PIVOT Calibre Design Solutions Service

1. PIVOT Calibre Design SolutionsService Features • Multi-day onsite assistance from a Mentor Graphics Calibre Design Solutions support engineer • Invests time up front to fully understand your environment and flow • Works side by side with your team Benefits • Implementation issues can be quickly and directly addressed • Allows for a more targeted and faster adoption process • Your team achieves faster time to productivity Accelerate Implementation of Your Calibre Design Solutions Environment Adopting your design environment to the features and advantages of Mentor Graphics Calibre Design Solutions tools nmDRC, nmLVS, xACT3D, DESIGNrev and Calibre Interactive with RVE can be streamlined with the PIVOT Calibre Design Solutions Service, a Select Support Service from Mentor. With this service, a Mentor Graphics Calibre Design Solutions support engineer will work onsite as you deploy your new project. Their extensive experience and guidance will help save you hours so your flow will be running in the most efficient manner possible. With their knowledge of design flow processes, they will work with you to ensure the latest best practices are utilized. This multi-day effort enables you to address any implementation issues directly and quickly, helping to eliminate what can sometimes take weeks to solve. The support engineer’s preparation begins before arriving at your site with a requirements gathering meeting. This session will allow them to develop a better understanding of your environment; review your flow goals, performance concerns and discuss upcoming projects. Typically, this service requires between 2 and 5 days on site, plus the requirements gathering meeting. At the conclusion of this service, you will be better prepared to maximize productivity in your test flow, in addition to having the necessary setup and configuration completed for utilizing the tools. You may elect to add advanced, focused tool training for maximum efficiency.

2. Key Details • Preparation meeting before onsite work • Takes your test case from initial layout through the Calibre flow up until the post-tapeout (PTO) stage • Enables the support engineer to gain an understanding of your environment, available hardware compatibility with your tasks, processes, and goals; discuss prerequisites; identify areas for special attention, and provide more targeted guidance when onsite • Works with your team onsite to streamline adoption of Calibre Design Solutions tools to suit your needs; examples include: • Review verification and data generation principles and best practices • On the spot identification of bottlenecks and immediate steps to alleviate them • Offsite testcase testing to isolate site hardware and operating system issues • Will take your design through the Calibre Design Solutions flow to the PTO stage. • About Mentor Graphics Customer Support • Mentor Graphics offers leading support for EDA tools, providing rapid, expert response to technical product issues for the complete suite of Mentor Graphics products. • To help design teams around the world accelerate product development and increase quality, Mentor Graphics offers a smooth transition to product enhancements and new releases, timely access to technical assistance, an ever-expanding array of online solutions, and premium support for special situations. • On SupportNet you can : • Troubleshoot technical issues through TechNotes • Download latest releases • Reference documentation • Open & track Service Requests • Manage licensing • Access system administration information • Suggest, vote and comment on product improvements with Mentor Ideas • Learn, share and network with other users on Mentor Communities • Implementation issues are directly addressed • Adoption of your Calibre Design Solutions system will be accelerated, increasing your team’s productivity • Reduce the number of Verification-related stops/starts that typically occur early in the adoption process by proactively addressing flow pitfalls