Freescale’s i.MX family of application processors have been designed for a wide range of applications that include smartphones, portable media players, portable navigation devices, video surveillance, point-of-sale systems, and bar code scanners along with many other consumer, industrial, healthcare, and general-purpose embedded applications.

Based on ARM core technology and its industry-leading ARM 32-bit RISC architecture, Freescale’s i.MX family is engineered with Smart Speed technology to deliver powerful performance while minimizing power consumption. Extensive integration also helps to significantly reduce design time. Built around the ARM9 and ARM11 processor cores, these MCUs feature a highly parallel internal AMBA bus architecture with distributed DMA and memory to achieve maximum data bandwidth.

Mentor Graphics has been at the forefront of supporting Freescale ARM-based microcontrollers and applications processors for many years with Nucleus RTOS and EDGE Developer Suite. Nucleus RTOS Platform Solutions take this support to a new level by implementing its compelling Nucleus UI technology with a pre-validated application. Re-targeting from one supported hardware platform to another becomes simple. In addition to supporting the latest feature-rich Freescale reference hardware, Nucleus RTOS Platform Solutions fully support an integrated EDGE SimTest environment to enable customers to easily run the same application on a virtual platform even before silicon is available. Therefore, Nucleus RTOS Platform Solutions for Freescale provide developers with a complete platform with which to start prototyping and building products immediately.