Mentor Graphics Corporation was a US -based electronic design automation (EDA) multinational corporation for electrical engineering and electronics , headquartered in Wilsonville , Oregon. Founded in 1981, the company distributed products that assist in electronic design automation , simulation tools for analog mixed-signal design, VPN solutions, and fluid dynamics and heat transfer tools. The company leveraged Apollo Computer workstations to differentiate itself within the computer-aided engineering (CAE) market with its software and hardware .
5-617: [REDACTED] Look up pads in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. PADS may refer to: PADS (CAD software) , family of software tools, see Mentor Graphics Pads , sports protective equipment Post-Avatar depression syndrome See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "pads" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with PADS All pages with titles containing PADS PAD (disambiguation) Pad (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
10-570: A frenzied development, the IDEA 1000 product was introduced at the 1982 Design Automation Conference , though in a suite and not on the floor. Mentor Graphics was purchased by Siemens in 2017. The name was retired in 2021 and renamed Siemens EDA, a segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software . Mentor product development was located in the US, Taiwan, Egypt, Poland, Hungary, Japan, France, Canada, Pakistan, UK, Armenia, India and Russia. Mentor offered
15-654: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages PADS (CAD software) Mentor Graphics was acquired by Siemens in 2017. The name was retired in 2021 and renamed Siemens EDA , a segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software . Mentor Graphics was founded in 1981 by Tom Bruggere , Gerry Langeler, and Dave Moffenbeier, all formerly of Tektronix . The company raised $ 55 million in funding through an initial public offering in 1984. Mentor initially wrote software that ran only in Apollo workstations. When Mentor entered
20-578: The CAE market the company had two technical differentiators: the first was the software – Mentor, Valid, and Daisy each had software with different strengths and weaknesses. The second, was the hardware – Mentor ran all programs on the Apollo workstation, while Daisy and Valid each built their own hardware. By the late 1980s, all EDA companies abandoned proprietary hardware in favor of workstations manufactured by companies such as Apollo and Sun Microsystems . After
25-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title PADS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PADS&oldid=1252420639 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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