Date: 04/04/2012

Mentor Embedded Linux supports open source Yocto Project

Mentor Graphics Corporation has released its next generation Mentor Embedded Linux platform that includes support for the Yocto Project, an open source collaborative project established by The Linux Foundation. The Mentor Embedded Linux platform helps developers build Linux-based embedded systems, independent of hardware architecture. With the new Mentor Embedded Linux platform, developers also gain the ability to easily select the best Linux kernel for their needs, irrespective of the kernel developed by Mentor Graphics or by a semiconductor company or by any third party.

The Yocto Project was created to provide open source, standardized tools, and resources to support embedded development. Mentor Graphics drives this open source technology built on its previous acquisitions of CodeSourcery and Embedded Alley.

The Mentor Embedded Linux platform supporting the Yocto Project is integrated with the Mentor Sourcery CodeBench and Sourcery System Analyzer tools. Mentor's Sourcery CodeBench professional-quality GNU toolchain is a complete development environment for embedded C/C++ development on many hardware architectures. The Sourcery System Analyzer tool is a comprehensive system and application performance analysis tool that speeds performance analysis on multi-core systems with visualization of multiple data sources in synchronized timeline views.

Reference board support packages (BSPs) for leading hardware platforms, including those from Broadcom, Freescale, Intel, and Texas Instruments are included in the Mentor Embedded Linux platform. The Linux platform also supports QEMU, allowing users to develop Linux systems in simulation without using actual hardware.
For more information on the Mentor Embedded Linux platform and to download the free PandaBoard and BeagleBoard Linux kits, visit http://go.mentor.com/linuxkitpr

The Mentor Embedded team involves in the open source community, with Inflexion 2D and 3D UI development, Sourcery open source tools, and Nucleus RTOS solutions.
More information on Mentor Embedded products and services can be found at http://www.mentor.com/embedded