The lnventra business unit of Mentor Graphics supply a wide of IP designs for use in ASIC designs. These designs are pre-designed and fully tested. Many of the designs are equivalent to the industry standard parts and include 8051 and 8052, 8-bit microcontrollers, I2C, PCMCIA, USB, PCI, 8CSI II 1284 and FIREWIRE interface elements. All designs come with an extensive functional test batch.

Prime:		Supply of IP
Subsidiary:
Employees:		10-50

	PLD		FPGA		Masked ASIC
	Microcontroller		Other

Industrial, comms, consumer, data processing, instrumentation.

PC Based:		Other:	YES
Details:	SUN SPARCstation based design tools. Synopsys output formats VHDL and Verilog RTC and Gate level netlists.