March 7, 2006 -- Accelerated Technology, a Mentor Graphics division, today announced that the Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) is the first to support all six of Tensilica, Inc.'s new Diamond Standard processor cores. This support provides embedded developers using Diamond Standard processors with a proven, royalty-free software environment in which to build a wide variety of applications including consumer electronics and network management systems.

"The Nucleus Plus RTOS has been the most requested RTOS by our Xtensa configurable processor customers, and we expect an even stronger reception from those using our Diamond Standard processors," stated Chris Jones, Tensilica's strategic alliances manager. "Xtensa users appreciate the efficiency of this RTOS and its ease-of-use."

The Nucleus RTOS family of products consists of a complete line of middleware products including networking, USB, graphics and file system libraries, providing everything a developer needs to quickly and easily create a wide variety of applications.

"This new family should be particularly interesting for embedded designers building portable devices, as the power requirements are the lowest around for 32-bit processors," said Glen Johnson, Product Marketing Manager, Accelerated Technology.

Tensilica's Diamond Standard processor family includes six cores, all of which lead the industry in their respective categories both in lowest power and highest performance. The processor family is based on Tensilica's proven Xtensa configurable and extensible processor architecture.

Pricing and Availability

The Nucleus embedded software is sold with source code and without royalty fees. Licenses for the Nucleus software begin at $12,495.