Actel and Mentor Graphics expand partnership
Mentor Graphics Corporation and Actel Corporation have announced the signing of a new OEM agreement between the two companies, expanding the companies' existing technology and marketing partnership. With this agreement, Actel will provide the feature set of Precision Synthesis, Actel-edition, as part of the new Libero Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 7.3 Web download product bundle. In addition, Actel and Mentor Graphics will continue to cooperate to improve tool integration.
"Our customers have benefited from our existing ModelSim OEM agreement with Mentor, which makes accessible to them an industry-standard advanced FPGA verification environment," said Rich Brossart, vice president, product marketing at Actel. "Now, with the addition of Precision Synthesis to our Libero IDE, designers have the option of leveraging an industry-standard logic synthesis solution with advanced analysis tools and SystemVerilog support."
As a supplier of single-chip FPGAs, Actel addresses a wide variety of applications, including those requiring low power, security, reliability, live at power up and even radiation hardening.
"We see Actel in many sophisticated applications, requiring engineers to push their designs to the maximum," said Simon Bloch, general manager, Mentor Graphics Design Creation and Synthesis Division. "These customers will need more than a push-button synthesis solution — they need the superior capabilities of Precision Synthesis."
