WILSONVILLE, Ore., Jan. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor Graphics
Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the availability of
Mentor® Embedded Virtual Prototype Kits (VPKs) in the Mentor
Graphics® Vista™ and Sourcery™ CodeBench Virtual Edition
products. This enables embedded developers to integrate, execute,
validate and optimize software on various platforms. This solution
is ideal for automotive in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), electronic
control unit (ECU) networks, medical and industrial, networking,
and military and aerospace product development.
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Software debug and analysis, particularly for multicore
heterogeneous systems, requires understanding complex hardware and
software interactions, which is challenging with physical boards
executions given the limited trace and control. Virtual prototyping
allows developers to run software on a large number of configurable
virtual prototypes to explore various configuration alternatives
and software execution threads. This is done without the need for
probes and complex board setup. Compared to executing software on
physical boards, virtual prototyping with the Vista product
introduces unique timing and profiling technologies, with deeper,
non-intrusive visibility and control of the entire system,
including timing-dependent behavior. The result: deterministic
execution and unlimited non-intrusive system-level profiling for
efficient hardware and software analysis. In addition, integrated
debugging with combined software and hardware view provides more
complete system information to developers.
"Virtual prototyping is an important methodology for validating
our software ahead of hardware availability and for tuning it for
best performance. It accelerates the development cycle across our
software and hardware teams and allows for higher productivity and
greater quality code once the hardware ships," said Amanda McGregor, Global i.MX 6 series Product
Manager for Freescale. "The deep 'white-box' visibility and
control is an important mechanism to uncover complex
hardware/software interaction, inject faults, analyze data
transfers, and identify bandwidth and resource utilization issues
that would have been hard or too late to find on the physical
hardware."
Virtual prototyping is ideal for software developers who need to
integrate systems and functionalities into a single device,
optimize software performance, and conduct software validation and
regression testing. Virtual prototypes can also integrate
seamlessly with RTL verification flows (e.g. UVM) and emulation to
maximize simulation speed and debug efficiency.
The Vista and Sourcery CodeBench Virtual Edition products now
support off-the-shelf, configurable virtual prototypes for the
following device families: Altera Arria-V, ARM® Versatile Express
for Cortex® A-9, Freescale® Semiconductor's i.MX 6, and Xilinx
Zynq.
Unmatched Integration and Software Analysis
The Vista
and Sourcery CodeBench Virtual Edition are integrated with Mentor
Graphics runtime platforms (Mentor Embedded Linux®, AUTOSAR,
Nucleus® RTOS). Other embedded software vendors lack the models and
platforms required for virtual prototyping efficiency. The
integrated development environment (IDE) in the Vista and CodeBench
Virtual Edition products include hardware and software views for
systems performance, visibility and analysis.
Additional features for the Vista and CodeBench Virtual Edition
products include:
- Graphical debugging and performance analysis tools that enable
a system-wide, synchronized perspective across operating systems
and application software functions.
- Non-intrusive HW/SW tracing supporting bare-metal and Linux
applications on multicore/multisystem configurations.
- Combined HW/SW analysis perspective to easily locate
correlation of critical evens in both regions.
- Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) cluster debugging with full
register views.
- Ease of integration and simulation control of virtual
prototypes within the CodeBench Virtual Edition environment.
"Our Vista and CodeBench Virtual Edition products are unmatched
in the industry, and can execute software on a full range of
platforms for system-wide performance visibility at the early
stages of product development," stated Guy
Moshe, general manager of the Design Creation Business Unit
within Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division. "Combining these
products with Mentor Embedded virtual prototype kits for
industry-leading hardware platforms can result in overall design
performance improvements and accelerated product delivery
schedules."
Product Availability and Information
The Mentor
Embedded Vista virtual prototype kits integrated into the Vista and
CodeBench Virtual Edition products are available now and can be
downloaded from Mentor SupportNet (https://supportnet.mentor.com)
in the Vista or the CodeBench Virtual Edition Product Downloads
sections. For additional product information on the Vista product
go to: http://www.mentor.com/esl/vista/virtual-prototyping/, and
for additional information on the CodeBench Virtual Edition product
go to:
http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/sourcery-tools/sourcery-codebench/virtual-edition.
About Mentor Embedded
The Mentor Graphics Embedded
Systems Division enables embedded development for a variety of
applications including automotive, industrial, smart energy,
medical devices, and consumer electronics. Embedded developers can
create systems with the latest processors and micro-controllers
with commercially supported and customizable Linux®-based solutions
including the industry-leading Sourcery CodeBench and Mentor
Embedded Linux products. For real-time control systems,
developers can take advantage of the small-foot-print and
low-power-capable Nucleus® RTOS. For more information, visit
www.mentor.com/embedded-software/.
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 in excess of $1.15 billion. Corporate headquarters are located
at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville,
Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor, and Nucleus are registered trademarks
and Sourcery and Vista are trademarks of Mentor Graphics
Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered
trademarks or trademarks of their respective owner.)
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For more information, please
contact:
Larry
Toda
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1664
larry_toda@mentor.com
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