Mentor Graphics Introduces Precision Rad-Tolerant Product to Provide Unique Advanced Radiation Effects Mitigation
03 6월 2010 - 10:00PM
Marketwired
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced its new
Precision® Rad-Tolerant™ FPGA design solution for aerospace and
high-reliability applications. The product, developed with NASA's
guidance, introduces an industry-first, synthesis-based radiation
effects mitigation solution to reduce the risk of functionality
problems including soft errors caused by single event upset (SEU)
and single event transient (SET) disruptions. Initial support is
available for SRAM, anti-fuse, and flash-based devices from Actel®
and Xilinx®.
With Precision Rad-Tolerant, Mentor is addressing the critical
need for automated, FPGA vendor-independent methods of radiation
effects mitigation. Alternative mitigation methods, such as manual
HDL coding, can be either too costly, time consuming, or
error-prone. The Precision Rad-Tolerant solution also delivers all
of the unique synthesis-based capabilities of Precision RTL Plus,
including low power synthesis, integration with Mentor tools, and
specialized features and flows for mil-aero and safety-critical
applications.
The Precision Rad-Tolerant product has several unique features
that make it much easier for designers to incorporate a variety of
radiation effects mitigation schemes, such as automated,
multi-vendor, multi-mode Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR). The tool
builds on -- and enhances -- proven mitigation methods such as
redundancy of sequential and combinational logic. Because TMR
insertion is performed at the synthesis level, designers are no
longer limited to using fully radiation-tolerant devices and can
achieve higher-quality results versus alternative mitigation
approaches.
By addressing radiation effects during implementation, the
features of the Precision Rad-Tolerant solution provide an
unmatched level of automation and user control. "Although the
concept of TMR is simple, writing a reliable VHDL equivalent is
not," stated Melanie Berg, MEI Technologies, NASA/GSFC Radiation
Effects and Analysis Group. "Automating TMR logic insertion, while
allowing the user to select the type of TMR mitigation, is very
beneficial to a FPGA designer developing critical space
applications."
A unique feature of the Precision Rad-Tolerant product is
synthesis-based insertion of fault-tolerant finite state machines
(FSM). The resulting FSM can "absorb" radiation-induced single
event upsets (SEUs), mitigating their effect rather than switching
the state machine into an unknown or unpredictable state. This form
of safeguard meets the needs of a wide range of high-reliability
applications.
"Mentor Graphics is enhancing the FPGA design flow for high
reliability," said Ken O'Neill, director of high reliability
marketing for Actel. "With support for our RT ProASIC3 FPGAs,
Precision Rad-Tolerant allows designers of space-flight systems to
take advantage of the reprogrammability and low power consumption
of flash-based FPGAs. Additionally, designers of high-reliability
systems which must withstand radiation environments, such as
oncology systems and airborne avionics systems, can use Precision
Rad-Tolerant to protect critical data paths in ProASIC®3, IGLOO®,
and Fusion® families."
"Xilinx provides proven solutions for space and high-reliability
applications that are unique to our leading-edge Virtex families,"
stated Tom Feist, senior marketing director for the Xilinx ISE®
Design Suite. "Mentor Graphics delivers a unique, synthesis-based
approach to soft error mitigation that complements Xilinx solutions
for high reliability applications."
"Mentor is uniquely positioned as the leading EDA provider of
FPGA solutions for military, aerospace and high-reliability
applications," stated Daniel Platzker, FPGA Synthesis product line
director, Mentor Graphics Design Creation and Synthesis Division.
"Precision Rad-Tolerant fills a void for FPGA designers that are
concerned with radiation by providing radiation effects mitigation
capabilities that are unmatched by any other product available
today."
Product Availability The Precision
Rad-Tolerant product is available now. For more information on the
Precision Rad-Tolerant product and other FPGA synthesis and
mil-aero solutions from Mentor Graphics, visit the company website
at: www.mentor.com/precision-radtolerant.
About Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics
Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware
and software design solutions, providing products, consulting
services and award-winning support for the world's most successful
electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the
company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $800
million. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman
Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics and Precision are registered trademarks and
Rad-Tolerant is a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All
other company or product names are the registered trademarks or
trademarks of their respective owner.).
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For more information, please contact: Larry Toda Mentor Graphics
503.685.1664 larry_toda@mentor.com Suzanne Graham Mentor Graphics
503.685.7789 suzanne_graham@mentor.com
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