Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics offers innovative products and solutions that help engineers overcome the design challenges they face in the increasingly complex worlds of board and chip design.

Mentor Graphics is available on the LINUX access stations hosted on the first and second floor terminal bays in SERC. It has many modules and the list of modules available at SERC can be viewed using the "Details" tab on the "License_watch" link against "Mentor Graphics" software. The License Watch link is:

URL : http://www.serc.iisc.ernet.in/phplicensewatch/

How to use:

After logging on to any of the linux machines do the follwoing:

   Make sure that you are in the C Shell, then at the prompt enter

             source /home/pkg/lic/vlsitools/mentor2007/mentor.cshrc

Now the environmetal variables have been set and you can use the mentor tools. For invocation of any module of mentor graphics please refer appropriate documentation hosted at

1. /home/pkg/lic/vlsitools/mentor2007/AMS_2007.1/docs/infohubs/index.html

2./home/pkg/lic/vlsitools/mentor2007/dft_2007/docs/infohubs/index.html

You can just copy this URL and paste it in the address bar of the browser sitting on any of the access stations at SERC.

Mentor Graphics Vendor Website: http://www.mentor.com