Accelerated Technology's New Nucleus Profiler Provides for Graphical Analysis of Embedded Applications
SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 8, 2005—
Accelerated Technology(R), a Mentor Graphics division
(Nasdaq:MENT), today announced availability of the Nucleus(R) Profiler
software, giving developers the ability to closely analyze the
behavior of their embedded systems. Designed using the Eclipse
framework, the Nucleus Profiler software is closely integrated with
the Nucleus EDGE development environment, offering developers an
advanced build, debug and analysis solution to create embedded
applications more quickly and easily.
A standard debugger with kernel awareness is a good tool for
understanding an embedded system. However, this particular view of an
operating system (OS) only shows the system's current state and does
not give users the ability to see the behavior of the system over
time. The Nucleus Profiler software allows developers to see problems
that are not revealed by a standard debugger. For example, a user can
view the interactions of tasks within the system over a desired time
period, making it easier to spot problems such as where a task is
monopolizing the processor and preventing other critical tasks from
executing.
The Nucleus Profiler software captures and stores kernel as well
as application-specific data that users decide to collect. This allows
developers to analyze timing issues, logic flaws, memory problems and
many other performance issues that they would otherwise be unable to
monitor. Graphical presentation of events over time, CPU utilization
by task, memory usage information, deterministic data collection on
the target and exporting of the data in different formats are a few of
the features found in the Nucleus Profiler software.
"Only a tool such as the Nucleus Profiler software that tracks
events and flow of execution in a system over time can provide insight
into system issues like priority inversion, memory leaks, CPU usage
and other complex behavioral problems faced by real-time developers,"
said Robert Day, director of marketing for Accelerated Technology, a
Division of Mentor Graphics. "Add the close integration with other
tools using the Eclipse framework and the embedded developer now has
an enterprise quality solution."
Pricing and Availability
Licenses for the Nucleus Profiler software begin at U.S. $1,000
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
Sonia Harrison, 503-685-1165
sonia_harrison@mentor.com
