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122.76278 products nucleus os edge developer suite modelsim questasim calibre revenue 1.09 billion usd 2013 1 net income 138.7 million usd 2013 1 total assets us 1.745284 billion 2013 2 us 1.550675 billion 2012 3 number of employees 5 220 2014 4 slogan eda technology leader website mentor.com mentor graphics inc is a us based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation eda for electrical engineering and electronics . in 2001 it was ranked third 5 in the eda industry it helped create . founded in 1981 the company is headquartered in wilsonville oregon and employs roughly 5 200 people worldwide with annual revenues of around 1 billion . contents 1 history 2 management 3 products 4 see also 5 references history edit in 1981 the idea of computer aided design for electronics as the foundation of a company occurred to several groups those who founded 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 1981 most of the start up team had been identified ; by march the three executive founders tom bruggere gerry langeler and dave moffenbeier had left tektronix and by may the business plan was complete . 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 1983 a third round raised 7 million more . 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 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 . 6 by the time founder bruggere ran for the u.s. senate in 1996 the company had grown to annual revenues of 384 million . 7 mentor graphics is a global company with product development taking place in the usa europe japan pakistan india and egypt . in keeping with global trends in software development the company has a substantial labor force in lower cost locations such as pakistan india poland hungary and egypt . james jim ready one of the more colorful people in embedded systems left mentor in 1999 to form the embedded linux company montavista . neil henderson a pioneer in the royalty free source provided market space joined mentor graphics in 2002 with the acquisition of accelerated technology inc. stephen mellor a leader in the uml space and co originator of the shlaer mellor design methodology joined mentor graphics in 2004 following the acquisition of project technology . as of 2012 mentor s major competitors are cadence design systems synopsys and zuken . in june 2008 cadence design systems offered to acquire mentor graphics in a leveraged buyout . on 15 august 2008 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 . 8 mentor acquired flomerics group plc for 60 million in cash in october 2008 and in august 2009 mentor completed the acquisition of silicon manufacturing testing company logicvision for 13 million in an all stock deal . 9 mentor completed the acquisition of valor computerized systems in march 2010 in a cash and stock deal valued at 50 million . 10 on 22 february 2011 carl icahn an activist investor made an offer to buy the company for about 1.86 billion in cash in a move to push other suitors to declare themselves . management edit walden c. rhines is the company s chairman 11 of the board and chief executive officer whereas gregory k. hinckley serves as the president 11 of the corporation . products edit entrance to company headquarters mentor graphics distributes the following tools electronic design automation for integrated circuit layout full custom and sdl tools such as ic station ic place and route tool olympus soc ic verification tools such as calibre nmdrc calibre nmlvs calibre xrc calibre xact 3d ic design for manufacturing tools such as calibre lfd calibre yieldenhancer and calibre yieldanalyzer schematic editors for electronic schematics such as design architect ic or dxdesigner layout and design tools for printed circuit boards with programs such as pads xpedition enterprise and board station component library management tools ip cores for asic and fpga designs embedded systems development mentor embedded linux 12 for arm mips power and x86 architecture processors real time operating systems nucleus os acquired in 2002 when mentor acquired accelerated technology inc. vrtx acquired in 1995 when mentor bought microtec research autosar implementation embedded implementation vstar in part acquired from mecel in 2013 13 configuration tooling volcano vehicle systems builder vsb development tools sourcery codebench and sourcery gnu toolchains acquired in 2010 when mentor acquired codesourcery inflexion ui next device was acquired by mentor in 2006 xtuml design tools bridgepoint acquired in 2004 when mentor acquired project technology vpn 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 precision synthesis advanced rtl & physical synthesis for fpgas electrical systems cabling and harness design capital a suite of integrated tools for the design validation and manufacture of electrical systems and harnesses vesys a mid market toolset for vehicle electrical system and harness design simulation tools for analog mixed signal design modelsim is a hardware simulation and debug environment primarily targeted at smaller asic and fpga design questasim is a simulator with additional debug capabilities targeted at complex fpga s and soc s. questasim can be used by users who have experience with modelsim as it shares most of the common debug features and capabilities . one of the main differences between questasim and modelsim besides performance capacity is that questasim 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 . questasim natively supports systemverilog for testbench upf ucis ovm uvm where modelsim does not . eldo is a spice simulator systemvision is a virtual lab for mechatronic system design and analysis adit is a fast spice simulator questa adms is a mixed signal verification tool mechanical analysis division formed from the acquisition of flomerics in 2008 fluid dynamics and heat transfer tools flotherm is a computational fluid dynamics tool dedicated to electronics cooling using parameterized smartparts for common electronic components such as fans heatsinks and ic packages flotherm xt is a electronics cooling cfd tool incorporating a solid modeler for manipulating mcad parts . floefd is a design concurrent cfd tool for use in early stage product design and is embedded within mcad systems such as solidworks creo elements pro catia v5 and siemens nx thermal characterization and thermal interface material tim measurement equipment t3ster is a hardware product that embodies an implementation of the jedec jesd51 1 standard for ic package thermal characterization and is compliant with jesd51 14 for rth jc measurement teraled provides automation of the cie 127 2007 standard providing total flux chromaticity and correlated color temperature cct for power leds . with t3ster it provides thermal resistance metrics for leds based on the real dissipated heating power . dyntim extends t3ster providing a dynamic thermal test station for thermal conductivity measurements of thermal interface materials tims thermal greases and gap pads . flowmaster is a 1d or system level cfd solution for analyzing fluid mechanics in complex pipe flow systems from the acquisition of flowmaster ltd in 2012 . cadra design drafting is a 2 1 2d mechanical drafting and documentation package specifically designed for drafting professionals . it provides the tools needed to develop complex drawings quickly and easily from the acquisition of the cadra product in 2013 . the veloce product family enables soc emulation and transaction based acceleration . see also edit list of companies based in oregon references edit a b siemers erik march 1 2013 . mentor graphics broke sales record in 12 plans to do it again in 13 . portland business journal . retrieved 3 march 2013 . mentor graphics corp 2013 q3 quarterly report form 10 q xbrl . united states securities and exchange commission . december 4 2013 . mentor graphics corp 2012 annual report form 10 k xbrl . united states securities and exchange commission . march 15 2013 . mentor graphics corp 2014 annual report pdf . retrieved 2014 07 04 . staff edn . top 10 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