WILSONVILLE, Ore., May 20, 2014  – Men­tor Gra­phics Cor­po­ra­ti­on (NASDAQ: MENT) today announ­ced the avai­la­bi­li­ty of Men­tor® Embedded soft­ware for the new 2^nd Gene­ra­ti­on AMD Embedded R‑Series APU (pre­vious­ly code­na­med: “Bald Eagle”). As gold-level mem­bers of The Linux Foundation’s Yoc­to Pro­ject, both AMD and Men­tor Gra­phics have ente­red into a mul­ti-year agree­ment to pro­vi­de embedded deve­lo­pers with a com­pre­hen­si­ve embedded Linux® and deve­lo­p­ment tools solution.

Embedded deve­lo­pers are able to imme­dia­te­ly begin their eva­lua­ti­on, pro­to­ty­p­ing, and deve­lo­p­ment today by down­loa­ding Men­tor Embedded Linux Lite and Sourcery’ Code­Bench Lite pro­ducts, both tail­o­red for the new 2^nd Gene­ra­ti­on AMD Embedded R‑Series APUs. Addi­tio­nal­ly, tho­se deve­lo­pers who requi­re sup­port, com­mer­cial busi­ness terms, enhan­ced deve­lo­p­ment expe­ri­ence, or cus­to­miza­ti­on ser­vices can easi­ly migra­te to com­mer­cial ver­si­ons of the Men­tor Embedded Linux and/or Sourcery Code­Bench Pro­fes­sio­nal tools.

“AMD embedded cus­to­mers will be able to crea­te inno­va­ti­ve pro­ducts with ease and relia­bi­li­ty with our open-source deve­lo­p­ment eco­sys­tem and Mentor’s mar­ket-lea­ding embedded soft­ware solu­ti­ons,” sta­ted Kamal Khou­ri, direc­tor of pro­duct manage­ment and mar­ke­ting, AMD Embedded Solu­ti­ons. “The growth in open source embedded Linux and hete­ro­ge­neous mul­ti-core pro­ces­sing tech­no­lo­gy like our new 2^nd Gene­ra­ti­on AMD R‑Series APUs enables embedded design engi­neers to acce­le­ra­te pro­duct deve­lo­p­ment schedules.”

Men­tor Embedded Soft­ware Offe­rings for the 2^nd Gene­ra­ti­on AMD Embedded R‑Series APU
Men­tor Gra­phics is pro­vi­ding the fol­lo­wing soft­ware down­loads for the 2^nd Gene­ra­ti­on AMD R‑Series APUs via its web­site: http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/partners/amd

• Men­tor Embedded Linux Lite: A free, unsup­port­ed deri­va­ti­on from Men­tor Embedded Linux pre­con­fi­gu­red for sel­ect AMD embedded tar­gets that includes pre-built bina­ry images, Linux ker­nel and board sup­port packa­ge, a Yoc­to Pro­ject-based build sys­tem, sel­ect user space packages.
• Sourcery Code­Bench Lite: A free com­mand-line based deve­lo­p­ment tool chain for embedded C/C++ that includes GNU C and C++ com­pi­lers, GNU assem­bler and lin­ker, GNU debug­ger and C and C++ run­time libraries.

Men­tor Embedded Linux Lite soft­ware will also be pre-loa­ded on the 2^nd Gene­ra­ti­on AMD R‑Series APU eva­lua­ti­on boards, allo­wing embedded deve­lo­pers enjoy a posi­ti­ve out-of-the box expe­ri­ence with the abili­ty to rapidly cus­to­mi­ze and build their embedded Linux applications.

“We’­re hel­ping our cus­to­mers get to mar­ket quick­ly with mini­mal risk using powerful AMD pro­ces­sor tech­no­lo­gy and our pro­ven embedded Linux deve­lo­p­ment soft­ware,” said Kam­ran Shah, mar­ke­ting direc­tor, Men­tor Gra­phics Embedded Soft­ware Divi­si­on. “As reco­gni­zed lea­ders in open source ena­blem­ent, Men­tor is exci­ted to see cus­to­mers rea­li­ze new and advan­ced pro­duct inno­va­ti­on based on our col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with AMD.”

Men­tor Gra­phics is also hos­ting an online web­i­nar with AMD titled “Enab­ling Linux Deve­lo­p­ment on AMD G‑Series and Series Embedded Pro­ces­sors on June 19, 2014 from 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. PST. To regis­ter, go to: http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/events/amd-g-series-and-r-series-embedded-processors-and-mentor-embedded-linux-for-amd

About Men­tor Embedded
The Men­tor Gra­phics® Embedded Soft­ware Divi­si­on enables embedded deve­lo­p­ment for a varie­ty of appli­ca­ti­ons inclu­ding auto­mo­ti­ve, indus­tri­al, smart ener­gy, medi­cal devices, and con­su­mer elec­tro­nics. Embedded deve­lo­pers can crea­te sys­tems with the latest pro­ces­sors and micro-con­trol­lers with com­mer­ci­al­ly sup­port­ed and cus­to­mizable Linux based solu­ti­ons inclu­ding the indus­try lea­ding Sourcery Code­Bench and Men­tor Embedded Linux pro­ducts. For real-time con­trol, sys­tems deve­lo­pers can take advan­ta­ge of the small foot-print and low-power-capa­ble Nucleus RTOS. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit www.mentor.com/embedded.

About Men­tor Graphics
Men­tor Gra­phics Cor­po­ra­ti­on (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world lea­der in elec­tro­nic hard­ware and soft­ware design solu­ti­ons, pro­vi­ding pro­ducts, con­sul­ting ser­vices and award-win­ning sup­port for the world’s most suc­cessful elec­tro­nics and semi­con­duc­tor com­pa­nies. Estab­lished in 1981, the com­pa­ny repor­ted reve­nues over the last 12 months in excess of $1.15 bil­li­on. Cor­po­ra­te head­quar­ters are loca­ted at 8005 S.W. Boeck­man Road, Wil­son­ville, Ore­gon 97070–7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.

Men­tor Gra­phics and Men­tor are regis­tered trade­marks and Sourcery is a trade­mark of Men­tor Gra­phics Cor­po­ra­ti­on. All other com­pa­ny or pro­duct names are the regis­tered trade­marks or trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve owner.

The regis­tered trade­mark Linux® is used pur­su­ant to a sub­li­cen­se from LMI, the exclu­si­ve licen­see of Linus Tor­valds, owner of the mark on a world­wi­de basis.