Date: 08/11/2012

Mentor enhances capabilities of its Sourcery CodeBench and Sourcery Analyzer

Mentor Graphics Corporation has announced new releases of the free Sourcery CodeBench Lite command-line development tools which include enhanced versions of the modern open source components such as GCC 4.7.2 and GDB 7.4.50.

New or enhanced capabilities of the Sourcery CodeBench and Sourcery Analyzer product releases include:
Usability improvements to connect to JTAG and probe devices, select target device configuration, and configure application usage of system libraries
Enhanced static analysis capabilities to pinpoint common C and C++ errors as code is being written
Faster debug probe connection to the application for efficient debugging and test
Support for leading hardware including Altera Nios II, Freescale i.MX, Freescale Kinetis, Fujitsu FM3, Qualcomm Brew MP, Texas Instruments’ DaVinci, OMAP, Sitara and Stellaris, and many other ARM, Power, MIPS, and x86 core devices
Scheduling, CPU state, mutex locking, process and thread state, and many more analysis agents
State flow, scatter plot, analog value, and seven other graph types
Improved system profiling with LTTng 2.0 [Linux Trace Toolkit] support including simultaneous kernel and user space tracing

“Our commitment to the embedded development community is to deliver easy-to-use open source products and services, and we’ve achieved that with our Sourcery CodeBench and Analyzer tools, specifically for embedded Linux development,” said Glenn Perry, general manager of Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division. “Our robust Sourcery technologies provide the end-to-end solution required for today’s complex, high-performance embedded Linux applications.”