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Mentor Graphics Corporation todayannounced signing Beijing Ruihesoft Co., Ltd., previously areseller of Altium's products, as a distributor of Mentor's PrintedCircuit Board (PCB) systems design products in China. The productportfolio will include the PADS® PCB design flow as well as theHyperLynx® family for high-speed signal interconnect simulation.This portfolio is tuned to the predominant needs of China'selectronics companies, developing leading-edge systems withpowerful desktop design solutions.
"Electronicsystems and semiconductor components are getting more and morecomplex," stated Feng Quanyu, general manager of Beijing RuihesoftCo., Ltd. "Mentor Graphics provides the industry's best,affordable, innovative technology for users of individual desktoptool solutions as well as for enterprises with more complex designprocesses and organizations. Ruihesoft and Mentor Graphics willwork together to provide total solutions and service for electronicsystem design companies in China. At a June 9th PCB seminar inBeijing held together with Mentor Graphics, hundreds of usershighlighted the growing need for more powerful design and analysissolutions that deliver fast, accurate and repetitiveresults."
"We are pleased tohave Ruihesoft as our partner in China," says Rick Bosshardt, vicepresident of Mentor's Geography and Distribution Channel."Ruihesoft is providing us with a broader coverage, adding fiveadditional major cities in northern and eastern China. Theirexperience as a former Altium reseller, the excellent trainingfacilities, and the reputation for their outstanding support andserving their customers' needs will allow us to expand very quicklyinto new market segments by offering the best available products toevery PCB design engineer in China."
Over the pastyear, Mentor Graphics has made significant enhancements and addedindustry-unique and innovative technologies to its PCB designflows:
The PADS 9.0release adds new levels of functionality, scalability andintegration, enabling designers to leverage many of Mentor's uniqueand innovative technologies for design, analysis, manufacturing andmulti-disciplined collaboration.
The HyperLynx 8.0product expands the industry-leading signal integrity solution witheasy-to-use and accurate power integrity analysis, as well as newfunctionality to analyze advanced interconnect methods likeDDR2/3.