ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ARC INDUSTRY
FORUM -- Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced
the embedded systems industry's broadest portfolio for industrial
automation. In partnership with key industry vendors, Mentor
Graphics now offers a solution differentiated from other
marketplace products by its unique multi-platform approach and
robust security architecture. Mentor Graphics® new Mentor® Embedded
multi-platform solution enables embedded product developers to
create more feature-rich, power-efficient, safe and secure systems.
It encompasses a breadth of runtime platform options, customized
development tools, system partitioning, power management, safety
certification and system characterization tools, plus
market-leading multicore support, making this the broadest solution
in the industry.
The Mentor Embedded industrial automation solution includes:
- The Nucleus® real-time operating system (RTOS) with advanced
power management and optional IEC 61508 safety certification and
Wurldtech Achilles communications certification
- The Mentor Embedded Linux® platform with integrated industrial
protocols, SELinux mandatory access control support, and Sourcery™
CodeBench Professional toolsuite
- Type-1 hypervisor technology for partitioning and
separation
- Advanced Sourcery Analyzer tool for advanced debug and system
characterization
- Qt™ graphics optimized for embedded automation controller user
interface (UI) applications
- Customized open source toolchains to optimize hardware
components, code footprint, and application performance
The Mentor Embedded solution provides developers with integrated
and tested capabilities and features that enable equipment
manufacturers to focus on strategic competitive differentiation
across the spectrum of industrial devices (industrial controllers,
process automation controllers, PLCs, data acquisition devices, and
motor driver controllers, along with motion, vision, and SCADA
systems). This enables convergence of the product features
and capabilities necessary to increase profitability by minimizing
footprint (floor space), reducing power usage (electricity costs),
and decreasing downtime (security vulnerabilities).
"Our goal is to provide our process-driven customers with three
of the most important things they need to secure their futures:
operational integrity, which keeps their plants up and running;
operational insight, which provides the knowledge and applications
they need to run their plants safely and profitably; and
future-proof technology, which provides the agility they need to
respond quickly to changing conditions and new business
opportunities," said Andrew Kling,
Director of Technology and Process at Schneider Electric. "As a
trusted, valuable partner, Mentor helps us achieve this goal. With
Nucleus RTOS, our unique Foxboro Evo process automation system
helps customers reduce unplanned downtime and improves productivity
and decision making for plant managers, engineers and operators
alike. Mentor technology also facilitates our R&D processes,
which helps us bring innovative new offerings to the market as
quickly and efficiently as possible too. We look forward to
continuing to work with them to deliver additional value for our
customers."
The solution offers support for advanced homogeneous and
heterogeneous multicore System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures
integrated with runtime operating platforms and tools to allow
manufacturers to reuse existing IP (legacy applications) while
taking advantage of leading-edge, power-efficient multicore
devices. The key industrial automation partners include Icon Labs
for critical security management components that enable end-to-end
security, and Softing AG who provides a breadth of industrial
connectivity options including OPC-UA, Ethernet/IP™, and
more.
"Securing critical infrastructure has been a top priority for
many businesses and governments, and now with the rapid growth of
the Internet of Things (IoT), the challenges will increase
exponentially," stated Alan Grau,
founder and CEO of Icon Labs. "We have worked closely with Mentor
Graphics to move past the legacy concept of securing the embedded
device perimeter, to protecting the embedded device itself. This
device protection, data protection, and advanced management and
reporting capabilities provide the necessary level of protection
from both external and internal threats."
The Mentor Embedded industrial automation solution was developed
to address the growing challenges of building, extending, and
maintaining embedded hardware and software for a variety of
industrial automation products. It provides a new way to integrate
legacy applications, new technologies, comprehensive security
architecture, and the latest multicore processors on the same
industrial device.
"Mentor Graphics continually advances its market-leading
embedded software technologies powered by Freescale® devices such
as i.MX applications processors and QorIQ® multicore processors
based on Layerscape™ architecture, to create a complete ecosystem
to ease embedded systems development," stated Alex Dopplinger, industrial business development
manager, Freescale. "Mentor's unique and comprehensive security
framework helps manage the complexities of multicore heterogeneous
systems needed for today's secure industrial automation
applications."
Product Availability and Additional Information
The
Mentor Embedded industrial automation solution will be featured at
the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando,
Florida, February 9-12, 2015.
For additional product information, visit the product website:
http://go.mentor.com/industrial
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 is a trademark 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.
Qt is a registered trade mark of Digia Plc and/or its
subsidiaries
For more information, please contact:
Larry Toda
Mentor Graphics
503.685.1664
larry_toda@mentor.com
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