Tool suite optimizes multicore performance

wwebb@opensystemsmedia.com — June 5, 2011

As multicore technology invades the embedded space, development tools vendors are updating their products to enhance the performance of multithreaded code. For example, Mentor Graphics recently announced Mentor Embedded Sourcery CodeBench, a next-generation Integrated Development Environme...

As multicore[] technology invades the embedded space, development tools vendors are updating their products to enhance the performance of multithreaded code. For example, Mentor Graphics recently announced Mentor Embedded Sourcery CodeBench, a next-generation Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on the open-source GNU toolchain. Sourcery CodeBench contains all the tools needed to build and debug embedded applications and features an IDE based on Eclipse, the Eclipse C/C++ development tools and compilers, and GNU toolchain, including an assembler, linker, runtime libraries, and source- and assembly-level debuggers.

Sourcery CodeBench includes the Mentor Embedded Sourcery System Analyzer, a specialized tool that helps developers visualize and analyze data to easily locate problem areas and improve design performance. The tool can work with large data sets, integrating and correlating multiple sets of information and creating compelling visualizations. The Mentor Embedded Sourcery CodeBench Personal Edition is available starting at $199, and the Professional Version with System Analyzer is available starting at $2,799.