Mentor Graphics Announces Commercial Linux Platform for Freescale Semiconductor's Processors Based on Power Architecture Technol
22 6월 2010 - 8:01PM
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FREESCALE TECHNOLOGY FORUM -- Mentor Graphics
Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced its commercial Mentor
Embedded™ Linux® platform supporting Freescale Semiconductor,
resulting from the recent strategic alliance signed between
Freescale and Mentor for embedded Linux technology. The platform,
built upon shared Freescale and Mentor technology, provides
comprehensive open source Linux software and tools, as well as
maintenance and support. This provides a unified workflow
methodology, enabling customers to create innovative and customized
applications for Freescale's QorIQ and PowerQUICC processors --
with greater productivity and reduced risk.
The Mentor Embedded Linux platform currently supports the QorIQ
P4080 and P2020 multicore processors and PowerQUICC 8572 and 8377
communication processors, with planned support for Freescale's
newly announced low-power QorIQ P3041processor and the new
high-performance 64-bit e5500 platform, including the QorIQ P5020
dual-core and P5010 single core processors. The Mentor Embedded
Linux platform will be compatible with Freescale's 32-bit and
64-bit processors.
The Mentor Embedded Linux platform is a fully integrated,
vendor-independent solution to help project teams move seamlessly
from prototyping on reference hardware to custom-designed hardware
running on commercial Linux and advanced development tools. The
Mentor Embedded Linux platform also helps Freescale customers
develop more reliable applications in a shorter amount of time.
"Mentor Graphics is our strategic Linux partner based on their
exceptional embedded technologies and expertise in open source,"
said Brett Butler, vice president and general manager of
Freescale's Networking Processor Division. "The Mentor Embedded
Linux platform for our family of QorIQ multicore and PowerQUICC
communications processors provides our joint customers with a
seamless solution that takes them from product evaluation to
prototyping and ultimately to high volume production, helping to
further the development of today's advanced and innovative
products."
"The Mentor Embedded Linux commercial platform is a major
milestone for Mentor Graphics. Our strategic collaboration with
Freescale has created a unified engineering methodology that
provides great value to our mutual customers," stated Glenn Perry,
general manager of Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division. "Our
unified workflow methodology will help our customers develop better
products under aggressive time-to-market schedules."
Key Technologies Enable Shorter Time to
High-volume Production The main components of the Mentor
Embedded Linux platform include Mentor Embedded™ System Builder and
Mentor Embedded™ EDGE™ technologies. System Builder is a powerful
and flexible build engine providing the system developer with an
easy "out-of-the-box" experience while providing virtually any type
of platform customization. The EDGE technology is built upon the
Eclipse platform, providing a familiar user interface enhanced by
Mentor-created plug-ins. When coupled with Mentor's debug engine
and target agent, it provides a platform for a compelling
multicore, multi-OS debug experience for bare metal, kernel, device
drivers and applications all through a single connection.
The Mentor Embedded Linux platform also delivers tested and
proven commercial quality tool chains, precompiled "runtime"
binaries, maintenance, and support. The System Builder technology
produces an Application Developer Kit (ADK), which can be used by
application developers either integrated with EDGE IDE or directly
from the command line.
Key highlights of the Mentor/Freescale alliance are the common
work-flow, toolchains, and kernel versions provided to the
prospective embedded Linux developer. Silicon evaluation is
typically performed using the semiconductor-supplied Linux
distribution with generally no support for this Linux distribution.
As momentum builds in a project's lifecycle, it becomes much more
difficult to uproot developers who have gained familiarity with a
particular build methodology. Conversely, the Mentor Embedded Linux
platform provides a common build methodology and allows the
development team to move to a commercially supported, full-featured
distribution with minimal impact to the overall project. This
compelling competitive advantage, provided by the Mentor Embedded
Linux platform, allows customers to get products to market
faster.
Maintenance and Support Address Customer
Development Needs Maintenance and support are crucial to
customers, so the Mentor Embedded Linux product includes
comprehensive support for development tools and open source
technologies. This includes access to the latest, stable and
compatible open source technology, with updates on new cores,
component versions, and defect resolutions twice per year.
Consulting services are also provided to help customers address
unique product platform needs beyond standard support questions and
reference configuration.
Mentor Embedded Linux Product Availability
The Mentor Embedded Linux platform for Freescale processors will
ship in July 2010. For more information, call 1-800-547-3000, or
visit the company website at: www.mentor.com/go/linux.
The Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division comprises the
Mentor Embedded family of products and services, including embedded
software intellectual property (IP), tools, and consulting services
to help embedded developers and silicon partners optimize their
products for design and cost efficiency. More information on Mentor
Embedded products and services can be found at the website:
www.mentor.com/embedded.
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. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman
Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics is a registered trademark and Mentor Embedded
and EDGE are trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other
company or product names are the registered trademarks or
trademarks of their respective owner.)
(The registered trademark Linux® is used pursuant to a
sublicense from LMI, the exclusive licensee of Linus Torvalds,
owner of the mark on a world-wide basis).
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For more information, please contact: Larry Toda Mentor Graphics
503.685.1664 larry_toda@mentor.com Sonia Harrison Mentor Graphics
503.685.1165 sonia_harrison@mentor.com
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