Intellectual Property
Silicon-proven and Ready-to-use
Mentor Graphics® offers a variety of standards-based IP cores that are rigorously tested and validated to provide design teams with the most reliable cores in the industry.
Mentor’s IP portfolio ranges from simple SoC building blocks, such as communication interfaces and microcontrollers, to complete integrated solutions for Ethernet, USB, PCI Express and Storage applications.
- Required component of design reuse methodology
- Highly configurable silicon IP Blocks for industry standard interfaces
- Encapsulate stringent industry compliance and interoperability standards
- Soft Digital IP provides configurable RTL (VHDL and Verilog) source code
- Hard IP provides process specific GDSII layout data
- IP Blocks include critical design and verification files to drive common tool flows
IP Categories
USB
USB is a commonly deployed digital wired interface on PCs, printers, digital cameras, PDAs, and other digital consumer electronic products.
USB Subsystem
The goal of Mentor’s IP Division is to offer a complete IP subsystem available in the standards-based connectivity space.
Ethernet
With the Networking industry’s ever-increasing demand for faster speeds, we are committed to providing the most flexible and problem-free IP cores for Ethernet connectivity.
PCI Express
PCI Express (PCIe) is the newest generation interconnect that reflects an industry trend to replace legacy shared parallel buses with high-speed point-to-point serial buses.
Storage
We are the only Storage IP vendor to offer non-standard clocking support for our customer’s Parallel ATA designs, which provide greater flexibility when integrating PATA Host controller.
Peripheral
Peripheral IP is often required to complete ASIC or SoC designs. It ranges in type and complexity from microcontrollers to communication interfaces such as I2C.
Mixed Signal
All of our Mixed Signal IP cores include Mentor Graphics 5-STAR global customer support for quicker response times, and ultimately a faster time to market for your end products.
Techpubs and Successes
Intellectual Property Techpubs
PCIe - Sizing Replay Buffer Appropriately and Achieving High Throughput in the Process
techpub: PCI Express is the latest generation I/O technology for high performance chip-to-chip interconnect applications. The overall performance of the PCI Express system depends on how quickly the data flows... View Techpub
PCIe - A Technology-Laden Communications Interface for the Future
techpub: The increasing I/O bandwidth requirement and decreasing real-estate requirements of the end product necessitate the adoption of faster I/O interconnect technology. The latest PCI Express technology is the... View Techpub
The Integrated IP Subsystem: A Converging SoC Solution
techpub: The consumer device market is witnessing incredible market space convergence between mobile handheld, automotive, and home electronics. IP vendors, engineers, and system design engineers face a multitude... View Techpub
Success Stories
Wintegra
Wintegra develops a highly integrated, access packet network processors for its WinPath product line utilizing the Mentor Graphics 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet MAC IP. With the implementation of Mentor's IP... View
Nethra
As Nethra’s first product entry, the NI-20x0 family of SoC solutions brings the image quality of film to the mobile handset. The programmable image processor family allows OEMs to bring performance,... View
IP Brochure
Today’s marketplace requires the rapid development of differentiated products. Silicon-proven, ready-to-use IP from Mentor Graphics allows project teams to concentrate on the unique functionality of a design and helps teams get the finished product to market sooner. Get the Intellectual Property (IP) Product Family Brochure