Accelerated Technology Announces USB On-The-Go Support Now Available for Embedded Developers Using the Nucleus RTOS
MOBILE, Ala.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 30, 2004—
Accelerated Technology(R), a Mentor Graphics division
(Nasdaq:MENT), today announced USB On-The-Go (OTG) support for the
Nucleus(R) Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). Developers using the
Nucleus USB OTG software can now build products that communicate with
each other via Universal Serial Bus (USB) without requiring a PC
connection. For example, a digital camera can directly connect to a
personal digital assistant (PDA), or a mobile phone can connect to
another mobile phone, as long as each device is USB OTG-compatible.
USB OTG grew from the increasing need for portable devices to be
able to communicate directly with each other as the culture of
technology moves away from a PC-centric world. One of the important
features of USB OTG is that the standard does not require a host PC in
order for the devices to communicate with each other. USB OTG devices,
known as dual-role peripherals, can act as limited hosts or
peripherals, as well as connect to a host PC. For example, acting as a
host device, a digital camera can print photos directly to a printer.
Acting as a peripheral device, the camera can download photos to a PC.
The Nucleus USB OTG software enables a wide variety of devices to
communicate and share data directly, removing the PC as an
intermediate device.
The Nucleus USB OTG software adheres to the USB OTG specification,
which is a supplement to the USB 2.0 specification. It also implements
the protocols required to support an OTG dual-role device for role
switching and session negotiation.
The Nucleus USB OTG software consists of three components: a USB
OTG stack, USB OTG class driver and USB OTG controller driver. The
Nucleus USB OTG component is complete, fast, small and portable just
like all the Nucleus USB family of products. It takes advantage of the
Nucleus software services and runs on any system supported by the
Nucleus PLUS and the Nucleus microiPLUS kernels. Drivers are available
for additional Nucleus software components including the Nucleus NET
TCP/IP protocol stack, the Nucleus FILE file management software and
the Nucleus GRAFIX portable graphics package. On the hardware side,
the Nucleus USB OTG software provides the controller driver for the
Mentor Graphics Inventra full-speed (12Mps) and high-speed (480Mps)
USB OTG hardware controllers.
"The Nucleus USB OTG software and Inventra hardware IP provide a
synergistic embedded development combination that is difficult to
beat," said Robert Day, director of marketing, Embedded Systems
Division, Mentor Graphics. "With it, customers can now take advantage
of ready to use, out-of-the-box USB OTG support to accelerate their
time to market for embedded USB OTG designs and differentiate their
products in the competitive and rapidly growing portable devices
market."
Availability and Pricing
The Nucleus embedded software is licensed with source code and
without royalty fees. Available now, licenses for the Nucleus USB OTG
stack start at U.S. $19,995 and licenses for the Nucleus USB OTG class
drivers begin at U.S. $4,995. 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 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
