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Atmel Extends and Expands Partnership With Mentor Graphics, OEM Agreement Spans Synthesis, Simulation and Verification

San Jose, California and Wilsonville, Oregon, November 9
(ots/PRNewswire)

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT), today announced a multi-year extension and expansion of the existing OEM agreement for advanced synthesis, simulation, and verification tools from Mentor Graphics. The new agreement signifies the industry's most comprehensive OEM relationship between a programmable logic device (PLD) vendor and electronic design automation (EDA) solutions provider, and spans the full spectrum of tools essential for both FPGA and CPLD design.

Through this OEM agreement, FPGA designers can now easily realize
the power of the Precision(R) RTL Synthesis tool from Mentor Graphics
within Atmel's FPSLIC(R) FPGA and the ProChip Designer(R) CPLD
development systems. Additionally, the partnership extends support of
the industry leading ModelSim(R) simulator from Mentor Graphics to
all of Atmel's CPLD devices. Users of the FPSLIC development system
will get continued support for both the ModelSim simulator and the
Seamless(R) hardware/software co-verification product from Mentor
Graphics.
"Mentor Graphics is a leader in FPGA and PLD design tools. We have
partnered closely over the past five years, and Atmel is pleased to
extend our long standing relationship," said Gladwyn D'Souza, product
director, Programmable Devices, Atmel Corporation. "Our customers
need complete synthesis, simulation, and verification solutions for
both CPLD and FPGA development flows. So it was an easy choice to
select Mentor Graphics to help complement and enhance Atmel's design
tool suite for our new devices. Working in close partnership, Mentor
Graphics tools will help our customers take advantage of the
exceptional value and performance of Atmel devices," he concluded.
"This agreement reaffirms Mentor Graphics continued technology and
business leadership in FPGA design tools, and is reflective of our
commitment to provide comprehensive solutions for a broad range of
programmable logic devices. By combining the strengths of our
Precision RTL Synthesis, ModelSim and Seamless tools with Atmel's
devices, we offer our mutual customers unprecedented performance and
functionality," said Simon Bloch, general manager, Design Creation
and Synthesis Division, Mentor Graphics. "We firmly believe that the
addition of these advanced synthesis, simulation, and verification
tools to their FPGA and CPLD design tools will enable new customers
to adopt Atmel's technology."
Advanced Design Capabilities and Improved Performance
The Precision RTL Synthesis tool is designed to enable
professional design engineers to quickly analyze, diagnose and
resolve complex design issues with powerful features such as an
ASIC-strength static timing analysis tool and intuitive design
project management. This power ultimately creates outstanding
performance in customers' end applications. Mentor Graphics is
currently optimizing Precision RTL Synthesis support for Atmel's CPLD
devices as well as FPSLIC FPGAs. Extended Atmel device support will
be available in the next Precision RTL Synthesis release later this
year. Shipments of Atmel development systems, including the new
configurations with Mentor Graphics tools, are expected early next
year.
About Atmel FPSLIC and CPLD Devices
Atmel's AT94K and AT94S family of Field Programmable System Level
Integrated Circuits (FPSLIC devices) combine all the basic system
building blocks (logic, memory and uC) in an SRAM-based monolithic
field programmable device. The FPSLIC programmable SLI platform
allows true system level designs to be implemented without the need
for expensive NRE (non-recurring engineering) charges or costly
software tools. FPSLIC for the first time puts system level
integration on every designer's desk. The FPSLIC Secure (AT94S)
combination of FPSLIC and the serial configuration memory in a single
package allows for ISP and remote updates of FPSLIC while hiding
programming code for the FPGA and AVR micro.
Atmel's ATF15xx CPLD family offers pin-compatible supersets of the
popular 7000 and 3000 series devices ranging from 32 to 128 (soon to
be 256) macrocells with propagation delays from 7.5 to 15 ns for 5V
standard power versions and 15 ns for 3.3V versions. All products are
available in low voltage versions and Atmel's proprietary low-power
("L") versions that use Input Transition Detection (ITD) to power
down the device automatically when nothing is switching. All devices
also support JTAG in-system programming (ISP).
About Atmel
Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of
microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory
and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's
broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is
able to provide the electronics industry with complete system
solutions. Focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications,
computing and automotive markets, Atmel ICs can be found Everywhere
You Are(SM).
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation is a world leader in electronic
hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most
successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in
1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about
US$675 million and employs approximately 3,800 people worldwide.
Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road,
Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777; Silicon Valley headquarters are
located at 1001 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California 95131-2314.
World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/ .
NOTE: Atmel(R), logo and combinations thereof and FPSLIC(R) and
ProChip Designer(R) are registered trademarks, and Everywhere You
Are(SM) is the trademark of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries.
Mentor Graphics, Precision, ModelSim, Seamless, and specific product
designations are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Mentor
Graphics Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or
other countries. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of
others.
Information:
For further information on Programmable Logic, go to
http://www.atmel.com/products/Config/ and
http://www.atmel.com/products/PLD/
Atmel Press Contacts:
    Clive Over, Director of Press Relations - USA and Asia
    Phone: +1-408-451-2855, Email:  cliveover@atmel.com
    Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications Manager - Europe
    Phone: +33-1-30-60-70-68, Email:  veronique.sablereau@atmel.com
    Web site: http://www.mentor.com
    Web site: http://www.atmel.com

Contact:

Clive Over, Director of Press Relations - USA and Asia,
+1-408-451-2855, or cliveover@atmel.com, or Veronique Sablereau,
Corporate Communications Manager - Europe, +33-1-30-60-70-68, or
veronique.sablereau@atmel.com, both of Atmel Corporation

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