Mentor Graphics Moves BridgePoint UML Editor to Open Source Domain
17 4월 2012 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ:MENT) announced its intention to
place the front-end UML editor of its powerful BridgePoint™ xtUML
environment into the open source domain. This action is intended to
provide the system design community with broader access to
comprehensive UML editing capabilities, encouraging advancement to
powerful executable and translatable model-driven development.
UML entry provides a starting point for model-driven flows,
which dramatically improve a company’s ability to capture design
intent, validate requirements, communicate and manage data across
disciplines and organizational boundaries, reuse intellectual
property, and even generate downstream implementations.
BridgePoint is an advanced, proven, xtUML-based environment
built upon the Eclipse IDE platform. The term xtUML indicates
extensions to the standard UML, which enables execution of the UML
model to verify its behavior along with translation of the UML into
downstream implementation languages such as C, C++, SystemC and
others, while supporting interface standards like IP-XACT and
AUTOSAR. BridgePoint is comprised of a UML editor, a verifier
(providing simulated execution capability), and a set of model
compilers (providing translation). Mentor Graphics is moving the
UML editor portion into the open source domain, providing the
industry with a free entry point towards full model-driven
development flows that can be augmented with user-developed model
compilers. The BridgePoint product’s verifier and the current
portfolio of commercial grade model compilers, which will plug into
the open source UML editor, will remain Mentor Graphics
products.
The Mentor Graphics® BridgePoint development team will
participate in the open source community, contributing features and
streamlining executable UML knowledge transfer. The BridgePoint
software is actually used to develop the various components that
make up the BridgePoint product recommended for customer use.
Therefore, the code being placed into the open source domain
includes the xtUML meta-model, the xtUML model of BridgePoint, and
the Java source that interfaces with the Eclipse environment.
Stephen Mellor, originator of the modeling methodology that
underlies BridgePoint xtUML, welcomed this new initiative, saying,
“Open source has already reduced barriers to entry for modeling
tools. Making BridgePoint open source now extends this benefit to
users of executable and translatable UML, while allowing them to
continue to gain from the extensive expertise captured by MGC's
model compilers and verification tools.”
“The availability of BridgePoint as an open source editor will
enable the industry’s movement from static UML diagrams and
paper-based processes to executable model-driven flows,” said Serge
Leef, vice president and general manager, System Level Engineering
Division, Mentor Graphics. “Over time, we expect the BridgePoint
open source UML editor to become the de facto standard for UML
trainers and educators.”
“There is growing interest in executable and translatable UML in
our community, and this open source move is very timely for wider
use in projects needing a high precision design, as well as an
efficient code generation solution,” commented Takao Futagami, NPO
SESSAME director.
Open source contributors will accelerate the improvement of the
BridgePoint editor in novel directions. Users will be able to
customize the editor to best support their specific modeling
process. Companies will benefit from free access to models for
their many users who need to view and edit them.
The BridgePoint technology will be discussed at the Mentor
Graphics booth #1530 during the Design Automation Conference (DAC
2012), being held in San Francisco from June 3-7, 2012.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation 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 electronic, semiconductor and systems companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last
fiscal year of about $1,015 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 BridgePoint is a
trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or
product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their
respective owners.)
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