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Nucleus software provides handset manufacturers with a comprehensive collection of software components and tools to design and develop mobile phones.

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The functionality of mobile handsets has dramatically expanded from voice-centric applications and rudimentary displays to multimedia, internet access and rich user interfaces. The demand for more sophisticated features and applications will continue to fuel the market, and pose challenges for silicon vendors and device manufactures to provide as much functionality as possible in new and differentiated products, while still managing to meet aggressive demands on price, size, battery life, and time to market.

Nucleus Real Time OS is the most widely deployed commercial operating system in the mobile handset market and provides a seamless layer between the application software and the underlying silicon. It frees ODM/OEM software developers to innovate and differentiate, instead of being tied up working on mundane platform development and time-consuming hardware integration.

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EDGE Developer Suite is the ideal development tool complement to Nucleus RTOS, with all the development tools needed for mobile handset software development.

Reasons to Use Nucleus RTOS

Nucleus Real Time OS is a standardized, proven software platform for feature phones which runs on silicon from the major providers: TI, ST, Mediatek, Broadcom, Infineon, NXP, Samsung, Freescale, NEC, and Renesas.

A compelling and differentiated look and feel can be rapidly created and customized using Nucleus UI menu system. Advanced graphical effects and dynamic switching can be implemented and tested in a matter of minutes in a drag and-drop design environment.

A power-efficient design is an inevitable consequence of using an OS like Nucleus RTOS as efficiency of memory usage is a key requirement.

A single vendor solution which streamlines development and contains costs. Nucleus Real Time OS is truly real time, with a small memory footprint and a flexible business model, and includes all the services and development tools that might be expected in a complete embedded operating system: Kernels, Storage & Database, Networking, USB, UI, Multimedia.

Rapid hardware migration is facilitated by a proven OS hardware abstraction layer and standard open APIs for portability.

Rich ecosystem around Nucleus Real Time OS. Best-in-class software partners have partnered with Mentor Graphics to create Nucleus-based value-added enhancements for mobile handset applications: Bluetooth, Web browsers, messaging, FOTA (Firmware Over The Air), multimedia codecs, audio enhancements, DRM.

CASE STUDIES

The right operating system is critical for a successful mobile handset implementation. The silicon vendors are proactive in ensuring the availability of the right software:

"Texas Instruments is pleased to work with Mentor Graphics to further our efforts to enable development of advanced mobile multimedia feature phones for the mass market. The flexibility of Mentor’s Nucleus Real Time OS gives handset manufacturers the ability to address the growing consumer demand for affordable multimedia devices with a broad range of handsets."

Sylvie Deschamps, Strategic Sourcing General Manager, TI

"Nomadik is an award-winning family of application processors that delivers best-in-class multimedia performance for mobile phone manufacturers. We quickly recognized that the Nucleus Real Time OS is extremely popular. The partnership with Mentor Graphics will provide Nomadik customers the ability to leverage their experience and legacy while adopting sophisticated multimedia functionality for mass volume deployment."

Jyrki Hännikainen, general manager, Application Processor Division, STMicroelectronics

"Enfora has been using the Nucleus Real Time OS kernel for several years now. It has proven itself to be extremely reliable and flexible. The same can be said for the Nucleus Networking Services TCP/IP stack. We have experience with several other TCP/IP stack implementations and none has proved to be as efficient and reliable as the Mentor product. We look forward to continuing to work closely with Mentor Graphics on our future generations of GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 3G products."

Scott Constien, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Enfora, Inc.