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History 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 start-up team had been identified; 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 Computers were chosen as the hardware. Based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Apollo was less than a year old and had only announced itself to the public a few weeks before 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 for schematic capture, but ran simulation and other programs on larger computers such as the MicroVax.

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.

Products The company distributes the following tools.

Electronic design automation for

Integrated circuits
FPGA
Embedded systems
Schematic editors for circuit diagrams such as Design Architect IC or DxDesigner
Layout tools for printed circuit boards with programs such as PADS, Expedition and Board Station
Component library management tools
Semiconductor intellectual property cores for ASIC and FPGA designs

Embedded systems Development

Real-Time Operating Systems

Nucleus RTOS (acquired in 2002 when Mentor acquired Accelerated Technology, Inc.)
Virtual Real-Time Executive (acquired in 1995 when Mentor bought Microtec Research.)

Development Tools:

EDGE Developer Suite - Embedded development tools IDE (compilers, debugger, profiler, project manager)
EDGE SimTest - Virtual Prototyping, simulation and testing for embedded solutions
Next Device Engine (NDE) - Next Device was acquired by Mentor in 2006.
xtUnified Modeling Language Design Tools: BridgePoint (acquired in a 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

Cabling and Harness design
Simulation tools for analog mixed-signal design

QuestaSim is an Advanced Verification platform supporting testbench automation, assertions and functional coverage
ModelSim is a popular hardware simulation and debug environment
Eldo is a high performance SPICE simulator
ADiT is a fast SPICE simulator
ADVance MS is a mixed-signal verification tool

Falcon Framework a software application framework for Apollo/Domain and Unix

AMPLE a scripting language for the Falcon Framework

Mentor has software development sites located around the world but the majority of their developers are located in the United States.

James 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 with the acquisition of Project Technology.

As of 2007, Mentor's major competitors are Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys and Magma Design Automation.

Management as of August 2007 Walden C. Rhines, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Officer Since: 10/1993, Age: 60 Gregory K. Hinckley, President, Director, Officer Since: 01/1997, Age: 61 Maria M. Pope, Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Officer Since: 05/02/2007, Age: 42 L. Don Maulsby, Senior Vice President - World Trade, Officer Since: 10/18/1999, Age: 55 Dean Freed, Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary, Officer Since: 04/1994, Age: 48 Anthony B. Adrian, Vice President, Corporate Controller, Officer Since: 01/1998, Age: 64 Brian Derrick, Vice President - Corporate Marketing, Officer Since: 11/2000, Age: 43 Jue-Hsien Chern, Vice President, General Manager - Deep Submicron Division, Officer Since: 01/2000, Age: 52 Robert Hum, Vice President, General Manager - Design Verification and Test Division, Officer Since: 06/2002, Age: 54 Walter H. Potts, Vice President, General Manager - Systems Design Division (SDD), Officer Since: 04/26/1999, Age: 60

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