WILSONVILLE, Ore., Jan. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor
Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced its Tessent® DefectSim™ product was awarded 2016 Product of the Year by Electronic Products magazine. This award is presented for a
product launched in 2016 that represents innovative design and advancement in technology, as determined by the editors of the
publication.
The Tessent DefectSim product measures the defect coverage of any test applied to an analog or mixed-signal circuit. This tool
enables a designer to improve the quality of analog and mixed-signal circuits during integrated circuit (IC) design by guiding
design-for-test (DFT) and the selection of more effective manufacturing tests. It also enables test engineers to reduce test
costs by showing which tests do not increase coverage and whether simpler or faster tests could achieve higher coverage. The tool
satisfies the growing defect-coverage measurement requirement for automotive ICs set by Tier1 automotive suppliers in accordance
with the ISO 26262 automotive functional safety standard.
The Tessent DefectSim tool works with Mentor's Eldo® and Questa® ADMS™ simulators to measure
the likelihood-weighted percentage of opens, shorts, extreme variations, and user-defined defect or fault models that can be
detected within a layout-extracted or schematic netlist. The Tessent DefectSim product combines many techniques, described in our
peer-reviewed papers, to reduce total simulation time by many orders of magnitude compared to simulation of every potential
defect in a flat layout-extracted netlist, without reducing simulation accuracy or the choice of tests.
"We are gratified to receive this industry recognition for an analysis tool that has taken many years to develop, and is the
only general-purpose, analog fault simulator available commercially," said Stephen Sunter,
engineering director for mixed-signal DFT at Mentor Graphics. "We thank the many customers who evaluated the Tessent DefectSim
tool and provided so much constructive feedback to help ensure that their AMS designers will have the fault simulation capability
that digital designers have had for 30 years and which has facilitated tremendous advances in automation for digital DFT and test
generation."
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most successful electronic, semiconductor and systems companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last fiscal year of approximately $1.18
billion. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville,
Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor, Eldo, Questa, and Tessent are registered trademarks, DefectSim and ADMS are trademarks of Mentor
Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.)
For more information, please contact:
Anne Cirkel
Mentor Graphics
503.685.7934
anne_cirkel@mentor.com
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