Curriculum Support

Mentor Graphics has partnered with universities and technical authors to provide materials to assist you in incorporating leading edge design methodologies into your curriculum..

Functional Verification

• New – Functional Verification Curriculum Support
  A complete verification class for System Verilog and OVM from North Carolina State University. This material includes lecture material, laboratory exercises and project material.
• Recommended Textbook
  Digital Systems Design Using VHDL, 2nd Edition, by Charles H. Roth and Lizy Kurian John, University of Texas, Austin.  Includes a student version of Mentor Graphics’ ModelSim software.
• Recommend Textbook
  Assertion Based Verification using Questa

IC Design/Verification

• Recommended Textbook
  CMOS IC LAYOUT Guide to Topological Chip Design, by William Bradbury, EduMedia Development, Corp.  Includes a student version of Mentor Graphics’ IC Station software for Linux.
• IC Nanometer Design Tutorials
  IC Design, Analog/Mixed-Signal verification and Physical Verification Tutorials from Santa Clara University.
• Calibre DRC, LVS, and Parasitic Extraction

HDL, Design-for-Test, HW/SW Co-Verification

• Design-for-Test

PCB Systems

• Board Station
• Expedition