WILSONVILLE, OR - Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced the 2008 Integrated Electrical Solutions Forum (IESF). The forum is a one-day event for electrical and electronic systems design, modeling, simulation and analysis within the automotive industry. This event has been expanded to include military and aerospace events and new forums in Brazil, Japan and Korea.

The first IESF Military and Aerospace event will take place on May 1st in Orlando, Florida. Registration for this event is now open at www.mentor.com/go/iesf. The keynote speaker will be Walden C. Rhines, Mentor Graphics CEO and Chairman. Guest speakers include representatives from Bell Helicopter, Alliant Techsystems, Patmos Engineering Services, and IBM.

Technical breakout tracks will focus on electrical design and simulation, covering subjects such as IP capture, analysis-driven design and design data integration. Additional tracks cover DO-254 safety critical systems and PCB design for military and aerospace applications.

“Having attended IESF for the past few years I have found [that] the presentations are of the highest standard, informative and thought provoking. I particularly find the breakouts around the main agenda to be very useful," said Kelly Esch of AM General.

Mentor Graphics also announced a ‘call for papers’ for the IESF Automotive and Off-Highway event to be held in Detroit on December 9th. For more information, go to www.mentor.com/go/iesf.

TOKYO, JAPAN – Valor Computerized Systems has established a technological partnership with Nagoya Electric of Japan, a developer of advanced Automatic Inspection equipment.

The alliance will allow users of Nagoya’s inspection machines to reportedly shorten their setup time by accessing the ODB++ models of the PCB and a specific layer of data that contains a representation of component geometry based on Valor’s Part Library (VPL).

 “We are pleased to welcome Nagoya Electric as a new member of our Global Alliance Program,” said David Bengal, VP Marketing and Business Development at Valor. “The Automatic Inspection market presents a great opportunity for Valor. We believe that this partnership will bring new added value to Nagoya’s large and loyal customer base.”

SAN JOSE, CA – Dr. Eric Bogatin will conduct two seminars covering signal integrity design principles. The first, entitled Essential Principles of Signal Integrity will be held on April 7 and 8 and focuses on building “engineering intuition” concerning signal integrity, and to reveal root causes and resulting design guidelines to eliminate signal integrity problems.

The follow-up seminar on April 9 and 10 is called Best Board Design Practices, which focuses on creating design rules by balancing performance tradeoffs, and learning how to use calculations and analysis tools to answer important design questions in stack up design, differential pair routing, via design, PDN design and more.

The seminar will be held in the Altera Corporation building, located at 101 Innovation Drive in San Jose. Registration information can be found at www.BeTheSignal.com.

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM - Mentor Graphics has signed an agreement with Applied Micro Circuits and the Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City to collaborate on educational courses for two new electronic design laboratories.

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