Accelerated Technology's Nucleus EDGE Embedded Development Environment Supports MIPS Architecture
MOBILE, Ala.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 19, 2005—
Accelerated Technology, a Mentor Graphics division
(Nasdaq:MENT), today announced that its Eclipse-powered Nucleus(R)
EDGE software development environment is now available for the
MIPS32(R) and MIPS64(R) architectures from MIPS Technologies. With the
Nucleus software, developers using the 4K(R), 4KE(TM), 5K(R) and
24K(R) core families for digital entertainment and multimedia
applications have a tightly integrated development environment in
which to more quickly and easily build products to better meet market
demand.
"Our customers need to accelerate their time to market in order to
excel in the highly competitive digital consumer space," said Russ
Bell, vice president of marketing for MIPS Technologies. "Leveraging
the industry-leading MIPS architecture and the Nucleus EDGE software
environment allows designers to meet and exceed their development
objectives and deliver superior products."
"This new development environment consists of MIPS Technologies
optimized software, including SDE compiler and MIPSsim(TM) instruction
set simulator, integrated into the industry-standard Eclipse
platform," said Robert Day, director of marketing, Accelerated
Technology Division, Mentor Graphics. "Combined with our Nucleus EDGE
software, developers of MIPS-Based SoCs now get the most complete
embedded tool chain, ranging from high-level UML design tools, down to
advanced debugging and profiling tools, all working seamlessly
together under the Eclipse framework."
The Eclipse-based Nucleus EDGE software includes an intuitive
graphical user interface (GUI) that provides tutorials and demos to
guide users through the development process. The user interface (UI)
is also more responsive, permitting users to interact with the GUI
while the Nucleus EDGE software is busy running background tasks such
as building the user application. This is particularly useful when
debugging large applications with multiple cores, as engineers
typically focus on different parts of their application, concurrently.
The Nucleus EDGE software contains an advanced project manager,
complete with an editor and builder that helps users automate their
build process. Developers can now set up one or more build
environments by specifying the compiler and build options, giving
total control over multiple projects and allowing for quick and easy
revisions of their embedded systems. This advanced build system is
fully integrated with the MIPS SDE compiler, and allows other command
line-based tools to be plugged in as well.
Adhering to the Eclipse platform debug paradigm, and hence
offering ultimate openness, the Nucleus debugger provides developers
with a number of debugging environments. For example, using host-based
debugging, software developers can experiment by running an
application on the host machine before the final hardware is available
or even decided upon. This allows the software developer to start
coding earlier in the development cycle. Utilizing the MIPSsim
instruction set simulator and MDI based on-chip debugging via JTAG
then allows users to run their "real" optimized embedded code from the
same environment.
The Nucleus debugger also provides all the basic execution and
memory control, plus advanced debugging features such as run-mode
debug and kernel awareness when using a real-time operating system
(RTOS). It also provides real-time trace, profiling, performance
analysis, and code coverage for doing sophisticated code analysis.
Additionally, the Nucleus debugger offers embedded developers true
multi-core debugging, allowing them to fully debug their complete
embedded system, whether small or complex.
For connectivity to MIPS Technologies' target markets, the Nucleus
EDGE software supports the Meta Debug Interface (MDI) protocol, which
allows additional support for the FS2 System Navigator and the MIPSsim
Instruction Set Simulator (ISS), as well as the Macraigor Systems OCD
family of EJTAG probes.
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 division of Mentor Graphics Corporation,
is located in Mobile, Alabama, and has engineering sites, sales
offices and distributors worldwide. As a leading provider of
royalty-free, embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) software,
Accelerated Technology helps developers accelerate product
time-to-market in a wide range of embedded device applications. Its
comprehensive Nucleus RTOS includes a high-level design UML suite,
graphical prototyping tools, kernels, middleware and Eclipse-based
development tools. 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.
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