Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 March 2002
Mentor takes over Accelerated Technology
Mentor Graphics has acquired the privately held embedded software company Accelerated Technology
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Accelerated Technology, an established provider of real-time and embedded systems development software, will spearhead Mentor's expanded Embedded Systems Division, reinforcing the company's commitment to matching software development products with hardware design and verification tools.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 March 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Mentor Graphics recognised early that software development would become the primary bottleneck in delivery of complex designs", said Dr Walden C Rhines, Chairman of the Board and CEO for Mentor Graphics.
"In order to successfully integrate IC development into full system design, embedded software and hardware EDA providers need to work together to provide software development that is staged early in the IC design flow".
Rhines continued, "With the acquisition of Accelerated Technology, we significantly strengthen our embedded software portfolio, allowing us to offer our customers a unique combination of best-in-class embedded software and hardware design and verification solutions".
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Accelerated Technology will continue to operate from its current location in Mobile, Alabama.
Its two distinct product lines, codelab, an embedded software development suite and Nucleus, a royalty-free real-time operating system, will join the Mentor Graphics Xray debugger as part of the Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division.
The product portfolio will continue being integrated into other Mentor solutions, including the Seamless hardware/software coverification environment.
Accelerated Technology's broad customer base includes Compaq, Honeywell, Motorola, NASA, Sony and Texas Instruments and its products are used in a broad selection of applications, ranging from telecommunications, networking and portable devices to industrial control and medical instrumentation.
"By designing and maintaining all our software products in-house, we have developed extensive knowledge and expertise in the embedded market", said Neil Henderson, former president of Accelerated Technology and new general manager of the Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division.
"As part of Mentor Graphics, we gain total access to Mentor's sales and marketing resources, distribution channels, engineering team and worldwide recognition, enabling us to reach more integrated software solutions for the embedded design community".
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