Accelerated Technology's Nucleus EDGE Embedded Development Environment Supports Eclipse 3.0 Platform
MOBILE, Ala.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 1, 2005—
Accelerated Technology(R), a Mentor Graphics division
(Nasdaq:MENT), today announced its Nucleus(R) EDGE software
development environment now supports Eclipse version 3.0, the latest
version of the open framework. The Nucleus EDGE software provides
developers with a more advanced embedded tool suite that allows them
to build, compile, debug and deploy embedded applications more quickly
and easily.
The Nucleus EDGE software takes advantage of various new
productivity enhancements that the Eclipse 3.0 platform offers. Using
the Nucleus EDGE software on Eclipse 3.0, developers can benefit from
a new, more intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) that provides
tutorials and demos to guide them through the development process.
"Cheat sheets" are available to help users easily step through new
features and plug-ins to the Eclipse framework. New multithreaded
enhancements to Eclipse also allow the Nucleus EDGE user interface
(UI) to be more responsive, permitting users to interact with the GUI
while the Nucleus EDGE software is busy running a background task.
This is particularly useful when debugging large applications with
multiple cores, as engineers typically focus on different parts of
their application, concurrently.
"The move to support Eclipse version 3.0 was a remarkably painless
exercise for us, but a very important one," said Robert Day, director
of marketing, Accelerated Technology Division, Mentor Graphics.
"Providing customers with proven embedded tools on the most current,
feature-rich, development framework gives them a more tightly
integrated, user-friendly environment in which to quickly develop
applications."
"As Eclipse continues to gain traction in the embedded world, it
is good to see embedded developers taking advantage of new Eclipse
features," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse
Foundation. "We will be working closely with Accelerated Technology
and other embedded companies to make sure that features desired by the
embedded community get brought into the Eclipse standard offering."
Comprising years of technology development, the Nucleus EDGE
environment provides a suite of plug-ins to Eclipse, the rapidly
emerging standard for the embedded systems industry. The Nucleus EDGE
environment gives embedded developers tighter tool integration, total
control over the quality and stability of their applications, full
control of release cycles, shorter learning curves and a common
platform with desktop tools.
The Nucleus EDGE software is available for the ARM7, ARM9 and
XScale processor cores on Windows. The Nucleus EDGE software supports
the ARM GNU, RedHat GNU and ARM RealView C and C++ compilers. MinGW, a
compiler for Windows, is also provided for use with the host-based
debugging feature, giving users basic application prototyping
capabilities on Windows.
Pricing and Availability
Licenses for the complete Nucleus EDGE development suite begin at
U.S. $3,000 per seat. 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 over
$700 million and employs approximately 3,850 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 e-mail 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
Sonia Harrison, 503-685-1165
sonia_harrison@mentor.com
