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 Graphic’s IP portfolio ranges from simple SoC building blocks, such as communication interfaces and microcontrollers, to complete integrated solutions for Ethernet, USB 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

Video Presentation:
Subsystem IP

Mentor is proud to offer the industry's first ever, fully integrated, single-vendor USB Subsystem IP. View Video

Analog IP Migration Using Design Knowledge Extraction 

White Paper: Demonstrated in this paper is a technique for automatic circuit resizing between different technologies. It relies on design knowledge extraction, which renders it very fast compared to full optimization... View White Paper

Embedded Considerations for USB On-The-Go

White Paper: The On-the-Go (OTG) Supplement to the USB 2.0 Specification, published in December 2001, opens up a vast range of exciting new functionalities for USB-enabled devices. Traditionally, USB has maintained... View White Paper

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’ Graphic'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.

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.

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.

Memory-IP

Designs requiring embedded Memory IP with the concurrent delivery of the highest possible density at the lowest possible dynamic power, leakage and cost while achieving target speed are ideal for the Mentor Graphics coolSRAM, coolROM™, coolCAM™, and Register file (coolREG) hard IP delivered through the MemQuest™ memory compiler.

White Papers

The Integrated IP Subsystem: A Converging SoC Solution

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 White Paper

Case Study

TransSwitch

TransSwitch success story: TranSwitch develops highly integrated communication semiconductors for Ethernet switching, controllers, SONET/SDH transport & switching, and broadband access. View

Brochure

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