Navionics (Navigational Plotter)
"We chose Nucleus PLUS again for our newest chart plotter for several reasons. Nucleus PLUS is a trusted and reliable real-time kernel in the embedded market. Also, Mentor's source code, no royalties business model perfectly suits our advanced marine product line.... Mentor Graphics worked closely with us to make the advanced design of the Navionics Geonav 11 Flash a reality." --Federico Sturlese, Engineering Manager of Navionics.
Mentor Graphics Announces Design Win for Nucleus PLUS in Navionics Geonav 11 Flash Marine GPS Chart-Plotter
Mentor Graphics, Inc. has supplied the royalty-free Nucleus PLUS kernel for the new Navionics Geonav 11 Flash GPS chart-plotter. This is the second design win for Nucleus PLUS in a Navionics product.
Aimed at the fast-growing European leisure and professional boating market, the Navionics Geonav 11 Flash includes such advanced navigation functions as marine cartography with port services, tides and currents, plus storage of routes, waypoints, tracks and markers including date, time, Latitude/Longitude, depth, temperature and wind data.
The new Geonav 11 Flash chart-plotter takes advantage of the high performance Nucleus PLUS kernel. Nucleus PLUS provides efficient, high performance task management, inter-task communication, inter-task synchronization, memory management, and component query features. Optimizations in system clock, interrupt and compiler register usage are only part of the advanced features provided by Nucleus PLUS. The kernel handles difficult issues such as priority inversion while minimizing the interrupt latency to a few microseconds.