Success Stories
Verification Success
Next Generation in Verification
Hear from Tom Fitzpatrick, a Verification Technologist with Mentor Graphics.
“ModelSim makes the task of integrating C code in the RTL simulation a very straightforward, three step process. Many helpful features make it easy to learn.”
Arthur Freitas, Development Engineer, Hyperstone AG. Read more
Advanced Micro Devices
Success Story: The Dresden Design Center of AMD Saxony develops semiconductor products for wireless and wired Ethernet connectivity as well as chipsets for AMD’s processors. “Our chips are highly complex,... View Success Story
AMCC
Success Story: Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) adopts Questa CDC for their complex clock domain crossing verification. View Success Story
Evatronix IP
Success Story: Mentor Graphics® Questa® Formal Verification improves the quality of Evatronix IP through exhaustive coverage, proven industry protocols and checkers, as well as support of assertion-based verification.... View Success Story
Icron
Success Story: When you’re expanding into a new country, you need to become fluent in the language. Mentor Graphics and PDTi helped Icron pick up SystemVerilog and apply it to the verification of its first ASIC... View Success Story
Infineon
Success Story: The No. 1 chip supplier to the automotive industry, Infineon worked with Mentor Graphics to pilot a new verification methodology. The result: a better, more structured approach to hardware/software co-verification. View Success Story
Mitsubishi
Success Story: Veloce hardware-assisted verification technology fits in perfectly with the electronics giant’s efficient verification methodology. View Success Story
Olivetti
Success Story: Olivetti standardized on Mentor Graphics® HDL Designer Series™ to manage the entire design process. HDL Designer Series provides a unique solution for integrating various design tools together... View Success Story
Sun Microsystems: Multi-Clock Design
Success Story: The innovative multi-clock architecture of the Sun® UltraSPARC™ T1 processor required a unique clock-domain crossing verification solution that only Questa® could deliver. The close cooperation... View Success Story
Xsigo Systems
Success Story: Questa and the OVM facilitate Xsigo’s move to a constrained-random verification methodology, efficiently delivering higher verification productivity and design quality and helping them to attain their... View Success Story
IMEC
Success Story: When IMEC needed to rapidly verify its multi-mode multimedia (M4) terminal of the future, it utilized the Mentor Graphics® TBX™ and ARM IP Xpress Target Platform™ (IPxTP) solutions with... View Success Story
Hyperstone: SystemVerilog DPI
Success Story: The Questa SystemVerilog DPI enabled development of an enhanced Hyperstone mixed-language testbench, including the integration of an ISS C model and a software debug environment. By providing a bridge between... View Success Story
Dot Hill Systems
Success Story: Today’s highly complex, high throughput designs require the advanced verification functionality that only SystemVerilog’s objectoriented capabilities can provide—including constrained-random... View Success Story
Hyperstone: ModelSim with SystemVerilog DPI
Success Story: Hyperstone accelerates its RTL-simulation by raising the level of abstraction from netlists to C models. This was made possible through the SystemVerilog DPI in ModelSim®. ModelSim’s interactive... View Success Story
Hynix
Success Story: Questa’s support of SystemVerilog delivers testbench automation, assertion-based verification, and the Advanced Verification Methodology to Hynix. By improving productivity, this winning combination... View Success Story
Institute of Microelectronics
Success Story: When designing the aggressive, real-time section of a unique system for visualizing the future and creating new realities in the present, the IME team found that the complexity of their FPGA algorithms... View Success Story
National Semiconductor
Success Story: Gordon Mortensen leads a development team at National Semiconductor responsible for companion chip sets to accompany their X86 Geode™ Integrated Processor products. These companion I/O chips integrate... View Success Story
ON Semiconductor
Success Story: Mentor’s Questa® mix-language simulator and Open Verification Methodology (OVM) library accelerated ON Semiconductor’s adoption and successful application of automated constraint-driven... View Success Story
SEAKR
Success Story: The aerospace data storage company quickly set up advanced testbenches with Questa that found more bugs and in record time. View Success Story
Sun Microsystems: Three-Million Gate Design
Success Story: Sun Microsystems, a world leader in enterprise computing solutions, manufactures workstations and high-end servers that maintain some of the highest sustained bandwidths and some of the lowest latencies... View Success Story
Tensilica
Success Story: Tensilica provides application-specific microprocessor solutions for single chip systems. The Xtensa™ processor is a configurable and extensible 32-bit microprocessor architecture and support environment... View Success Story
Northrop Grumman Italia
Success Story: Aerospace manufacturer quickly achieves DO-254 compliance while improving verification quality and efficiency. View Success Story
STMicroelectronics
Success Story: As long as the electronics industry is built on harnessing the laws of physics, the importance of analog signals will never go away. Nature speaks in waveforms, not regimented bitstreams. So the challenge,... View Success Story