Customer Success Stories

Mentor’s Embedded Systems Division is committed to empowering our customers to deliver truly great electronic products. We want to tell the world about the achievements our customers have been able to make through working with us, and to this end we have created the Customer Success Program (CSP).

CSP offers Mentor customers numerous benefits such as visibility within their own organization and the value they bring to the marketplace, peer-to-peer networking, and an opportunity to work with Mentor Graphics sales and marketing teams to provide new ways to cross-promote, build awareness, and maximize exposure for products empowered by our technology.
Innovators and business leaders from a variety of industries have already participated in our CSP (see below). Customers can choose from a variety of program activities.

Opportunities include:

Participating in a written or multimedia success story
Displaying a customer’s products at Mentor-sponsored industry events
Participating in a Mentor Graphics press release
Speaking by phone with industry analysts or potential Mentor Graphics customers
Speaking directly to Mentor Graphics product experts
Participating in product development focus groups

Featured Customer Success Stories

BitRouter Corporation (digital TV)
BitRouter Corporation used Nucleus OS for a cost-sensitive set-top box application.
ANRAD Corporation (X-ray detectors)
ANRAD Corporation used Nucleus OS and EDGE Developer Suite to develop X-ray detectors for the most advanced digital radiography machines.
TI-Nspire (graphing calculator)
Texas Instruments used Nucleus OS (including Nucleus USB Services) and EDGE SimTest to develop the TI-Nspire range of advanced graphing calculators.

Success Stories by Application

Consumer Electronics

BitRouter Corporation (digital TV)
BitRouter Corporation used Nucleus OS for a cost-sensitive set-top box application.
IVL Technologies (handheld karaoke player)
IVL Technologies used Nucleus OS to develop the On-Key Karaoke Handheld Player – a microphone that plugs into a TV and allows a person to sing along with many of their favorite songs.
TI-Nspire (graphing calculator)
Texas Instruments used Nucleus OS (including Nucleus USB Services) and EDGE SimTest to develop the TI-Nspire range of advanced graphing calculators.

Industrial Automation & Control

Lake Technology (sound management)
Lake Technology used Nucleus OS to develop Clair iO – a 2-input, 6-output loudspeaker controller that employs 40-bit floating point DSP processing for a wholly innovative approach to live sound.
Dolby Laboratories (sound management)
Dolby Laboratories used Nucleus OS to develop the Dolby Lake Processor – a digital signal processing hardware and software system providing advanced loudspeaker management and equalization functionality.
Kohler (industrial controller)
Kohler Power Systems used Nucleus OS (including Nucleus Networking Services, Nucleus File System Services and Nucleus USB Services) to develop the MPAC 1500 industrial controller.
Stock Flight Systems (flight simulation)
Stock Flight Systems used the EDGE Compiler to develop flight simulation equipment.

Medical

ANRAD Corporation (X-ray detectors)
ANRAD Corporation used Nucleus OS and EDGE Developer Suite to develop X-ray detectors for the most advanced digital radiography machines.
ZOLL Medical Corporation (heart defibrillator)
ZOLL Medical Corporation used Nucleus OS to develop ZOLL AED Plus – an automated external defibrillator.
Analogic Corporation (fetal heart monitor)
Analogic Corporation used Nucleus OS to develop FETALGARD Lite – a low-cost, modular, portable, antepartum fetal monitor.
Instrumentation Laboratory (blood analysis)
Instrumentation Laboratory used Nucleus OS running on multiple processors to develop the ACL TOP blood analyzer.
ZONARE Medical Systems (ultrasound system)
ZONARE Medical Systems used Nucleus OS (including Nucleus Networking Services, Nucleus USB Services and Nucleus File System Services) to develop z.one - the first Convertible Ultrasound platform.

Mobile Handsets

NEC America (535 HD mobile handset)
NEC America used Nucleus OS to develop the 535M High Definition Mobile+ (HDM) handset.

Navigational Controls

Garmin AT (integrated avionics system)
Garmin AT used Nucleus OS (including Nucleus File System Services and Nucleus Graphics and GUI Services)
to develop CNX80 – an advanced integrated avionics system designed for general aviation, which includes the industry's first certified Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)/GPS navigator which dramatically improves the accuracy, integrity and availability of the GPS.
Honeywell Networking (terrain proximity system)
Honeywell Networking used Nucleus OS to develop the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System product for aviation applications.

Networking

Quatech (serial device servers)
Quatech used Nucleus OS to develop the ThinQ line of wired and wireless serial device servers.
Telephonics Corporation (secure digital communications system – 767 Tanker)
Telephonics Corporation used Nucleus OS to develop the Secure Digital Intercommunication (SDI) for the 767 Tanker program.}
Telephonics Corporation (secure digital communications system – C-130)
Telephonics Corporation used Nucleus OS to develop the Secure Digital Intercommunication (SDI) for the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program.

Test & Measurement

Coherent Detectors, formerly Molectron Detectors (portable laser power energy meter)
Coherent used Nucleus OS to develop 3sigma – the latest in precision laser power and energy measurement technology.
Ionics Instruments (total organic carbon monitor)
Ionics Instruments used Nucleus OS to develop the Sievers 900 Series Analyzers, which are used for general total organic carbon (TOC) monitoring in pharmaceutical, municipal, semiconductor and power applications.
Pendulum Instruments (timer/counter/analyzer)
Pendulum Instruments used Nucleus OS to develop the CNT-90 timer/counter/analyzer instrument, which is a tool for measurement, analysis and calibration of frequency, time interval or phase.
Taylor Hobson Limited (metrology instrument)
Taylor Hobson used Nucleus OS (including Nucleus Networking Services, Nucleus File System Services and Nucleus Graphics and GUI Services) to develop the Form Talysurf Intra – a surface metrology instrument that allows engineers to measure surface roughness, waviness and form.
Smiths Detection, formerly Barringer Technologies (hand held trace detector)
Smiths Detection used Nucleus OS to develop the SABRE 2000 Hand Held Trace Detector.
Trilithic Inc. (telecoms return path analyzer)
Trilithic used Nucleus OS to develop the 9581 SST Return Path Analyzer.

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