Date: 09/08/2012

Mentor Graphics added and improved support for 42 embedded development boards

Mentor Graphics Corporation said it has added and improved support for 42 embedded development boards for its Nucleus RTOS, Mentor Embedded Linux, and Sourcery Codebench embedded development products. Expanded support for MIPS, SuperH, and ARM-based architectures include the following vendors: Atmel, Freescale, Logic PD, MIPS, Mistral, Renesas, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments.

“Mentor realizes the importance of embedded software and hardware integration, so we are working closely with leading silicon vendors to provide software development support for today’s most popular device families,” stated Glenn Perry, general manager of Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division. “As a leading provider of embedded software solutions, our commitment to the embedded development community includes extensive board support to help our customers quickly bring up their design to achieve higher system performance and productivity, with greater confidence.”

Nucleus RTOS board support updates:
ARM: REALVIEW_EB_CT926EJS (QEMU)

Mentor Embedded Extends Support for 42 Embedded Development Boards listed below:
Atmel: AT91SAM9G10-EK, AT91SAM9263EK, AT91SAM9M10EKES, AT91SAM9M10-EKES (REV 2)
Freescale: i.MX51 EVK, i.MX53 QSB, i.MX28EVK (REVD), i.MX28EVK,
MIPS: SEAD 3 Rev 1.2
Renesas: Renesas RSK2+SH7264
STMicroelectronics: STM3210E-EVAL, STM3220G-EVAL
Texas Instruments: Zoom OMAP-L138 EVM, Mistral DM814x EVM (REV D), Zoom AM1808 eXperimenter Kit (Rev. 1), AM/DM37x EVM, AM335x Evaluation Module (Rev 1.1A), AM3517EVM, Stellaris LM3S9B96-DK

Reference BSP for different processor architectures below:
ARM: Freescale i.mx6, TI PandaBoard, TI BeagleBoard, TI Am37, TI DM37
MIPS: MIPS Malta
Power PC: Freescale P4080DS, Freescale P2020RDB, Freescale MPC8548DS
X86: Tunnel Creek

Sourcery CodeBench platform support updates:
ARM9: Atmel AT91SAM9260-EK Rev B, Freescale i.MX25 PDK, TI AM1808EXP, TI OMAP-L132 EVM, TI OMAP-L138 EVM
ARM Cortex-A8: Freescale i.MX51 EVK, Freescale i.MX53 QSB, TI AM335x EVM, TI OMAP35x EVM, TI PandaBoard (OMAP 4430)
ARM Cortex-M3: Fujitsu SK-FM3-176PMC-ETHERNET, STMicroelectronics STM32100B-EVAL, STM32100E-EVAL