Accelerated Technology's Next-Generation Nucleus BridgePoint Tool Suite Brings UML-based Development to Eclipse Platform
SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 8, 2005—
Accelerated Technology(R), a Mentor Graphics division
(Nasdaq:MENT), today announced version 7.0 of its Nucleus(R)
BridgePoint(R) UML suite based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
specification, and the open Eclipse platform -- the embedded
industry's emerging standard. With the advanced Nucleus BridgePoint
product, developers can now more easily model, verify, compile and
debug their software applications and ensure that specification and
correct functionality have been met.
"Accelerated Technology continues to be the only embedded software
provider offering a full design flow of products ranging from a
high-level design tool to a complete embedded software development
suite and real-time operating system (RTOS)," said Robert Day,
director of marketing for Accelerated Technology. "The new features of
the Nucleus BridgePoint software, tightly integrated with the powerful
Eclipse-based Nucleus EDGE development environment, offer a very
powerful yet easy-to-useUML environment for embedded developers. This
now allows developers of any type of embedded system to benefit from
model-based design productivity gains."
The Nucleus BridgePoint UML suite uses xtUML, an executable and
translatable version of UML. This allows developers to easily write
and translate verified models into either embedded C or C++ code
without round-trip engineering, which is used to synchronize software
code and models.
Comprising years of technology development, the Nucleus
BridgePoint environment is a suite of plug-ins to the Eclipse
platform. The tightly integrated Nucleus BridgePoint environment and
the Nucleus EDGE software give developers a single environment in
which to build their embedded application, from design to deployment.
It also offers total control over the quality and stability of their
application, full control of release cycles, shorter learning curves
and a common platform with desktop tools.
Version 7.0 of the Nucleus BridgePoint software provides new
features that significantly improve the productivity of a UML-based
embedded design. A model comparison feature that shows developers the
differences between two versions of a model helps significantly
improve review processes, increase the quality of the resulting code,
and reduce the overall effort required to enhance and maintain
existing models. The Nucleus BridgePoint product also integrates with
the CVS version-control and configuration-management facility allowing
developers to version-control their models with the popular tool.
Using the Eclipse platform as a platform also allows this
functionality with other version management programs.
Developers can also benefit from the Object Action Language (OAL)
syntax-aware activity editor in the Nucleus BridgePoint product. This
feature provides colored highlighting of OAL keywords, real-time
parsing, and detection of syntax errors as well as semantic
inconsistencies in the activities expressed in OAL.
An integrated translation environment allows developers to convert
UML models into 100 percent complete and optimized code with a simple
push of a button. The Eclipse framework with the integrated Nucleus
EDGE environment (where the UML models are built and the resulting
code is compiled, linked and debugged) facilitates this powerful
feature, transparently.
The Nucleus BridgePoint tool also includes an updated version of
the MC-3020 Model Compiler that generates ANSI C from UML models.
Version 4.0 of the MC-3020 compiler now provides support for
persistent data using any non-volatile storage medium and full
multi-tasking support for the Accelerated Technology Nucleus PLUS
kernel. The Nucleus BridgePoint Model Debugger tool then provides
complete model-level debugging capabilities for the generated source
code including the ability to set class-based and instance-based
breakpoints on model-level constructs like the generation of an event,
access of an attribute or entry to a state.
Availability
Available now, licenses for version 7.0 of the Nucleus BridgePoint
software begin at U.S. $12,500. 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
$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, 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
Sonia Harrison, 503-685-1165
sonia_harrison@mentor.com
