Mentor Graphics EDGE Tool Suite Supports Freescale ColdFire Microprocessors and Microcontrollers.WILSONVILLE, Ore. -- Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) today announced that its Eclipse-powered EDGE(TM) integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) and debugger now support the ColdFire(R) family of microprocessors and microcontrollers from Freescale Semiconductor Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004. Freescale focuses their integrated circuit products on the automotive, embedded and communications markets. . This gives developers designing with ColdFire an advanced, embedded tool suite for developing, compiling, debugging, and deploying embedded applications, quickly and cost-efficiently. "We are happy the EDGE tools now support the ColdFire family and excited that ColdFire developers will now be able to take advantage of this great development environment. By leveraging Eclipse, Mentor has created a powerful platform for building and debugging designs based on ColdFire. This is a nice step forward in the tools options for our customers," said Jeff Bock Noun 1. bock - a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring bock beer lager beer, lager - a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally , Consumer & Industrial Marketing Manager for Freescale's Microcontroller Division. The EDGE Tool Suite, based on the Eclipse platform, provides a set of plug-ins to Eclipse. The EDGE software includes an IDE, compiler, debugger and system profiler, all of which work together to allow developers to create products from concept to deployment. The EDGE software gives embedded developers tighter tool integration, total control over the quality and stability of their applications, full control of release cycles, shorter learning curves and a common platform with desktop tools. "The increase in customer demand for designs based on ColdFire products is a trend Mentor has watched closely. We have taken a major step forward in addressing these customers with the release of the EDGE Tool Suite for ColdFire. EDGE provides ColdFire developers a flexible and powerful platform for development of real-world, deployable applications. There is a lot of movement around ColdFire microprocessors and microcontrollers, and we are excited to be addressing the needs of these developers," said Glen Johnson Glen Johnson may refer to:
Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. Division, Mentor Graphics. The EDGE software, which includes tutorials and demos, contains a graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) that permits users to interact with the GUI while the EDGE software is busy running background tasks such as building the user application. This is particularly useful when debugging large applications with multiple cores, as engineers typically focus on different parts of their application, concurrently. Adhering to the Eclipse platform debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. paradigm, and hence offering ultimate openness, the EDGE Debugger provides developers with a number of debugging environments. For example, using host-based debugging, software developers can experiment by running an application on the host machine before the final hardware is available or even decided upon. This allows the software developer to start coding earlier in the development cycle. The EDGE Debugger also provides basic execution and memory control, plus advanced debugging features such as run-mode debug and kernel awareness when using a real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ). It also provides real-time trace, profiling, performance analysis, and code coverage for doing sophisticated code analysis. Additionally, the EDGE Debugger offers embedded developers true multi-core debugging, allowing them to fully debug their complete embedded system, whether small or complex. Pricing and Availability Licenses for the EDGE Tool Suite begin at U.S. $3,000 per seat for the IDE and debugger package. For more information, please contact Mentor Graphics embedded systems division at 800-468-6853 or embedded_info@mentor.com. 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 over $725 million and employs approximately 4,050 people worldwide. 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 EDGE 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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