> May 7, 2009 -- Mentor Graphics will acquire LogicVision for an aggregate
> consideration of approximately $13 million dollars.  The transaction has
> been structured as a stock-for-stock reverse triangular merger ... with
> LogicVision surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Mentor.


There's massive overlap between the LogicVision and Mentor product lines:

  - Both companies sell extensive memory test and repair tools; for
    general memory chips and for embedded memories.

  - Both companies sell Logic BIST tools.

  - Both companies sell test compression tools.

  - Both companies sell yield analysis tools.

  - Mentor sells DFTAdvisor for scan insertion, while LogicVision sells
    ScanBurst for an improved type of proprietary scan insertion.

  - Both companies sell boundry scan tools.

There are only difference I can find between MENT and LGVN is that Mentor
sells its own ATPG tool that LogicVision also resells.

The press release gives the impression that LogicVision will still be around
because it'll be a "wholly owned subsidiary of Mentor".  Or was this just a
transaction on paper?

From what I can figure, this merger gives Mentor the lock on Logic BIST
(because SNPS, CDNS, LAVA don't do LBIST) plus it reiterates that digital
test is still very much a MENT vs. SNPS battle.

    - John Cooley
      DeepChip.com                               Holliston, MA