Middleware Partners


Access Company, Ltd.
Access Company, Ltd.

Overview:
ACCESS CO., LTD. is a global, leading technology company providing software products and platforms for web browsing, mobile phones, wireless handhelds and other networked devices. ACCESS' product portfolio, including its NetFront(TM) Browser for Nucleus, provides Mentor Graphics customers with solutions that enable faster time-to-market, flexibility and customizability. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Access operates 27 subsidiaries and affiliates within Asia, Europe and the United States in order to provide Nucleus customers with the flexibility they require in order to get their products to market quickly.

Aonix
Aonix

Overview:
Aonix offers mission and safety-critical solutions to Nucleus customers, primarily in the military and aerospace, telecommunications and transportation industries. Aonix has teamed up with Mentor Graphics to deliver a leading high-reliability, real-time embedded virtual machine solution for running Java™ programs and has the largest number of certified Ada applications at the highest level of criticality. Headquartered in San Diego, CA and Paris, France, Aonix operates sales offices throughout North America and Europe in addition to offering a network of international distributors. PERC Ultra for Nucleus runs on Windows and targets the i.MX21 ARM board from Freescale Semiconductor, and could support any ARM9 or later processor. First introduced nine years ago, PERC is the most widely used real-time Virtual Machine available, with fielded installations in telecommunications, telematics, avionics, deep space exploration, and office automation applications. PERC provides support for Nucleus OS licensees on a variety of target processors including PowerPC, XScale, ARM, and Intel x86 architectures.

Aricent
Aricent

Overview:

Mentor Graphics Corporation has selected Aricent, a full-service, full-spectrum technology software company to provide Nucleus customers with the latest, state-of-the-art technology software products and services in order to get their products to market quickly. As the world's leading communications equipment manufacturers, device manufacturers and service providers, Aricent offers the depth and breadth of services and products within a unique combination of innovation, excellence and results.

Our integrated services and extensive product portfolio is designed to help solve Nucleus customer's most complex software design and development challenges. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Aricent has development centers in India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, Mexico and Germany where Nucleus customers are provided with cutting edge software solutions in Automotive, Consumer Electronics and Building Automation domains. With Mentor Graphics as a valued partner, our team of 7000 and (quality certifications in SEI CMMi Level 5, ISO 9001 - 2000, BS 7799) is ideally positioned to offer its quality but cost effective services.

Arphic Technology
Arphic Technology

Overview:

Established in 1990, Arphic Technology became a leading developer and provider of global fonts for embedded systems. Arphic joined forces as close partners with Mentor Graphics in order to provide Nucleus customers with superior stroke-based font technologies to include Mobile Font®, HiFont®, and Compact TrueType. To support global languages, Arphic Layout Engine® is a program library mastering text layout of written scripts worldwide, such as Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Thai, etc.

Beginning with Asian Chinese character technology, Arphic has progressively developed a series of digitized fonts for a multitude of languages worldwide. Arphic continues to develop prominent font solutions for Nucleus customers to meet their time to market constraints for development of consumer and industrial electronic devices.


Beatnik
Beatnik

Overview:
Beatnik licenses scalable, standards-based structured audio software solutions for mobile devices, which enable rich multimedia content delivery and an enhanced user experience for music, games and device interaction. Beatnik and Mentor Graphics have teamed up to provide a robust mobile audio solution for the popular Nucleus family of products and related mobile phone platforms. Incorporated in 1996, Beatnik was founded by musician and composer Thomas Dolby Robertson.

Blue Peach Solutions
Blue Peach Solutions

Overview:
Blue Peach provides services and networking middleware to clients of Mentor Graphics’ operating system. Our middleware includes CIFS/SMB Windows Network File Sharing Client and Server, NetBIOS, UPnP Client and Server software, Embedded Web Services, XML Parsers, and NTPv3 client and server, all with the Nucleus customer in mind. We also provide custom services for kernel, driver, and tool development.

Datalight
Datalight

Overview:
Datalight and Mentor Graphics have been working closely together for many years to bring best-in-class software solutions for powerful and rugged embedded devices. Datalight software is made to integrate tightly within the Nucleus environment and to provide a seamless and stable platform for data storage on devices. Since the invention of flash memory, Datalight has provided trusted solutions that support the broadest array of flash memory technologies. When data integrity, time to market and design flexibility matter most, the world’s leading device manufacturers invest in solutions from Datalight and Mentor Graphics. From the bottom of the ocean to the depths of space, Datalight provides Nucleus customers with software for trustworthy data on successful devices.

Esmertec
Esmertec

Overview:
Esmertec is a focused provider of software and services for Nucleus customers including communications device manufacturers and mobile telecom operators. The company has partnered with Mentor Graphics Corporation in order to provide software platforms that enable the deployment of content and applications in devices and over servers. Nucleus customers include mobile telecom operators and manufacturers of mobile handsets, set-top boxes and interactive televisions. Esmertec's software and service capabilities excel with their reliability as well as fast and local execution. Founded in 1999, Esmertec is headquartered in Zurich-Switzerland with subsidiaries in China, France, South Korea, and the USA, and offices in Taiwan and the UK. Since 2005, Esmertec has been listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange (ESMN).

