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Mentor Graphics Corporation (San Jose, CA) and Altera Corp. (San Jose, CA) today announced that Mentor Graphics has joined the Altera Megafunction Partner Program (AMPP). Mentor Graphics will offer twenty Inventra commodity cores to Altera customers developing next-generation signal processing, networking, bus interface, and memory applications.

The Altera Megafunction Partnership Program is comprised of Intellectual Property (IP) core providers developing optimized system-on-a-programmable-chip solutions for Altera programmable logic devices (PLDs). The cores will be available via the web as optimized netlists. The cores will be sold and supported by the Mentor Graphics Inventra IP division and will be available for download at: http://www.mentor.com/inventra/netlist_program/altera_pld_program.

Cores offered by Altera AMPP partners are reusable, synthesizable megafunctions that are optimized for Altera PLDs. AMPP functions are hardware description language (HDL) design files of complex, system-level functions that are developed, pre-tested, documented, and endorsed for use in Altera devices.

Mentor Graphics offers risk-free core evaluation over the web using FPGA Advantage, the industry's most advanced HDL solution for FPGA design. Through the Web-based evaluation, licensing and delivery model, system developers can dramatically shorten traditionally lengthy design cycles.

The following Inventra IP cores for Altera PLD devices are scheduled for licensing and download from the Mentor Graphics Inventra IP website in the first quarter 2001. The cores will be available at: http://www.mentor.com/inventra/netlist_program/altera_pld_program. Mentor Graphics plans additional availability in the upcoming months.

Mentor Graphics continues to offer the above cores in their original RTL format.

Edited by David Maliniak
Managing Editor, ElectronicsWeb.com

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