Mentor Graphics acquires the Certus product for ASIC Prototyping Debug

[Daniel Payne]

I had interviewed Brad Quinton, founder of Veridae after his company was acquired by Tektronix. We met in March 2013 at the Tektronix campus in Beaverton, where I learned about the Certus product for ASIC Prototyping Debug. Today I discovered that Mentor Graphics bought the Certus product line. Looking at the HTML source code for the one Mentor Graphics web page reveals that the page was last modified on January 6, 2014. Perhaps Mentor bought this technology in January and has kept the news very low key.

Another source pegs the acquisition as the middle of 2013. Either way, this is good news for the Certus technology because now it has a very capable group of AEs and sales people to build awareness for it.

Blogs about Tektronix and Certus:

• Full Visibility in ASIC Prototypes at DAC
• SoC Performance Optimization Using FPGA Prototyping
• Tektronix at #50DAC
• Accelerating Design Debug in an ASIC Prototype
• View from the top: Brad Quinton
• Is debugging a task, or a continuous process?
• Seeing inside SoC designs, from the beginning
• Engineer to Engineer, Embedded Instrumentation
• Apply within: four embedded instrumentation approaches
• ASIC Prototyping: Dini Group and Tektronix
• Embedding 100K probes in FPGA-based prototypes
• Improving FPGA Prototype Debugging

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[Daniel Payne]

Update - Contact Stephen Bailey at Mentor Graphics for any product availability questions about Certus, we chatted today by phone and he is in the Colorado office. stephen_bailey at mentor dot com