Mentor Graphics Joins Altera’s DO-254 Global Partner Network

Supporting the growing number of avionics and military applications requiring DO-254-certifiable components, Altera Corp. and Mentor Graphics Corp. announced the companies are working together to develop tools and methodologies for use in creating DO-254-certifiable intellectual property (IP) that targets Altera’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) and HardCopy application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) solutions. As part of this announcement, Mentor will join Altera’s DO-254 Global Partner Network in order to establish design and verification best practices for DO 254-certifiable IP development and integration flows.

Under this initiative, Mentor will leverage its expertise and industry-leading design and verification solutions in the development of DO-254-certifiable IP. The primary tools in Mentor’s DO-254 suite include HDL Designer, Precision Synthesis, ModelSim, Questa, the 0-In suite of formal verification tools, and a new solution for automating requirements traceability. Mentor also offers DO-254 compliance training, design methodology assessments, and consulting services, including a DO-254 Jumpstart package aimed at establishing advanced verification methodologies for DO-254 designs.

Altera, through its DO-254 Global Partner Network, currently offers a safety-critical version of its Nios II embedded processor. The certification aspects of this core were developed by HCELL Engineering using Mentor tools.