Mentor Graphics: Embedded Design Was Extended into ESL

Published:2011/6/10 6:41:00 Author:Amy From:SeekIC

It is said that Mentor Graphics unveiled a new unified embedded software debugging platform from pre-silicon to final product at the Design Automation Conference.

It connects Sourcery CodeBench embedded software development tools to its ESL (electronic system level), verification, and hardware emulation products including Vista Virtual Prototyping, Veloce hardware emulator, prototype target boards, and end products.


Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, said that the new common platform is aimed to enable embedded software experts to get technology data from hardware design tools. But the native embedded environment will not be abandoned.

Mentor-acquired Sourcery G++ technology is the de facto standard for embedded Linux and bare metal software development. Its registered users have exceeded 20 thousands, and the Sourcery CodeBench product was derived from it.


According to Wally Rhines, the common platform is flexible as to operate unified embedded software debug and analysis at any stage of development. It is ideal for prior visibility of system performance and embedded software validation.

It has greater accuracy, more optimized performance and faster product delivery as upfront and continuous retooling of complex SoCs and multicore designs.

The Sourcery CodeBench IDE is based on the GNU tool chain and its System Analyzer provides a system-level visual analysis capability that allows developers to see what is running on each software core to identify bottlenecks, gain insight on resource utilization, and to build more reliable multicore systems.
The System Analyzer of Sourcery CodeBench IDE offers system-level visual analysis capability. It enable experts leant what is running on each software core to know bottlenecks, gain insight on resource utilization, and to build more reliable multicore systems. It adopts the GNU tool chain.

The host software target generated by the tool includes a unique unified trace and debug data repository of code that can be tested across the evolving range of hardware representations.

This technology provides consistency and flexibility over the entire system-level development flow by enabling hardware and software designers to select their preferred methodology for embedded software debug and design optimization, from virtual prototypes to boards. The related integrated circuit is MB2S.

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