FPGA

Integrated FPGA Design Flow

Welcome to Mentor Graphics ASIC and FPGA HDL Design Creation and Synthesis solutions. With two decades of HDL-based development tool experience, Mentor Graphics delivers a range of product solutions from concept to implementation for requirements through project management and development.

DO-254 Overview: Compliance Challenges and Solutions

Multimedia: Watch this presentation to learn about DO-254 principles and how to establish a requirements-based, high-quality design flow that supports the principles of DO-254 compliance. View Now

FPGA Synthesis for High Assurance Design (Including DO-254).

White Paper: Updated for 2011, this paper provides background information and also goes into detail on FPGA synthesis challenges and solutions in high assurance design, including DO-254 environments. View White Paper

Improving FPGA Prototyping with SystemVerilog

White Paper: As ASIC designs have grown larger at a much faster pace than FPGA devices, often multiple FPGA devices must be used to prototype a single ASIC. The obstacle of using multiple devices is the task of connecting... View White Paper

FPGA Methodologies

Requirements Tracking

Track hardware implementation for requirement validation for safety critical projects in medical, transportation, aerospace and military, or any complex ASIC or FPGA design.

Design Creation

Mentor Graphics provides best in class tool supporting techniques and methodologies to accelerate the creation of thousands of lines of code to improve design productivity.

Design Reuse

Adopting new standards, tools, and methodologies will enable you to improve your design creation and reuse of legacy code, informal and formal IP.

Advanced FPGA Synthesis

Designers need a multi-vendor synthesis tool to keep pace with advances in technology. Precision RTL Plus is the industry's most comprehensive FPGA solution.

ASIC Prototyping

Ease the transition from ASIC to FPGA design by allowing the same HDL code and constraint syntax to be used.

IP-XACT

An XML Databook standard from the Spirit Consortium for a formalized approach to model IP.

SystemVerilog Design & Synthesis

Mentor Graphics enables designers to leverage the power of SystemVerilog for productive design creation, effective testbench development, and efficient synthesis.

Simulation

Delivering the highest simulation productivity possible with multi-language support and high-performance simulation engine.

White Papers

Using Assertions to Satisfy Elemental Analysis

This paper discusses DO-254 and what it requires for verification (including advanced methods for DAL A/B designs), explains the original intent of Elemental Analysis, the way it is typically satisfied... View White Paper

Using FPGA Synthesis to Protect Against Radiation Effects and Soft Errors

Mentor Graphics Precision® Hi-Rel automatically incorporates advanced mitigation circuitry during device-neutral RTL synthesis, thereby providing additional protection through the implementation flow... View White Paper

Understanding electronic IP: common issues and how to find them

Using IP blocks in designs requiring DO-254 compliance is becoming more popular as a way to reduce costs and schedules. However, the use of IP comes with its own problems and pitfalls. A good methodology... View White Paper

Product Demos

ModelSim Simulation of Waveforms and Debug Demo for Beginners

This training provides an overview of Mentor Graphic's ModelSim® software. You will learn the basics about simulation and how to simulate with projects. You will learn how to work with multiple libraries... View Product Demo

Requirements Tracing Through FPGA Synthesis

A major challenge in safety-critical design flows is requirements tracking, particularly when meeting compliance with safety standards such as DO-254. Mentor’s ReqTracer simplifies, automates and... View Product Demo

Solutions

DO-254 Solutions

Ensure the safety of in-flight hardware and meet FAA standards. Mentor delivers a best-practice methodology for requirements-based design to help you meet your DO-254 quality objectives while improving productivity. Learn more about Mentor Graphic's DO-254 solutions

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