WILSONVILLE, Ore., Feb. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor
Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the
availability of new expanded processor support from the Mentor®
Embedded Linux® development platform, including Yocto 2.0-based
development tools, for the third generation AMD Embedded G-Series
system-on-chip (SoC). The AMD Embedded G-Series Family of SoC
devices with AMD Radeon R7 Graphics (codenamed: "Brown Falcon")
support heterogeneous system architectures for advanced processing
performance, power efficiency and multimedia immersion. Mentor
Graphics support enables efficient heterogeneous multicore
development, allowing embedded developers to take full advantage of
AMD processors for feature-rich applications targeting markets such
as digital gaming, point-of-sale (POS), and electronic signage and
displays.
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AMD embedded customers can download the updated Mentor Embedded
Linux Lite and CodeBench Lite tools to quickly build, from source,
a customized Linux-based platform based on technology from the
latest 2.0 release of the Yocto Project. Using the Mentor Embedded
Sourcery™ CodeBench and award-winning Sourcery Analyzer
technologies, embedded C/C+ developers can gain valuable insights
into system behavior and timing through a visual debugging
framework that identifies functional, timing, and performance
bottlenecks.
"With this announcement, AMD embedded customers now have even
more choices available for their Linux development, from the
no-cost Mentor Embedded Linux Lite to the robust
commercially-supported Mentor Embedded Linux," stated Scott Aylor, corporate vice president and
general manager, AMD Enterprise Solutions. "Free access to Mentor's
embedded development software will be of great value to our AMD
embedded customers who require a scalable global supplier to meet
the needs of their embedded system design challenges."
Embedded developers can now perform evaluation, prototyping, and
development by downloading freely available Mentor Embedded Linux
Lite and Sourcery CodeBench Lite solutions to support these latest
AMD embedded processors today. Additionally, developers can
continue to seamlessly migrate to these new commercial versions of
Mentor Embedded Linux with the Sourcery CodeBench tool. The
combination of AMD embedded processors and the Mentor Embedded
Linux product delivers a powerful hardware/software platform for
highly-productive embedded development.
The Mentor Embedded Linux runtime and development tools also
support the AMD Embedded R-Series SoC (previously codenamed
"Merlin Falcon"), previous
generation G-Series processors (previously codenamed: "Steppe
Eagle" and "Crowned Eagle"), and the AMD Embedded R-Series APU
(previously codenamed: "Bald Eagle").
Efficient Embedded Multimedia Development
Support for developing and debugging Qt® -based user interfaces
(UI) using Qt Creator has been added to the latest commercial
Mentor Embedded Linux platform, including an upgrade to the
integrated, accelerated Qt 5.5 graphics framework. In addition to
the Qt library modules, developers can make use of unique
system-level trace and analysis visualization to easily optimize UI
performance metrics, such as frame rate, to deliver highly
responsive graphics-intensive applications.
Additional features and capabilities in the Mentor Embedded
Linux Commercial Platform for AMD Embedded G-Series and R-Series
processors include:
- Accelerated Qt 5.5 graphics
- Accelerated GStreamer 1.0 Multimedia stack
- SELinux, PREEMPT_RT, and IEEE-1588 Precision Timing
Protocol
- Sourcery CodeBench Eclipse-based IDE for application
development, debug, and analysis
- Graphical user interface (GUI) development and debug using Qt
Creator
- Customization services
- Technical support
"Mentor and AMD continually invest in developing new and
exciting products for their mutual customers, such as dynamic user
interfaces and graphics built on the latest AMD R-series and
G-series processors," said Scot
Morrison, general manager, platform business unit, Mentor
Graphics Embedded Systems Division. "Our goal is to mitigate the
risks of embedded Linux and UI development with greater user
productivity by means of our integrated solution."
Product Availability
The Mentor Embedded Linux Lite Platform is available now at no
charge to AMD embedded customers. The Mentor Embedded Linux
Commercial product is also available for a fee. For
additional product information, visit:
https://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/partners/amd.
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 systems, developers can take advantage of the
small-foot-print and low-power-capable Nucleus RTOS. For more
information, visit www.mentor.com/embedded.
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 for the fiscal
year ending January 31, 2015, of
approximately $1.2 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:
Larry Toda
(503) 685-1664
Larry_Toda@mentor.com
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