Figure 1 - EDGE Developer Suite Block Diagram

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1 For businesses and consumers, the digital world is a place where user applications and interfaces keep getting easier. Embedded microprocessors aid in nearly every mundane task from monitoring the manufacturing line to microwaving a family meal at the end of the day. But the software developers creating this world face mounting challenges. Management wants projects delivered on impossible schedules. The laundry list of features from the marketing department just keeps growing, while the budget never seems to. And, of course, everything must perform flawlessly. With these external pressures looming, embedded software developers spend their days (and often their nights) wrestling with a code base run amok, or else, struggling to maintain a hard won state of order in their systems. If you re facing issues like these, you know that it takes more than a collection of off-the-shelf software to improve the situation. You need a technology partner who understands the problems you are up against and offers solutions based on extensive experience to help you save time, master complexity, maintain quality and minimize the cost of development. For over 15 years, the Nucleus OS has evolved toward a single goal: empowering embedded software developers to do their work quickly and easily, with the best technology, the most confidence and the least hassle. Now the EDGE Developer Suite offers a new generation of design and development tools aimed at making embedded developers lives easier. The Inflexion Platform, the newest addition to Mentor s product family, provides a dynamic and robust user interface for full-feature handsets and cellular devices. Philosophy Figure 1 - EDGE Developer Suite Block Diagram Mentor Graphics has a simple philosophy; it is to make your life easier with its flexible and cost effective business model and diversified IP. We want to help you make the most of your time by allowing you to focus on your core competencies. Our ecosystem of products and solutions separates us leaps and bounds from the competition. Providing the hardware IP, modeling tools, industrial strength development tools, application platforms and, of course, the ubiquitous Nucleus OS, no one else in the industry can make this claim. With unmatched disparate solutions, Mentor s focus is to facilitate the management of complexity while mitigating risk so that you can deliver your products with confidence.

2 Business and Pricing Model No fear, uncertainty, or doubt when it comes to our business and pricing model. You will know upfront what you and your down-line customers costs will be. Just as our source code with a no-royalties philosophy for our OS, we view tools in the same light. Unlike other companies who charge a premium for development tools, we feel that tools are a necessary component that enables you to do what you do best, which is to deliver your products to market faster and more efficiently than your competitors. Therefore, we have integrated all of the applicable tools required into one dynamic environment. We call this suite the EDGE Developer Suite! The EDGE Developer Suite is 5 th generation technology, tightly integrated into the Eclipse framework, giving you the flexibility to install an infinite array of Eclipse plug-ins. It is all remarkably priced at only $ *MAJIC-LT can be optionally included, increasing the EDS price to $ EDGE Developer Suite EDGE IDE EDGE Debugger EDGE SimTest EDGE Profiler EDGE C/C++ Compiler EDGE MAJIC JTAG Probe* EDGE IDE Use a common interface for all your tools. All components of the EDGE Developer Suite share the same Eclipse-based user interface. You only have to learn it once. Plug in your own compiler. Switching compilers is often not an option for projects with legacy code. EDGE IDE supports multiple toolsets and makes it easy to add support for your own tools. Use tools built for embedded development. The EDGE IDE s project management tools are designed for complex embedded applications, with known good settings, project templates and support for multiple targets and multiple toolsets built in. Don t settle for an inferior editor. Code completion, syntax highlighting and tool tips are essential for working with a complex code base. The EDGE IDE s code editor offers all that, plus support for custom data display in the editor during debugging. Plug in version control. The EDGE IDE supports all of the industry standard source code versioning systems, including CVS, Subversion and ClearCase. Extend the environment. Add your own Eclipse plug-ins to the EDGE IDE. With hundreds of plug-ins to choose from, you can extend your development environment to do just about anything like enforce coding standards and run code quality metrics. Take advantage of free plug-ins. Numerous useful Eclipse utilities are free and open source.

3 EDGE Debugger Add support for your custom hardware. The EDGE Debugger s data-driven architecture lets you describe your custom hardware in easy-to-edit XML files. You can describe all the register banks in your peripherals, allowing you to view them in the EDGE register window along with all the information you need to decipher the information. Automate debugging. The EDGE Debugger s codelet scripting language provides full access to the debugger, giving you the ability to automate complex debugging tasks. See your data in context. With codelets and debugger channels, you can display, format and log target data in whatever way suits the application whether your data is a bit field or an MPEG movie. Avoid information overload. When you need to analyze large amounts of data, the EDGE Debugger lets you tell the debugger how you want to view it. Need to monitor a variable? Pipe the values to a strip chart. Need to monitor your system over a longer period of time, but still head home at a reasonable hour? Let the EDGE Debugger pipe the relevant information to a web server, and view the status from wherever you would rather be. Automate testing. Being able to write automated tests as you develop and debug so you can run regression tests is a necessity for today s increasingly complex systems. Codelets give you this ability right in your debugging environment. Profile your system. Use the EDGE Profiler to optimize performance, fix real-time logic errors and understand the runtime behavior of your system. Standardize on Eclipse. In just a few short years, Eclipse has become the industry standard for embedded development. Start receiving the cost benefits of standardization. Get everything you need in one place. From compilers to JTAG probes, the EDGE Developer Suite is a one-stop shop for development tools. EDGE SimTest Better than hardware. Hardware is expensive, it s bulky and it breaks. Use EDGE SimTest and debug on the plane. Start right away. Don t wait for hardware. EGDE SimTest is all you need to start developing your application. Get up and running with the Nucleus OS. Just install EDGE SimTest and you already have a runtime environment for all of your Nucleus OS based development. Keep the team in synch. EDGE SimTest is great for distributed development teams. No more shipping hardware all over the place. Simplify communications I/O testing. Test communications between multiple embedded device instances with just one workstation. Take your application anywhere. Create a virtual prototype of your device and demonstrate the application for customers and stakeholders with just a laptop.

