Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced it has acquired the assets of Ponte Solutions, Inc., the Mountain View, CA developer of model-based design for manufacturing (DFM) solutions that analyze, predict, and reduce the impact of process variability during the manufacture and design of semiconductors.

Mentor Graphics Corporation, today announced three new next-generation hardware-assisted verification platforms. The Veloce Solo, Trio and Quattro products are based on a new Emulation-on-Chip architecture enabling megahertz-class verification run-time speeds without compromising debug productivity and modeling accuracy for designs up to 128 million ASIC gates

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the Nucleus USB software has received high-speed, on-the-go (OTG) certification by the USB Implementers Forum, Inc. Obtaining the most stringent of certifications, the Nucleus USB solution is now USB-IF compliant at high-speed, full-speed, OTG, or function derivations, allowing developers to easily facilitate certification of their own Nucleus USB-based applications.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that its suite of advanced synthesis products supports the newly introduced Spartan-DSP series from Xilinx, Inc. Synthesis support is available now in Precision Synthesis (release 2006a2) with support in the LeonardoSpectrum tool suite to follow.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced a new application programming interface (API) for its Inflexion Platform UI (user interface) for the Nucleus OS.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced a new application programming interface (API) for its Inflexion Platform UI (user interface) for the Nucleus OS (operating system).

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced product support for the ARM Cortex-M1 processor - the first ARM processor designed specifically for implementation on field programmable gate arrays.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that iVivity, a leader in I/O and application processors for networking and storage applications, has selected Mentor Graphics' 10/100/1000 Mbps and 10G Ethernet Intellectual Property cores for the iVivity iDiSX architecture.

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that its suite of advanced synthesis products supports the newly introduced Cyclone III field programmable gate arrays from Altera Corporation