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December 2008

• Mentor Graphics Quadruples Veloce Hardware Emulation Capacity to a Half Billion Gates Dec 15, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Olympus-SoC Place-and-Route System Qualifies for TSMC 40nm Processes Dec 11, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces Capital Architect, a New Tool for Dynamically Optimizing the Physical Architecture of Vehicle EDS Systems Dec 9, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Supports Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi in Electronic Design Education Dec 5, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Delivers Solution for SystemVerilog Base Class Library Interoperability to Enable Reuse of Legacy VMM Code in an OVM Environment Dec 4, 2008

November 2008

• Fluid Flow Simulation Helps Overcome Tough Telecom Thermal Design Challenge Nov 21, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Third Quarter Results Nov 19, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces Details of Expanded Integrated Electrical Solutions Forum for the Automotive Industry Nov 17, 2008

• NEC Electronics Selects Mentor Graphics Calibre nmLVS for Advanced Circuit Characterization at 40nm and Below Nov 13, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Collaborates with Lake Washington Technical College to Open PCB Design Laboratory Nov 12, 2008

• Airflow Simulation Helps Retrofit Schools for Air Conditioning with Minimum Energy Usage Nov 12, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Lowers Fiscal 2009 Guidance and Announces Fiscal Third Quarter Conference Call Nov 11, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Boosts Eldo Simulator Performance with Generalized Multi-threading Technology Nov 4, 2008

October 2008

• Mentor Graphics Chairman and CEO to Keynote at GSA Semiconductor Leaders Forum Oct 30, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Broadens Support of OVM Compliant Verification IP for IEEE802.3-2005 Gigabit Ethernet-based Designs Oct 30, 2008

• 멘토 그래픽스, 다양한 멀티미디어 기기의 쉽고 빠른 개발을 가능하게 하는 새로운 Nucleus Platform Media Play 발표 Oct 27, 2008
• Mentor Graphics Announces Nucleus Platform Media Player for Rapid Delivery of Multimedia Applications Oct 27, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Veloce Deployed by Mitsubishi to Deliver High-Quality HDTV Video Decoder Chip Oct 15, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Olympus-SoC Place-and-Route System Slashes Design Closure Times with Industry’s First Parallel Timing Analysis and Optimization Technology Oct 13, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Acquires Flomerics Group PLC Oct 9, 2008

• TSMC Adopts Mentor Graphics Calibre Equation-Based DRC Feature for Advanced Physical Verification Oct 7, 2008

September 2008

• Voxdale and Conquest Racing in Top Gear for 2009 Sep 26, 2008

• Seagrave Deploys Mentor Graphics VeSys Software to Help Design, Manufacture and Service Fire Trucks for FDNY Sep 25, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces Precision Synthesis Support for New Xilinx Virtex-5 TXT Field Programmable Gate Arrays Sep 23, 2008

• Mentor Graphics and PTC Deliver Industry’s First Bi-Directional ECADSep 18, 2008

• IBM and Mentor Graphics to Develop 22nm Computational Lithography Solution for the Integrated Circuit Industry Sep 17, 2008

• New Release of the OVM Takes Verification to the Next Level Sep 11, 2008

• Flow Simulation Improves Photovoltaic Solar Panel Performance Sep 4, 2008

August 2008

• Mentor Graphics Chairman and CEO to Present Keynotes at 2008 EDA Tech Forum Events Aug 22, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Second Quarter Results Aug 20, 2008

• Mentor Graphics and Altera Partner on DO-254 Aug 19, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Responds to Cadence Announcement of Withdrawal of Acquisition Proposal Aug 15, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Eldo Adopted by TSMC for Cell Library Characterization of 40 Nanometer Technology Node Aug 12, 2008

• Mentor Graphics to Release Q2 Financial Results on August 20 Aug 8, 2008

• Thermal Simulation Helps Design New Telecom Platform That Delivers 40Gbps Bandwidth Aug 5, 2008

July 2008

• Mentor Graphics Delivers Simulation for Automotive and Aerospace Electrical Systems Designers in CHS 2008.1 Release Jul 29, 2008

• Flomerics Software Used to Create First Real-Time Cooling Calculator for Data Centers Jul 29, 2008

• Mentor Consulting Slashes Time-to-Mask at Dongbu HiTek with Optimized Calibre Flow Jul 22, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Donates Unified Coverage Database (UCDB) to the Accellera Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS) Technical Subcommittee Jul 18, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces Support of Model-driven Design for Six Sigma in the Automotive Industry Jul 17, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Achieves Industry-First OpenMAX Conformance for Nucleus OS Multimedia Framework Jul 16, 2008

