Mentor Graphics Provides PowerPC Developers With Complete Embedded Software Solution for Faster Design.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999-- VRTX An earlier real time operating system for embedded systems from Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, OR (www.mentor.com). VRTX was the progenitor of the VxWorks OS from Wind River and was superseded by Nucleus OS. VRTX - Virtual Real-Time Executive. 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. Features New Networking Support; New Compilers Reduce Application Code Size up to 30 Percent Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) today announced the new release of its comprehensive embedded software development solution for applications built around PowerPC microprocessors from Motorola, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , and Mentor Graphics' synthesizable cores. Embedded developers can now use the new Microtec(R) C and C++ Compilers and VRTX(R) 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) -- featuring performance and connectivity enhancements -- along with the industry-standard XRAY(R) Debugger, to build reliable, compact PowerPC-based applications more quickly while reducing overall product time to market. "Mentor Graphics' VRTX RTOS was the perfect fit for our DVi2000 digital set-top terminal featuring multimedia functionality and third-party application support," said Charlie Bramhall, director of engineering, General Instrument Corporation. "Based around a PowerPC microprocessor, the DVi2000's primary requirements were high reliability, low memory usage, and support for third-party applications via network connectivity. The VRTX RTOS provided exactly what we needed to achieve our product performance goals." "We are committed to becoming the dominant provider of embedded software solutions for the PowerPC microprocessor family, whether it be for a traditional board-based embedded application or a system-on-chip design," said Michael Kaskowitz, vice president and general manager of Mentor Graphics' Embedded Software Division. "We have a strong working relationship with both Motorola and IBM and extensive expertise with this family of processors. Together, we can provide developers of new PowerPC applications with a significant competitive advantage." VRTX Maximizes Performance for Networking and Telecommunications Applications Mentor Graphics' VRTX RTOS now provides optimal performance for PowerPC applications. In addition to its fast interrupt response times and deterministic operations, the VRTX RTOS now offers fast message-passing primitives and an enhanced memory management unit (MMU (Memory Management Unit) The part of the computer that governs memory access. Either part of the CPU chip or housed on separate chips, the MMU controls memory partitions and virtual memory. See memory and virtual memory. MMU - Memory Management Unit ) API that gives developers fine-grain control over cache operations. This capability ensures that applications take full advantage of the PowerPC's advanced architecture to maximize throughput. The VRTX RTOS now features enhanced networking support for telecommunications infrastructure applications and other distributed systems by providing support for Common Object Request Broker Architecture (standard, programming) Common Object Request Broker Architecture - (CORBA) An Object Management Group specification which provides a standard messaging interface between distributed objects. The original CORBA specification (1. (CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global ) in cooperation with Highlander Communications LC, as well as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (protocol) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - (DHCP) A protocol that provides a means to dynamically allocate IP addresses to computers on a local area network. The system administrator assigns a range of IP addresses to DHCP and each client computer on the LAN has its TCP/IP (DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Software that automatically assigns temporary IP addresses to client stations logging into an IP network. It eliminates having to manually assign permanent "static" IP addresses. DHCP software runs in servers and routers. ) via its TCP/IP stack. Support for these protocols enables developers using VRTX on the PowerPC to quickly and easily build applications for distributed systems and devices requiring flexible remote bootup configuration support. For embedded devices requiring advanced Internet connectivity, the VRTX RTOS also supports the Java Virtual Machine A Java interpreter. The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is software that converts the Java intermediate language (bytecode) into machine language and executes it. The original JVM came from the JavaSoft division of Sun. -- in cooperation with NSI See Network Solutions. NSI - Network Solutions, Inc. Com -- and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. ). (See related announcement, "NSI Com to Provide Optimized Java Virtual Machine for Mentor Graphics' VRTX Real-Time Operating System," 3/2/99.) New Compilers Reduce Application Size up to 30 percent The Microtec C and C++ Compilers have been significantly enhanced in the areas of optimizer and instruction selection and header file compilation to provide greater accuracy and measurable improvement in application run-time efficiency and code-size reduction. In addition, the compilers can now perform cross-file optimizations that eliminate the size overhead associated with poor implementations of C++ constructs such as templates. These optimizations automatically identify duplicate copies of templates, in-line functions, and virtual function tables, and remove them, resulting in up to a 30 percent reduction in application size. Designed to minimize the time-to-market impact of source code migration from 68K-based designs to PowerPC-based designs, the Microtec C and C++ Compilers for PowerPC provide support for the latest standards, a wide variety of older language dialects such as K&R C and Cfront, and support consistent extensions across 68K and PowerPC targets. In addition, build environments and make files can be migrated since the PowerPC compilers maintain command line option. Price and Availability For more informcing for Microtec C and C++ Compilers for the Mofor a node-locked license and US $5,300 for a floating license on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). hosts. About Mentor Graphics C. Company headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com. Mentor Graphics, Microtec, VRTX and XRAY are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company and product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. |
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