Mentor Graphics Unveils Android and Embedded Linux Strategy with Acquisition of Embedded Alley
30 7월 2009 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today unveiled its
Android and Linux strategy, including the acquisition of Embedded
Alley Solutions, Inc. (San Jose, CA), an innovative leader in
Android and Linux development systems. By combining Embedded
Alley’s Android and Linux products and services with the Mentor
Graphics Nucleus® real-time
operating system (RTOS), tools and middleware, Mentor can now
provide device manufacturers with all the software they need to
build their products, and work closely with them throughout their
product lifecycle to supply tools and services at every stage.
“Mentor’s strategy acknowledges two strong trends we see in
embedded device development today,” stated Glenn Perry, Mentor
Graphics Embedded Systems Division General Manager. “One is a huge
demand for Google’s Android platform in new, complex devices beyond
the mobile phones for which Android was originally developed. The
other is the growing use on multi-core processors of multiple
operating systems, usually Linux and an RTOS like Nucleus. Our
investment in Embedded Alley, and its products, open source
expertise, and services, will allow our customers to innovate and
build better products with power savings, performance optimization,
and reduced system cost and risk.”
Mentor’s Android, Linux, and Nucleus products and services
provide all the tools, runtime components and expertise required
for customers to get to production with innovative products. This
ecosystem for Android- and Linux-based devices is supported by
leading semiconductor partners, including ARM, Freescale, Marvell,
MIPS, RMI, and Texas Instruments (TI). In separate announcements
today, Mentor Graphics revealed support for the ARM Mali graphics
processing unit family, Freescale Power Architecture processors and
Marvell Sheeva MV78200 Dual-core Embedded Processors. Embedded
Alley was the first to market commercial Android tools and services
in May 2009, for the RMI Au1250 SoC and the MIPS architecture.
“The Embedded Alley team is excited to bring our vast experience
in open source development to Mentor Graphics,” said Pete Popov,
CEO of Embedded Alley. “This is a huge win for our customers, who
can now benefit from the combination of Embedded Alley's services
and development systems with Mentor's products, services and
outstanding support.”
“TI is pleased to learn that Mentor Graphics has acquired
Embedded Alley, allowing Mentor to provide additional value to our
customers developing with Android and/or Linux on our various TI
solutions, including our OMAP35x platform,” said Gerard Andrews,
OMAP35x product line manager, TI. “With the combined expertise from
Mentor Graphics and Embedded Alley, we’re confident that they will
be able to deliver innovative and even stronger multi-OS/multi-core
products that inspire new Linux- and Android-based designs. We’re
excited and look forward to seeing the synergy between these two
companies and their solutions that ultimately addresses our
customers’ key careabouts on an open software platform, community
participation and support.”
Perry continued, “As early developers in embedded Linux,
Embedded Alley is well-known in the open source community, both as
active participants in major projects such as OpenEmbedded,
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, and Linux kernel development,
and as leaders in commercial development based on open source
software. Their strong reputation follows them into the Android
commercial tool market, now placing Mentor Graphics at the
forefront of open source software in embedded devices.”
Embedded Alley gained a tremendous lead in Android solutions by
investing early and building on their deep Linux/open source
experience and technologies. As pioneers in the embedded Linux
community, the Embedded Alley team has been instrumental in
defining product offerings, shaping business models and building
market strategies for embedded systems. Their unique approach
to commercial open source products avoided “boxed” Linux
distributions, and gave developers more flexibility and immediate
access to the latest open source innovations.
For more information on the Mentor Graphics Android/Linux
development ecosystem for multi-OS and multi-core development,
visit the website at
http://www.mentor.com/products/embedded_software/android-linux-multicore/.
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 $800 million and employs approximately 4,425 people
worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman
Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics 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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