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Blog Post: Heterogeneous Asymmetric Multiprocessing Patient Monitoring Demo Overview

Ricardo Anguiano — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:39:25 GMT

Ship better products faster with Mentor Embedded’s comprehensive suite of run-time platforms, development tools and custom engineering services. Our Qt-based patient monitoring demo and the underlying Mentor Embedded run-time platforms, development tools and technologies are featured in the video below. Featured in this video: Sourcery CodeBench – Our Eclipse based, GNU Toolchain backed

On-demand Web Seminar: Debugging Multicore and Heterogeneous Embedded Systems

Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:53:23 GMT

Learn how to debug complex multi operating system, multi-core and heterogeneous architecture based systems independently and simultaneously with the latest version of Sourcery Codebench combined with Mentor Embedded Linux, the Nucleus RTOS and the BDI3000 probe from Abatron.

Blog Post: Undefined behavior and other delights of (bad) C programming

Colin Walls — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:55:07 GMT

I started a couple of weeks ago, when I received an email from Sandeep Vasant from Ahmedabad University in India. For reasons that he has yet to reveal, he was having trouble with some code like this: int a=10, b=20, c=0; c = a++ + a++ + b++ + b++ + ++a + ++b; He tried this with one compiler and the resulting values of a, b and c were 13, 23 and 96 respectively. He was satisfied with this result.

Blog Post: Quick and dirty code checking and execution

Colin Walls — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:11:27 GMT

I often need to do a bit of programming – normally C or C++. I am not generally writing a real software application, as that is not my job, but I often need to produce chunks of code to illustrate a point in an article, presentation or blog post. This code can be anything from a single line to a few dozen. Obviously, all I need to do is create a text file for the code and build it using a suitable

Blog Post: Words on tap - are streaming books next?

Colin Walls — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:40:19 GMT

Some time ago, I wrote about my view on the future of music. In a nutshell, I was saying that live performance was what it was all about. Time has moved on and I have further thoughts on the topic. Also, over that time, e-books have become quite mainstream and I question where that technology is taking us. It seems that David Bowie has been having the same kind of thoughts … Some time ago, Mr.

On-demand Web Seminar: Vehicle Network Timing Analysis

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:21:41 GMT

This webinar will look at the timing models of CAN and FlexRay vehicle networks, some of the design and analysis tools available to analyze and predict message transfer performance, and synthesize message frames.

Blog Post: Multicore systems: heterogenous architectures - untangling the technology and terminology

Colin Walls — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:25:31 GMT

Multicore continues to be a hot topic, as an ever-increasing number of embedded systems are designed with multiple CPUs – most commonly multiple cores on a chip. One of the challenges with understanding multicore is that the term actually covers a number of architectures and approaches to design. This is a topic that I have discussed somewhat before, but the increasing popularity of multicore

On-demand Web Seminar: Managing Over-The-Air Software Update and Management for Automotive Systems

Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:51:09 GMT

This webinar will discuss approaches to implement and manage OTA, and in particular review the Arynga CarSync™ solution which has been integrated into the Mentor Graphics Automotive Technology Platform (ATP) for infotainment systems.

Blog Post: Supporting UIs on Resource Constrained Systems -- Guest Post by Phil Brumby

Matt Radochonski — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:03:53 GMT

Welcome to another blog post in our Guest Blogger series. Today Phil Brumby (contact information below) , our Technical Marketing Engineer responsible for our graphics and user interface products checks in with his second guest blogger item to discuss embedded UI implementation. You can read his first guest blogger item on utilizing Qt by clicking here. In my 8 years of experience implementing user

News Article: Mentor Graphics Launches Comprehensive Solution for Heterogeneous Multicore Embedded Software Development

Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:00:00 GMT

WILSONVILLE, Ore., July 16, 2014 —Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the embedded software industry’s first comprehensive solution for heterogeneous multicore system-on-chip (SoC) development.