• AEG Electric Tools GmbH Creates Cool Power Tools Faster with FloEFD Flow Simulation Jul 15, 2008

• Mentor Graphics' Calibre nmOPC Product Wins SI Editors’ Choice Best Product Award Jul 9, 2008

• Thermal Simulation Reduces Cost of Stacked Module Potting Compound 50% Jul 9, 2008

• Cash Offer for Flomerics by Mentor Graphics Jul 1, 2008

June 2008

• Mentor Graphics Retains Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch To Advise On Unsolicited Offer From Cadence Design Systems Jun 30, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Enhances inFact to Exploit Distributed Compute Environments Jun 26, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Publishes New Technology Book On BGA Routing by Charles Pfeil Jun 26, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Delivers High-Performance Platform for the Accelerated Verification of PCI Express Applications Jun 25, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Delivers High-Performance Platform for the Accelerated Verification of Multimedia Applications Jun 17, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Responds to Proposal from Cadence Design Systems Jun 17, 2008

• Flow Simulation Helps Solve Power LED Overheating Problem in One Day Jun 17, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Expands Nucleus Platform Solutions to Freescale i.MX31 Processor for Multimedia Applications Jun 13, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Provides Advanced Design For Manufacturing Capabilities in TSMC Reference Flow 9.0 Jun 12, 2008

• FloTHERM Achieves 95% Customer Satisfaction in New Survey Jun 11, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Outlines IC Implementation Strategy to Address Sub-45nm Challenges Jun 9, 2008

• Bronswerk Heat Transfer BV Promotes Flomerics’ FloEFD.Pro from R&D to Mainstream Engineering Design Jun 3, 2008

May 2008

• First Book Published on the Open Verification Methodology May 29, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Qualifies Calibre Model-based Planarity Flow for TSMC’s 65 and 40 nanometer IC Manufacturing Processes May 29, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Chairman and CEO to Moderate 6th Annual ESL Symposium Panel at DAC 2008 May 28, 2008

• Thales and Mentor Graphics Halve Time-to-Productivity for New Design Engineers May 27, 2008

• Four-Fold Increase in Educational Sites Using Flomerics EFD Software May 27, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Calibre LFD selected by STMicroelectronics for Litho Variability Analysis at 65 and 45 Nanometers May 23, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal First Quarter 2009 Results May 22, 2008

• New Video from Flomerics and Matchstick Productions Explains Human Flight in Wingsuits May 22, 2008

• Flomerics Announces Workshops on Optimizing Data Center Cooling May 21, 2008

• Toshiba Selects Mentor Graphics Calibre DFM Platform for its Device Extraction Flow May 19, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Supports Altera’s Stratix IV FPGA Device Family for 40 Nanometer Design Applications May 19, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Acquires Assets of Ponte SolutionsMay 15, 2008

• Thermal Simulation Speeds Design of Versatile Vertical/Horizontal Heatsink May 15, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces 20th Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards Program Winners May 14, 2008

• 멘토 그래픽스 세계 최초 SCP eService표준인증 받은 개인 맞춤형 웹 기반 고객 지원 포털 서비스 제공 May 13, 2008
• Mentor Graphics Offers Personalized Web Support Portals; First to Earn Certification under the SCP eService Standard May 13, 2008

• Active Chilled Beam Cooling Reduces Energy Usage 20% in North Carolina Lab May 9, 2008

• AMCC Uses FloTHERM & FloTHERM.PACK to Reduce IC Package Development Cost by Comparing Flip-Chip/Wire Bond Thermal Performance May 8, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Aligns Product Groups to Address IC Implementation Challenges at 45nm and Beyond May 7, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces Partnership with NXP Semiconductors for Design-for-Test Tools and Technology May 6, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces $140 Million Senior Unsecured Credit Facility May 2, 2008

• Mentor Graphics to Present at the Merrill Lynch Technology Conference 2008 May 1, 2008

April 2008

• Mentor Graphics Aligns with UMC to Validate the Accuracy of Calibre nmDRC Physical Verification UMC 65nm Deck Apr 29, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Names New Vice President Apr 24, 2008

• Mentor CEO to Keynote at The Integrated Electrical Solutions Forum in Orlando, Florida Apr 23, 2008

• Flomerics software predicts thermal performance of data centers Apr 22, 2008

• Simulation Helps Solve Difficult Thermal Challenge in Tower Mounted Amplifier Apr 22, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Accelerates “Smart” User Interface Innovation with Nucleus Software Platform for Atmel Microcontrollers Apr 15, 2008