4 Test early. Start testing your application as soon as development begins. Test often. Use EDGE SimTest s Python scripting engine to automate testing. Test human interaction. EDGE SimTest s unique human-machine interface modeling technology lets you test for ergonomics and ease of use, as well as record human-device interaction sequences for automated regression testing. Buy less hardware. EDGE SimTest helps you keep hardware costs to a minimum. Simulate complex network configurations. Use EDGE SimTest to simulate Internet and wireless topologies with multiple independent embedded applications running on one or more workstations. Build a test harness that would be expensive or impractical to implement in hardware. EDGE Profiler Measure OS and application performance. Nucleus PLUS is instrumented completely when it is shipped. Find memory leaks. EDGE Profiler has a sophisticated mechanism for tracking memory usage, and notifies you of potential memory leaks. Filter events. EDGE Profiler allows you to filter out events that don t interest you on your host machine or on the embedded target. You can create, save and share Profiler event filters as files on your development machine. These functions are available without having to spend time recompiling your source code. Tune your application. EDGE Profiler lets you fine tune your application software through custom hooks. Short learning curve. Because EDGE Profiler is also based on Eclipse, it plugs into the EDGE Debugger Eclipse environment easily. Gather profiling data remotely. Since the EDGE Profiler allows debugging over Ethernet you can share profiling data between engineers. Figure 2 EDGE Developer Suite FRAMES Memory Pool

5 Microtec C/C++ Compiler Spend less time writing assembly code. Support for keywords like interrupt and asm mean that you have to write fewer hand-coded assembly modules. Put your code where it needs to be. Intelligence is built in to streamline the process of placing your code in RAM, ROM, or FLASH memory. Position-independent code and data are supported by the toolset, allowing you the flexibility to use selective loading of your code. Capitalize on optimization. The Microtec compiler tool chain uses aggressive optimization to get the most out of your processor architecture. Produce standards-compliant code. The Microtec compilers are ANSI C and C++ compliant, and support the features that engineers have come to count on. Industry expertise. The Microtec compilers have been one of the leading compiler toolsets for longer than many engineers have been in the industry. These tool chains have been developed expressly for the embedded industry, not born into the desktop compiler world and ported to an embedded environment. Generate reliable code. The tool chains incorporate our developers decades of experience, and solutions for many of the problems that we have seen along the way. Use a flexible tool chain. For the PowerPC processor family, adding support for a new variant is as easy as adding XML files describing the unique features of the new processor, and does not require a new version of the tool chain. EDGE MAJIC JTAG Probe Figure 3 - EDGE MAJIC JTAG Probe

6 Comprehensive target support. The schedule is looming and your new board is late. Your target is unique. So it is critical to your schedule and success that the tools you choose connects easily and supports every aspect of your target design with minimal effort on tools-to-target integration. You do not want to be in the tools development business. Your value is elsewhere. Get up and running fast. The start-up and initialization files provide out-of-the-box solutions for standard processor reference designs that are easily adapted to your target design details, including memory mapping, memory controller initialization and memory test programs to get your new board running quickly. A preconfigured flash programming utility supports hundreds of flash types, once you are ready to flash boot code. Use easily adaptable tools. The EDGE MAJIC probe comes with cleanly layered firmware and debugger interface software, plus a Setup Wizard and Target Support files for a wide array of processor reference designs. Add new target files for different end products. Adapt to different memory configurations with ease, different feature sets for your different applications. Support new designs plus legacy code. In addition to seamless integration with the EDGE Developer Suite, OpenDebug software is available to support a broad range of development environments, in case you need to provide support for other software environments. Create production flash programming and test scripts. EDGE MAJIC software includes a flash programming utility and scripting capability to extend its use way beyond the development phase. Consider the possibilities for target specific flash programming scripts in production, field firmware updates and maintenance. Buy EDGE MAJIC once, then firmware update to add new processors and features. EDGE MAJIC processor support is updated continuously as new processors arrive, and you get them for free as long as you maintain support. Multiple debugger APIs. EDGE MAJIC supports not only the advanced features of the Eclipse framework, but also the most popular legacy tools environments, providing a single JTAG connection for all your environments. Customized Training Expert training programs are available for both the Nucleus OS and EDGE Tools. Full-time training instructors spend individual time with you to familiarize you with the comprehensive features of our software product family. Customized on-site training is also provided all over the globe for larger engineering groups. Get 5 STAR Support and Service The Nucleus OS and EDGE tools offer the assistance of a support team that has received the Software Technical Assistance Recognition (STAR) award five times. Expert training and consulting services are also available. The expertise you need is only a phone call away.