellectual Property Creation and Distribution
The InventraTM group enables design reuse at an unprecedented
level by offering the largest catalog of open, predefined,
preverified cores and libraries in the industry. Mentor
Graphics' intellectual property is designed to work with all
leading EDA tools, allowing designers to focus on optimizing
system architecture and developing proprietary functionality
without needing to maintain standard building blocks.

Rapid and Accurate System Verification
Mentor Graphics offers a suite of accelerated verification
products, ranging from cycle-based optimization to
hardware/software co-verification and emulation.

Embedded Software Development
The Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division provides the only
comprehensive selection of integrated embedded software
solutions developed by a single vendor to significantly improve
engineering productivity during software development, debugging
and deployment. More than 50,000 embedded developers worldwide
use the Embedded Software Division's proven, integrated and open
embedded software development tools, real-time operating systems
solutions and services.

Knowledge-SourcingSM Consulting
Mentor Consulting's unparalleled approach to EDA consulting
focuses on solving immediate design challenges while
simultaneously empowering organizations to solve similar
challenges in the future. In contrast to traditional out
sourcing, Knowledge-Sourcing infuses knowledge into
organizations, extending its core competencies and strengthening
them. Mentor Consulting has assembled the most experienced group
of EDA knowledge consultants worldwide and has focused them in
design services, technology adoption and process and methodology
best practices.

Platform Solutions
These offer rapid support for industry leading workstations and
servers and cross-platform interoperability, providing designers
the flexibility to choose platform partners. Mentor Graphics has
developed several products to run on workstation and PC
platforms and will continue to develop products that support
mixed environments.

Media Contacts:
Mentor Graphics: Ry Schwark 503/ 685-1660 or
ry_schwark@mentor.com
Benjamin Group: Trisha Ristagno 408/ 559-6090 or
trisha_ristagno@benjamingroup.com

Company Details

Year Established: 1981

Number of Employees: 2100

Company Information

Bill Boudreau
Title: Sales Manager
Telephone: (613) 759-4000
Fax: (613) 728-0431

Robert Portelance
Title: Manager
Area of Responsibility: Domestic Sales & Marketing
Telephone: (613) 759-4000
Fax: (613) 728-0431
Email: Click Here

Products

Electronic Design Tools

Corporate Profile
Mentor Graphics provides electronic hardware and software design solutions and consulting services to the world's largest telecommunications, automotive, consumer electronics, computer, semiconductor and aerospace companies giving them The Power To CreateSM high-performance,high-quality products in less time. A pioneer of the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry, Mentor Graphics helps companies designing and competing globally to optimize their designs as they grow the most successful electronics businesses of tomorrow. Mentor Graphics tears down the barriers of technological complexity and time-to-market demands, and encourages innovation.

Services