Mentor Graphics Has Hand in Intel's Grantsdale

Online staff -- Electronic News, 2/3/2004

Mentor Graphics Corp. will have a hand in Intel Corp.'s next-generation chipset, Grantsdale.

The EDA player today announced it has worked to provide Intel with drop-in core layout (DCL) kits for use with the Mentor Graphics Expedition printed circuit board (PCB) design flow.

The DCL kit, available through Intel, will provide an Intel reference motherboard design, integrating the CPU, chipset and other motherboard components for use with the Expedition PCB design flow. The DCL kit for Expedition will be available this year following the introduction of the new chipset by Intel, Mentor said.

"The work Mentor Graphics has invested in these DCL efforts should allow its customers to take advantage of the product launch collateral Intel makes available to our developers, such as this DCL," said Mary Madison, director of platform applications engineering in Intel's desktop platforms group, in a statement.
 
Grantsdale is scheduled for release in the first half of the year.