GAO
GAO

Overview:
GAO Research Inc. is the leading provider for Nucleus customers in need of embedded software solutions for data (V.92 and fallbacks) and fax modems (V.34 and fallbacks), voice (ITU-T speech codecs), telephony, modem relay and fax over IP (T.38 etc.). GAO software is fully optimized on many popular fixed and floating point DSPs and microprocessors. GAO Research has been serving industry leaders since 1992. The Nucleus Real-Time OS by Mentor Graphics is the preferred operating system for many embedded designs and is fully supported by GAO software. Mentor Graphics embedded systems together with GAO software provides a world-class software solution to telecom customers.

Jataayu
Jataayu

Overview:
Jataayu Software is a leading provider of products and solutions for mobile handsets helping ODMs, OEMs and handset manufacturers design and build feature-rich differentiated handsets quickly. Jataayu’s products for Nucleus include its flagship mobile HTML browser and a suite of complimentary products covering WAP, MMS, IM, Email, SyncML and OTA client solutions. The Jataayu-Mentor Graphics partnership objective is to offer customers a pre-integrated, highly customizable, robust mobile application suite with Jataayu mobile browser, MMS and IM client solutions on the Inflexion Platform. The process of porting validating and integrating software for mobile phones takes significant monetary and time investment. This pre-integrated solution will simplify the development process for introducing multiple phone models and reduce time to market.

MapuSoft Technologies
MapuSoft Technologies

Overview:

MapuSoft Technologies is the number one provider of embedded software re-usability solutions and services that are designed to protect software investment by providing customers with a greater level of flexibility and control with product development. Mapusoft partnered with Mentor Graphics to provide it's Nucleus customers with porting, integration, support and training services that assist in easy migration from legacy platforms to the next generation.

We are working hard to provide software that is practical, familiar, financially reasonable, and easily operable. As is with Nucleus products, Maspusoft provides a source/non-royalty solution. Our licensing strategy makes it extremely affordable for you to incorporate the Nucleus family of products with ours and within your embedded applications. OS Changer® compatibility API libraries allow you to instantly re-use your existing code base on Nucleus to protect your current software investment. OS Abstractor® API libraries allow you to re-use your code across multiple real time operating systems including Nucleus to protect your software investment. OS PAL(tm) (OS Porting & Abstraction Lab) leverages the existing OS Changer and OS Abstractor technologies while adding advanced code optimization capacities on multiple OS environments. OS PAL provides users an easy-to-use graphical user interface that is integrated with the Eclipse® based CDT environment.


McObject
McObject

Overview:
McObject's eXtremeDB for Nucleus in-memory embedded database system provides critical database management features--including transactions, concurrent access, and a high-level data definition languag--while maintaining a tiny code footprint (as little as 50K). As an in-memory database system (IMDS), eXtremeDB for Nucleus delivers the highest level of real-time responsiveness, backed up by optional High Availability features for failsafe operation. eXtremeDB's integration with Mentor Graphics Corporation's Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) joins two popular embedded systems tools, building a strong foundation for a wide range of real-time applications requiring proven data management, including networking equipment, avionics, consumer electronics, industrial controllers and other intelligent devices that demand high performance, reliability, and a flexible development environment. By adopting Nucleus and eXtremeDB, applications gain real-time responsiveness, a 'must' for embedded systems; portability, to leverage the value of source code by enabling wide re-use; and minimal memory and CPU footprint, which lends a manufacturing cost advantage.

Mindtree
Mindtree

Overview:
Mentor Graphics Corporation has teamed-up with MindTree Consulting, an international IT company that delivers affordable business and technology solutions through global software development to it's Nucleus customers. MindTree Consulting's R&D Services combines expertise in semiconductor IP's, hardware and software to offer complete product realization services. Nucleus customers are served throughout the Communication, Wireless, Industrial Automation and Consumer Appliances industries to create their next generation products. MindTree has a strong domain expertise in ASIC /SOC Design, IP development, board, system and embedded software. MindTree's licensable technologies include UWB (MAC and PHY), Bluetooth, echo cancellation and noise reduction, iSCSI, VoIP etc. MindTree Consulting's Global Delivery Model for Product Development enhances Nucleus customers' ability to reduce their cost of product development dramatically while keeping a control on product architecture. It also enables easy ramping up & ramping down of product teams based on business priorities.

Ncore
Ncore

Overview:
The MIPS® Ecosystem provides the silicon design community with one of the richest and most comprehensive environments offered in today’s embedded space, with a broad infrastructure of silicon IP, tools, software, hardware and services to help ensure rapid, reliable, and cost-effective development. MIPS Technologies also works closely with many companies, through its MIPS Alliance Program (MAP), to cultivate a diverse and robust support infrastructure.

Radvision
Radvision

Overview:
RADVISION (Nasdaq: RVSN - News) and Mentor Graphics Corporation teamed up to provide Nucleus customers with market-proven products and technologies for unified visual communications over IP and 3G networks. With its complete set of standards-based video networking infrastructure and developer toolkits for voice, video, data and wireless communications, RADVISION and Mentor Graphics Operating System are driving the unified communications evolution by combining the power of video, voice, data and wireless – for high definition videoconferencing systems, innovative services on converged IP and 3G networks, and highly scalable video-enabled desktop platforms for IP and emerging next-generation networks.

SUN
SUN

Overview:
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. In today's market, early stage companies are challenged to bring highly available and scalable applications to market quickly and cost-effectively. Together, Mentor Graphics Corporation and Sun have met that challenge by providing robust solutions and accelerated time to market. Both companies can be found in more than 100 countries worldwide
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