• CFD-Online Launches Dedicated User Forum for Flomerics’ CAD-Embedded Simulation Software Apr 10, 2008

• FloTHERM.PACKSIM from Flomerics Accelerates Thermal Characterization of Semiconductor Packages Apr 10, 2008

• 멘토 그래픽스와 애질런트 테크놀로지 RF-PCB 개발 시간 50% 절감을 위한 EDA 통합 솔루션 발표 Apr 7, 2008
• Mentor Graphics and Agilent Technologies Announce Industry-First EDA Integrated Solution Expected to Cut RF-PCB Development Time in Half Apr 7, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces Synthesis Support for Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT Field Programmable Gate Arrays Apr 1, 2008

March 2008

• Mentor Graphics Expands Questa Functional Verification Platform with Questa Codelink for Processor-Driven Tests Mar 27, 2008

• Mentor Graphics to Present at the B. Riley & Co. 9th Annual Las Vegas Conference Mar 27, 2008

• STARC Establishes Variation-and-Yield-Aware Design Methodology using Mentor Graphics Calibre LFD Mar 26, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces Expanded Transportation Electrical Solutions Forums for 2008 Including First Military and Aerospace Events Mar 20, 2008

• Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City, and Mentor Graphics Collaborate to Support Electronic Design Education Mar 18, 2008

• Mentor Graphics New Version of Platform Express Supports  IP-XACT 1.4 Specification from The SPIRIT Consortium Mar 18, 2008

• Thales Air Systems Division Selects FloEFD.Pro Engineering Fluid Dynamics Software Embedded in Pro/ENGINEER Mar 18, 2008

• Simulation Helps Meet Thermal Challenges of World’s Fastest Supercomputer Mar 11, 2008

• Mentor Graphics President to Present at Citi Investment Research Small & Mid-Cap Conference Mar 6, 2008

• Dialight PLC Chooses FloEFD.Pro Engineering Fluid Dynamics Software for Pro/ENGINEER Mar 4, 2008

February 2008

• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter 2008 Results Feb 28, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Calibre nmOPC on Cell/B.E. Platform Qualified for Production at IBM Feb 26, 2008

• Mentor Graphics to Present at D. A. Davidson Electronic Systems Design Conference Feb 20, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Reports Preliminary Fiscal 2008 Annual Results Feb 19, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Delivers Breakthrough in Verification Intelligence Feb 18, 2008

• Cadence and Mentor Enhance Open Verification Methodology and Expand Community Activities to Support Rapidly Growing User Base Feb 14, 2008

• F1 Limitation on Use of CFD Software Could Benefit More Productive Software Providers Feb 7, 2008

• Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics Win DesignVision Award for Open Verification Methodology Feb 5, 2008

January 2008

• Thermal Simulation Validates Motor Design and Reduces Heatsink Weight Jan 30, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Releases Updated Serial ATA Host and Device Controllers for Storage Applications  Jan 24, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Veloce Emulator is one of the Hot 100 Products of 2007 Jan 23, 2008

• Mentor Graphics announces Catapult C Synthesis Accelerated Libraries for Xilinx High-Performance Virtex-5 FPGAs Jan 22, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Unveils Next Generation TestBench Xpress Jan 21, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Catapult C Synthesis Adopted for Fujitsu Standard ASIC Design Kit, Establishes Electronic System Level Reference Flow for Customers Jan 21, 2008

• Magma, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys Deliver Unified Power Format-based Products Jan 21, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces Scalable TLM-2.0 Design Flow Using Vista and Catapult C Synthesis Electronic System Level (ESL) Design Tools Jan 20, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Delivers the Industry’s First Physical Synthesis Solution for Altera Stratix III Device Family Jan 17, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Nucleus OS Offers a Seamless User Experience for Multimedia Devices Jan 16, 2008

• Thermal Simulation Dramatically Reduces Time to Design Complex Burn-in Test System Jan 15, 2008

• Mentor Graphics and Calypto Design Systems Announce Customer-Proven Electronic System Level Synthesis and Verification Flow Featuring Catapult C Synthesis and SLEC Sequential Equivalence Checker Jan 14, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Extends EDGE MAJIC JTAG Support for Cavium Networks OCTEON Plus Family Jan 11, 2008

• Mentor Graphics Announces 20th Annual PCB Technology Leadership Awards Program Jan 10, 2008

• Cadence and Mentor Announce Immediate Availability of the Open Verification Methodology Jan 9, 2008