Mentor Graphics announced its acquisition of Embedded Alley Solutions as a key component of its Android and embedded-Linux strategy last month at the Design Automation Conference in San Francisco. Mentor also announced the integration of its Nucleus graphical-user-interface tool with the ARM Mali graphics-processing unit; it announced the availability of a Linux/Nucleus operating-system combination for the Marvell Sheeva MV78200 dual-core embedded processor; and it plans to extend Embedded Alley's Android mobile-applications platform to support Freescale Semiconductor's QorIQ and PowerQUICC (quad-integrated-communications-controller) III processors.

Mentor plans to combine its Nucleus RTOS (real-time operating system) and associated tools and services with Embedded Alley's Android and Linux development systems to offer device manufacturers one source for the operating systems they need for embedded-system designs. The goal is to support Mentor's customers in supplying complete systems—not just silicon—to their own customers. 

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