Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the FloEFD™ [Engineering Fluid Dynamics] v9.0 product suite from the company’s Mechanical Analysis Division (formerly known as Flomerics), with functionality specifically targeted for simulation and analysis of electronics cooling applications. As a “CAD-Embedded” application, the FloEFD suite tightly integrates with all popular MCAD design solutions to enable mechanical designers to easily analyze sophisticated electronic products including those with complex geometries. The FloEFD suite now complements Mentor’s FloTHERM® product line to cover analysis by both the mechanical designer as well as the thermal analysis specialist. With FloEFD, the simulation models are easily and directly generated from the design database while in the MCAD environment, thus enabling a seamless, streamlined design flow for optimum designer productivity and accuracy. Moreover, with analysis capabilities readily available to the designer, more simulations will result in higher product reliability and fewer prototypes/manufacturing re-spins. “This new generation of CAD-embedded tools saves us money and time by enabling design engineers to optimize the design from a thermal standpoint early in the design process,” stated James Young, Azonix Corporation design engineer. “Mentor's FloEFD enables simulation results to be incorporated into the design process by the right person, in the right place, at the right time. The result is that we get the design right the first time, only have to make one prototype versus as many as twelve, and avoid expensive design changes in the late stages of the development process.” “With the addition of FloEFD to our family of electronics cooling simulation tools, we now offer a complete solution for the thermal analysis of complex electronic products” stated Roland Feldhinkel, product line director for the Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division. “Based on our powerful EFD analysis engine, FloEFD is able to quickly and accurately analyze thermal effects in designs including those with complex geometries and curved surfaces. And, by embedding this functionality directly into the MCAD environment, we have improved the productivity of the designer, made easy-to-use analysis available to the entire design team, and enabled our customers to improve the reliability of their products by managing thermal effects.”