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 Your Resource for Design & Verification Information September 29, 2005 

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Spotlight
ModelSim Designer 6.1a Now Available!

ModelSim Designer delivers a complete FPGA design and verification environment.

Our focus is on improving your productivity which means the complete process of creation, management, simulation, and implementation is controlled from a single user interface, facilitating the design and verification flow and providing significant productivity gains.

New Features include:
  • New Hierarchical Design Browser and Actions Pane
  • New Documentation Option for HTML Output
  • Xilinx® Coregen Integration
  • Altera® MegaWizard Integration
  • New Lattice® Flow
  • Altera Quartus II 5.0 support
  • Actel® Designer & Libero 6.1 support
  • Xilinx ISE 7.1 support

ModelSim Designer is also very extensible with lots of options available like code coverage, SWIFT interface, and a profiler to identify your performance bottlenecks.

Evaluate it today and we look forward to helping you realize your vision.

 
Release Information   Standards Corner Dennis Brophy
ModelSim Designer 6.1a ModelSim 6.1 Questa Advanced Tcl/Tk Use by ModelSim

ModelSim has always been built around open standards from the initial embrace of VHDL and the tool command language Tcl/Tk to today’s SystemVerilog, SystemC and PSL languages now in the final stages of IEEE ratification. ModelSim’s support of Tcl/Tk was a departure from company proprietary schemes of the past, which made it easier for you and your design teams to learn and use ModelSim to its fullest. Many of the tools in your design chain followed our lead and are now using Tcl/Tk as well.

How can you get more out of Tcl/Tk? One way to get more out of Tcl/Tk is to attend the 12th Annual Tcl/Tk conference (Tcl2005) to be held in Portland, Ore. USA, October 24 – 26, 2005. As a sponsor of the event, we think this is one way to support evolution and improvements to Tcl/Tk. We will also share some of the details on our advanced use of Tcl/Tk in the latest releases of ModelSim. If you write advanced scripts to control your simulation runs, you will get the most up-to-date information on the advanced application of Tcl/Tk for ModelSim at Tcl2005. We look forward to seeing you there!
 

Dennis Brophy is the Director of Strategic Business Development for the Scalable Verification division at Mentor Graphics

Technical Resource Center
ModelSim 6.1

Questa


Mid-Atlantic Region Local Users Group

Thursday Oct. 6th, 2005
John Hopkins University, Laurel, MD

Join us for 24 presentations across six tracks, a co-located vendor fair, Mentor's own usability lab and a pre-show technical seminar on October 5th on advanced verification with Mentor's new Questa product. Register to attend.
 

12th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference

Come to the 12th Tcl/Tk Conference to:

  • Learn about the power of Tcl/Tk.
  • Present exciting new work involving Tcl/Tk.
  • See the latest developments in Tcl/Tk.
  • Meet Tcl/Tk researchers and users from academia, government and industry.
  • Plan for future Tcl/Tk related developments.

The conference program will include paper presentations, tutorials, Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions and invited key-note talks. The conference schedule will consist of 2 days of tutorials (Monday - Tuesday) and 3 days for the main conference (Wednesday - Friday).

October 24th - 26th


Questa World Wide Seminar Tour

This seminar will provide attendees with an understanding of relevant advanced verification topics that have been proven useful in verifying today's complex SoC designs. Concepts and techniques behind an advanced verification methodology that will be discussed include: Testbench Automation, Constrained-Random Verification, Assertions, Functional Coverage and Formal Verification.

Europe Dates and Locations
Pacific Rim Dates and Locations
Japan Dates and Locations


ARM Developers’ Conference

The 2005 ARM Developers’ Conference will feature three days of in-depth presentations from ARM, OEMs, Silicon Partners, EDA, and Tools and Service Suppliers.

Visit the Mentor booth (#214) and attend our sessions.

October 4-6, 2005 – Santa Clara, CA

More information


Solutions Expo 2005

We are pleased to invite you to this year's Solutions Expos in Europe.
As usual we have arranged an extensive and certainly interesting program for you.

Industry known speakers will talk about today's and tomorrow's technology challenges.
Dedicated conference tracks will focus on:

  • System and PCB design
  • FPGA- and Asic Design
  • Hot topics in Nanometer design
  • Scalable verification and test
  • Embedded Software development

In addition you will receive information at first hand as well as tips and tricks from users for users.

So don't miss this exciting opportunity to update your skills and technology knowledge, keeping you competitive in the global market.

Dates and locations


Workshop : FPGA Re-spins Are No Longer Free

This workshop will demonstrate effectively how to meet complex design requirements by analyzing performance and verifying functionality early and frequently throughout the design process as well as address how to identify pin assignment early on by synchronizing the HDL with the board design.

Baltimore (Columbia) – October 5th
Chicago (Schaumburg) – November 3rd

Submit your interest today!


HDL Design Seminars
 
Oct 11 in Zilina, Slovakia
Oct 12 in Brno, Czech Republic

Register today
 

Reduce Your HDL Design Cycle by 30% Seminar

The challenge for designers today is to meet deadlines. Time savings can be gained through improving techniques and having the right tools to automate many of the tasks that would otherwise consume hours and even weeks. Register to attend this lunch & learn seminar.

San Jose, October 11 and 25, November 8 and December 6

Registration


EDA Tech Forums

A one-day forum provides the EE design community the opportunity to network with peers. The format includes:

  • Industry expert keynotes
  • Hands-on workshop labs – you drive the tools
  • Vendor fair to discover the partners' latest solutions
  • Technical sessions in the following design areas:
    • System Design
    • Functional Verification
    • Embedded Systems Design
    • Design to Silicon
    • IC Nanometer Design
    • Electronic System Level Design

Events worldwide


Mentor Graphics International User Conference

May 2-5, 2006 | San Jose, CA

Call For Papers Now Open! Abstract Submission Deadline: October 28, 2005

You are invited to share your technical expertise with other engineers and designers at User2User 2006. The primary goal of our highly-interactive, in-depth user conference is to deliver immediately useful technical knowledge. We encourage you to submit an abstract for a presentation that helps other Mentor users from around the world understand your best practices, innovative design solutions, and success stories. Complete abstract submission details.


ModelSim Training

SystemVerilog with Questa
Nov 1 Dallas
Nov 9 Austin
Nov 16 San Jose

ModelSim HDL Simulation
Nov 8 San Jose

ModelSim Advanced Debugging
Nov 9 San Jose


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