Mentor Graphics acquires Alcatel IP biz

NEW DELHI: In its bid to consolidate its position in the standards-based Intellectual Property (IP) domain, Mentor Graphics Corp has announced that it has acquired Alcatel's complete line of Ethernet and media access control (MAC) IP.

The move adds Alcatel's Ethernet IP to Mentor's broadening portfolio of standards-certified cores, such as PCI Express, 802.11, Bluetooth, USB 2.0 and USB On-The-Go. Mentor Graphics will honor all existing support contracts for current licensees and will integrate the newly acquired engineering and marketing resources into its own IP division.

"For more than two years, Mentor Graphics has worked in tandem with Alcatel to provide customers with access to critical Ethernet MAC products for their System-on-Chip (SoC) applications," said Mentor Graphics IP division general manager Michael Kaskowitz.

"This acquisition adds some of the semiconductor industry's most popular communications IP cores to the Inventra portfolio. We are committed to serving the needs of Alcatel's current installed base and look forward to providing design teams with an extended technology roadmap for communications IP that will include embedded TCP/IP software, CPU bus wrappers, analog component and interface bridges."