WILSONVILLE, Ore., Oct. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor Graphics®
Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the integration of
its Questa® Verification Solution with the Jenkins Continuous
Integration and Source Code Management (CI/SCM) ecosystem. As
a result, Mentor Graphics Questa users are now able to manage and
control regressions running Questa Formal and Questa Simulation
tools from within the Jenkins dashboard. They can also use
Jenkins to interpret and analyze results, generate a complete suite
of charts and graphs, and automatically generate status and trend
reports for management. By integrating Questa tools with the
Jenkins Ecosystem, Mentor Graphics doubles verification management
productivity, which according to the Wilson Research Group is one
of the top four time-consuming tasks faced by both ASIC and FPGA
verification teams around the world.
Jenkins is the leading open-source automation server that
enables engineers around the world to reliably build, test, and
deploy their software projects. Over the past several years,
many project teams have begun to adopt Jenkins to support their
verification projects as well. However, with existing
solutions verification engineers can run only their verification
engines from within Jenkins. They receive very little
meaningful information about their verification results through
Jenkins, requiring them to manually interpret and analyze
results. Jenkins is a continuous integration management
environment, but does not directly support the management,
execution, and analysis of verification toolsets. The Mentor
Graphics Questa Verification Run Manager (VRM) plugin gives Jenkins
the ability to utilize regression run results through the Questa
VRM system, in addition to managing and running their regressions
through Jenkins.
"We cordially welcome Mentor Graphics into the Jenkins ecosystem
and community," said Oleg Nenashev,
engineer at CloudBees and Jenkins core team member. "The
Questa VRM plugin is one of the very first open-source plugins
tightly integrating an EDA tool into Jenkins. Such plugins will
greatly help with setting up efficient, continuous integration and
delivery in hardware and embedded projects. As one of the top
EDA vendors, Mentor Graphics shows a great example to all users and
competitors. We are looking forward to more integrations with the
Mentor Graphics tool chain and increased use of Jenkins in the
area."
The Questa VRM plugin pulls in important information about
regression runs and displays it in the Jenkins cockpit, enabling
users to easily observe, analyze, and report the latest regression
results, as well as regression trends over time. Questa VRM
also enables users to launch any tool within the Mentor Graphics
Enterprise Verification Platform™ including its portable stimulus
generator, performance analysis, and debugging environments.
"Integrating the Mentor Graphics Questa Solution into the
Jenkins CI/SCM ecosystem lets users take advantage of the benefits
of both systems in a single environment," says Mark Olen, Mentor Graphics product marketing
manager, Design Verification Technology Division. "The two
complementary environments create a more productive and efficient
verification flow, enabling customers to achieve maximum
utilization of their formal and simulation systems."
Integration with the Jenkins CI/SCM ecosystem is available to
all Mentor Graphics Questa users. The Questa VRM plugin is
available for free download on the Jenkins open source automation
server.
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 electronic, semiconductor and systems companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last
fiscal year of approximately $1.18
billion. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W.
Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon
97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
For More Information
Laura Parker
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1775
Laura_parker@mentor.com
Mentor Graphics and Questa are registered trademarks of Mentor
Graphics Corporation. Enterprise Verification Platform is a
trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or
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