Mentor Graphics
| Mentor Graphics
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| legal form | Corporation ( AG ) |
| founding | 1981 |
| resolution | March 31, 2017 |
| Reason for dissolution | Acquisition by Siemens |
| Seat |
Wilsonville , Oregon ,
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| Number of employees | 5,700 |
| sales | 1,181,000,000 US dollars |
| Branch | software |
| Website | www.mentor.com |
| As of January 31, 2016 | |
Mentor Graphics was a manufacturer of software products in the areas of electronic design automation (EDA) and embedded software based in Wilsonville in the US state of Oregon . In the EDA sector, the company was one of the largest software manufacturers in the world and employed over 5,000 people.
The biggest competitors are Cadence and Synopsys .
history
In the years after 1980, the computer-aided development of electronic circuits and assemblies within the framework of computer-aided engineering (CAE) and computer-aided design (CAD) became more and more present and market-defining. Mentor Graphics was founded in 1981 by former Tektronix development engineers with the aim of offering a variety of software products in this area.
Workstations from the manufacturer Apollo Computer , founded just a year earlier, were used as the first hardware platform for Mentor's EDA software . In 1982 the first EDA software product was introduced, the IDEA 1000 program .
In March 2009 the company announced a merger with Valor Computerized Systems .
In 2016, the Elliott Management Corporation hedge fund bought 8.1% of the shares in Mentor with the aim of massively increasing its value; As a result, Mentor worked out strategic alternatives with the involvement of Bank of America , also with the aim of selling. On November 14, 2016, Siemens announced the acquisition of Mentor Graphics for $ 4.5 billion. The takeover of Mentor in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software division of the "Digital Factory Division" was completed in March 2017, quote: "Customers will continue to be supplied with the same products and solutions."
Products
In the EDA area :
- Schematic editors such as Design Architect IC or DxDesigner .
- Physical verification grouping LVS, DRC and DFM with Caliber .
- In the area of PCB unbundling programs such as PADS , Expedition and Board Station for the development of printed circuit boards .
- IP cores for ASICs and FPGAs .
- Simulation programs such as ModelSim for VHDL or Verilog .
In the area of embedded software :
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Executive Team
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2016. (PDF) Mentor Graphics, March 18, 2016, accessed on October 19, 2016 (English).
- ^ Liana B. Baker, Greg Roumeliotis: Mentor Graphics working with Bank of America to explore sale-sources. Reuters , October 16, 2016, accessed October 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Siemens to expand its digital industrial leadership with acquisition of Mentor Graphics. Retrieved November 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Open Letter to Customers. Retrieved March 31, 2017 (English).