Mentor delivers complete FPGA design flow

Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced a collaboration with Xilinx, Inc. to provide seamless operation between its FPGA Advantage™ design environment and Xilinx’s recently announced Integrated Software Environment 6.1i (ISE). FPGA Advantage, Mentor’s FPGA design environment incorporates the Mentor Graphics HDL Designer Series™ design management environment, the ModelSim® simulator, the LeonardoSpectrum™ and Precision™ Synthesis tools. Integrated with Xilinx’s new ISE 6.1i tools, FPGA Advantage delivers a complete FPGA flow that redefines the standard for productivity in programmable logic design software. Both Mentor and Xilinx are committed to providing the most complete, intuitive design solution available for FPGA design. Through their continued technology collaboration, the two companies provide designers with a comprehensive field programmable system-on-chip design environment that enhances productivity, shortens design time and reduces overall development costs. The enhanced FPGA design flow includes hardware and software design creation and verification environments with synthesis, design management, timing analysis and place and route capabilities. This design suite, coupled with Xilinx flagship Virtex-II Pro™ Platform FPGAs and 90nm/300mm Spartan-3™ low-cost FPGAs, creates the most cost-effective hardware/software solution available in logic design today. Source: PCBnewsline