Consumer Electronics

From digital cameras to portable media players - the consumer electronics market is revolutionizing the way we communicate and share digital media. As the promise of digital convergence drives customer expectations for devices that "do it all at a reduced cost," device designers are forced to respond to challenges associated with reduced bill of materials (BOM), integration efforts, and power consumption in increasingly complex systems.

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Nucleus Real Time OS

Mentor Graphics provides a one-stop shop for the complete solution you need. With tools and the proven Nucleus Real Time OS, Mentor Graphics supplies the performance, features, and third-party ecosystem of pre-integrated software solutions necessary to bring feature-rich electronic devices to market quickly and easily. Learn More About Nucleus Real Time OS

EDGE Developer Suite

The EDGE Developer Suite extends these advantages with a complete, integrated development flow that supports embedded software development all within the same user interface based on the open source Eclipse Platform. Learn More About EDGE Developer Suite

Benefits

Increase Performance

A reliable infrastructure is required to provide the interoperability, software integration and performance needed for digital home devices. Ensuring low latency and high-speed data throughput, the Nucleus Real Time OS is proven to meet these challenges.

Reduce Bill of Material (BOM) Cost

Experience economies of scale by lowering cost on your high-volume consumer devices. The Nucleus Real Time OS offers a full-featured, highly optimized solution (as low as 150kbytes) with a flexible licensing model.

Overcome Data Storage Challenges

As new peripherals are introduced to meet storage requirements, reliable software is needed to support these peripherals. With solutions for ISO 9660, FAT and Flash, Nucleus FILE provides a solid foundation for file management, supporting devices such as: USB, CDROM, IDE/ATA, floppy disk, PCMCIA, SD and SATA.

Transfer Media Content

Whether transferring audio, video or photos, Nucleus USB is the answer for today’s connectivity and data transfer problems. Use Nucleus MTP along with your preferred DRM scheme to securely deliver media. Print directly from your device to your printer using Nucleus PictBridge.

Differentiate Your Interactive Program Guide

The UI is the face of any product and is mission critical to success. As broadband subscribers increase, providers are offering more interactive triple-play services (voice, video and data) for consumers. From the simplest user interface, to more complex windowing schemes, Nucleus UI Services, coupled with drivers for keyboard, keypad, mouse, touch panel and LCD, provide the solution necessary to create and differentiate user displays.

Make the Connection

Utilizing the Internet Protocol (IP), devices are bringing exciting new features and services to consumers. Nucleus Networking Services TCP/IP networking solutions are fully compliant and support IPv4/IPv6 addressing along with a plethora of Ethernet drivers and middleware.

Products

Nucleus Real Time OS

  • Small footprint kernel (fully functional at 12 K)
  • Source code provided
  • Deployed in billions of devices per year

Nucleus Networking

  • TCP/UDP/IP networking stack
  • Support for IPv6
  • 802.11a/b/g
  • SSL, 802.11i

Nucleus USB

  • USB 2.0 (host and function) and hi-speed OTG certified by USB-IFUSB
  • Comprehensive class driver support
  • Mass Storage, Printer, Still Image, Communication, Video, Audio, and more

Nucleus Kernel Extensions

  • MMU for memory protection and security
  • DDL for dynamically adding features
  • POSIX, μiTRON support

Nucleus Storage & Database

  • ISO9660, FAT, and FLASH support
  • IDE, SD, PCMCIA, CompactFlash, SATA, USB
  • Optimized for multitasking systems

EDGE Developer Suite

  • Eclipse-based IDE
  • Simulation environment ideal for proving UI operation
  • System simulation enables multiple device interaction testing
  • Compilers

Who's Using Nucleus?

“We selected a modular, multitasking architecture that would allow us to differentiate from the competition, give us exceptional flexibility for development, and permit us to evolve rapidly. The simplest way was to utilize a real-time kernel that would play the role of the leader with respect to the totality of the tasks."

Claude Rousselot, Digital Television Product Manager, Dassault AT

“We received excellent technical support from Mentor Graphics. I base that comment on the prompt and accurate response received from technical support over the past 3 to 4 years of development with Nucleus products. That support, combined with the source code, licensing model and the rich features of the Nucleus Real Time OS, has made our Mercury system a success in the broadcast media industry."

Phil Luke, Development Manager, Trilogy Broadcast

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Customer Success

BitRouter

Digital TV and cable software solution provider uses Mentor's Embedded solutions to design digital transport adaptors. View