Accelerated Technology Provides Application Development Platform For Embedded Developers Using UML
MOBILE, Ala.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 26, 2004—
Accelerated Technology(R), a Mentor Graphics division
(Nasdaq:MENT), announced that it has combined its widely used
executable and translatable UML (xtUML) modeling solution with its
extensive prototyping product to offer a new level of productivity to
the embedded software developer.
The Nucleus(R) BridgePoint(R) for UML modeling suite together with
the Nucleus SIMdx prototyping environment provides a complete
hardware-independent platform for developing embedded applications.
Software developers can now develop entire applications and verify
them graphically on the development host, dramatically increasing the
availability of the development platform.
The use of high-level modeling in the embedded world allows
embedded application developers to focus on the application rather
than the deployment hardware by raising the development abstraction
level above the traditional high-level languages. The use of xtUML
language specifically allows the modeled application to be executed
and hence verified at design time, and then translated into either C
or C++ to be compiled directly for an embedded system. By importing
this translated code into the Nucleus SIMdx prototyping environment, a
new level of system level prototyping is realized.
The Nucleus SIMdx prototyping environment gives the embedded
developer the opportunity to build a complete host-based simulated
version of their hardware platform, including peripherals, user
interface, software protocols and IO. This virtual hardware platform
can then run the modeled code against the simulated hardware, and give
the opportunity to do either complete system or specific
module/component testing without the requirement for hardware. Once
the models and the prototyping platform have been built, they can be
deployed to all the software developers as a reusable application
development platform. This reduces the dependence on prototype
hardware and aids global software development teams, who can all write
their software against the same platform.
"Accelerated Technology is unique in the embedded market, offering
a true modeling solution with other embedded technologies such as the
Nucleus SIMdx prototyping product. By combining these technologies,
the embedded developer can now verify his embedded system without
having access to hardware, shortening development time and getting
products to market earlier," said Robert Day, director of marketing,
Embedded Systems Division, Mentor Graphics.
Pricing and Availability
Available now, licenses for the Nucleus software start at U.S.
$12,495. For more information, please contact Accelerated Technology
at 800-468-6853 or info@acceleratedtechnology.com.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) 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 electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in
1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about
$675 million and employs approximately 3,800 people worldwide.
Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road,
Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777; Silicon Valley headquarters are
located at 1001 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California 95131-2314.
World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
Accelerated Technology, a Mentor Graphics division, is located in
Mobile, Alabama with sales offices and distributors worldwide. By
providing embedded systems developers with a focus on service,
well-documented source code and industry-leading non-royalty-based
Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) software including modeling
software, prototyping tools, kernels, middleware and development
tools. AT's suite of products shorten time-to-market and provide a
complete solution for engineers. For more information, please visit
www.acceleratedtechnology.com or email us at
info@acceleratedtechnology.com.
Mentor Graphics, Accelerated Technology, BridgePoint and Nucleus
are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other
company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks
of their respective owners.
Contact:
Mentor Graphics/Accelerated Technology
Jennifer Tanveer, 251-208-3400 ext 3415
jennifer_tanveer@mentor.com
or
Mentor Graphics
Suzanne Graham, 503-685-7789
suzanne_graham@mentor.com
