Nucleus RTOS
| Developer | Mentor Graphics |
|---|---|
| Written in | C |
| OS family | Real-time operating systems |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Closed source |
| Latest release | 3.x / September 15, 2009 |
| Available in | ? |
| Platforms | ARM, Freescale, MIPS, IBM PowerPC, Altera Nios II, Xilinx MicroBlaze, Renasas SuperH, Infineon, Atmel AT91SAM and others |
| Kernel type | Real-time kernel |
| Default user interface | ? |
| License | Proprietary |
| Official website | Nucleus RTOS |
Nucleus RTOS is a real-time operating system (RTOS) offered by the Embedded Software Division of Mentor Graphics for various central processing unit (CPU) platforms. Nucleus RTOS is embedded software and is in an estimated 2.11 billion devices worldwide.
Development is typically done on a host computer running Windows or Linux. Applications are cross compiled to run on various target CPU architectures and tested using the actual target boards or in simulation environment.
The Nucleus RTOS is designed for deeply embedded systems applications including consumer electronics, set-top boxes, cellular phones, and other portable and handheld devices. For limited memory systems Nucleus RTOS can be scaled down to a memory footprint as small as 13 KB for both code and data.
Mentor Graphics boasts Nucleus installment base of over 1.6 billion mobile devices, as of mid-February, 2010 and 2.11 billion devices as of June 2010. According to a report by an analyst firm, Nucleus has been shipped in over 2.84 billion devices as of the end of 2010.
Example devices using Nucleus products are as follows:
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