Corporate Overview At a Glance: Mentor Graphics® is a technology leader in electronic design automation (EDA), providing software and hardware design solutions that enable companies to send better electronic products to market faster and more cost-effectively. The company offers innovative products and solutions that help engineers overcome the design challenges they face in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design   Publicly held (NASDAQ: MENT)   Founded 1981, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon   3,850 employees   Revenue in last reported 12 months: approximately $700 million   World-class research and development - 28 engineering sites worldwide   High-touch, global distribution channel - 48 sales offices around the world   Strategic partnerships with leading electronics manufacturers, semiconductor and electronic design suppliers for development of new design solutions and methodologies Some Areas of Focus: HDL and FPGA Design With its market leadership in VHDL and mixed HDL simulation, FPGA synthesis, and design capture and management, Mentor Graphics is the market's single vendor source for an integrated solution for multi-million-gate field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design. In addition, Mentor has point-tool excellence in high-end HDL design with simulation and design capture and management. Best-in-class products include: ModelSim® digital simulation; ModelSim Designer From-Creation-to-Realization; HDL Designer Series™ for design entry, analysis and management; and Precision Synthesis™ to maximize performance of programmable logic devices and next-generation field-programmable systems-on-chip. Integrated PCB-FPGA Systems Design As ICs, ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) and FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) become more complex and printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication technology advances to include embedded components and high-density interconnect layers, the design of PCBs is reaching new levels of complexity. These are frequently a source of design bottlenecks. Mentor Graphics is the market and technology leader in PCB design, providing many of the world’s largest system design companies today with a range of scalable design solutions to reduce the time, cost and risk of electronic system design: the Expedition™ Series, for the creation of today’s most complex PCB designs; the Board Station® family, the market standard solution for the PCB design challenges of the global enterprise; and the PADS® flow, the leading Windows-based solution for complex PCB design. Mentor Graphics also offers solutions for specific design challenges such as high-speed routing and verification advanced packaging, concurrent team design, FPGA-on-board integration and design data management. Further Information