Accelerated Technology's Nucleus Products Offer Complete Support for Altera's Nios II Processors
BOSTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 12, 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 Nios(R)
II family of embedded processors from Altera Corporation. The Nucleus
EDGE IDE and the Nucleus RTOS software give field programmable gate
array (FPGA) users a comprehensive development environment in which to
configure software to better manage and build multi-core applications
such as wireless broadband and Wi-Fi, cellular infrastructure, wire
line, industrial control, automotive and medical.
The Nucleus software support for the Nios II processor includes
the ability to automatically configure the Nucleus Real-Time Operating
System (RTOS) software using Altera's Hardware Abstraction Layer
(HAL). As a result the Nucleus RTOS software can be adjusted to any
hardware changes that the developer might make using Altera's SOPC
Builder system-level development tool. This is especially valuable
during the earlier design phases when hardware may change frequently.
Nios II processor developers can then take their automatically
configured source code and create projects in the Nucleus EDGE
environment to build and debug their products within a matter of
minutes. Automatic configuration of the Nucleus RTOS software,
combined with the Nucleus EDGE software support for Nios II, further
reduces the overall development cycle and time to market with features
such as multi-core, multi-process debug capabilities, kernel
awareness, hardware breakpoints, powerful scripting language support
and more. The close link between the hardware and software builds
offers extended configurability options while a complete development
environment provides consistency, efficiency and reliability across
all Nios II FPGA-based designs.
"Ease of use and flexibility are the key reasons Nios II has been
adopted by more than twenty thousand embedded designers worldwide,"
said Chris Balough, Altera's director of software and Nios(R)
marketing. "The Nucleus EDGE environment clearly complements these
core Nios II advantages."
The Nucleus EDGE software consists of a seamlessly integrated IDE,
compiler, debugger and system profiler. FPGA developers can use this
all-inclusive environment to create embedded system products from
start to finish.
"The Nios II FPGA is becoming a widely used processor architecture
for Nucleus users," said Robert Day, director of marketing,
Accelerated Technology Division, Mentor Graphics. "The addition of the
Nucleus RTOS auto-configurability together with our premium Nucleus
EDGE development tools will help make Nios II-based embedded systems
development much easier."
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
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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 3,900 people worldwide.
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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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Mentor Graphics/Accelerated Technology
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