“Linux last week gained strength in the EDA industry as Mentor
Graphics Corp. announced that it is porting its widely used Calibre
IC physical-verification program to the open-source operating
system.”
“The move is Mentor’s first direct support of Linux, and the
company is considering other ports, said Joe Sawicki, Calibre
marketing manager. Mentor opted for Linux primarily to support
Calibre’s multithreaded parallelism, Sawicki said.
Linux makes it easy to deliver multithreading technology on the
PC platform,’ Sawicki said. ‘Because Linux uses Posix-compliant
threads-unlike NT-the process of porting Calibre to Linux was
really an easy way to expand the application of PC hardware by our
users.”