Mentor Graphics Corporation, , the market and technology leader in printed circuit board (PCB) design solutions, today announced its collaboration with VIA Technologies, Inc., a Taiwan-based company, to provide reference designs for use with the Expedition™ Series design flow for VIA's next generation chipsets called P4M800/Pro, PT894/Pro and K8T890/Pro.

These reference designs, only available through VIA, accelerate the creation of computer motherboard designs using VIA devices with the Expedition design flow. These reference designs enable Expedition users to re-use design data for high-speed or complex designs, significantly reducing design risk and time, while increasing design quality.

"This collaborative effort with VIA enables our customers to meet and exceed performance and time to market goals," said Henry Potts, vice president and general manager of Mentor Graphics Systems Design Division. "We are providing our customers with yet another tool to achieve optimal system performance while accelerating design processes and improving overall design quality of their motherboard designs."

Microprocessors, and their associated chipsets, continue to increase in density, speed and pin count. This makes it increasingly difficult for printed circuit board designers to meet interconnect timing and signal integrity constraint challenges while placing and routing these complex microprocessor components on the board. To facilitate design-in of VIA chipsets, VIA provides their customers with motherboard reference designs for each of the industry's most popular microprocessors, including VIA's own processor. These reference designs include schematic symbols, footprints, and fan-outs for all parts on the board, including the VIA parts.

"Customer demand for Mentor Graphics® Expedition Series continues to grow in our market," said Weber Chuang, director of technical marketing of VIA Technologies, Inc. "We see tremendous value in providing this service to our customers that use Mentor Graphics tools."

For more information on the VIA Reference Designs for Expedition, go to http://www.mentor.com/products/pcb/expedition/design_kits/index.cfm#ref

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