April 18, 2012 -- Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced the integration of its Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) with the Bluetopia protocol stack from Stonestreet One, a leading provider of Bluetooth software.The third generation of the Nucleus RTOS provides built-in power-management capabilities and connectivity features ideally suited for power sensitive, wireless communication applications. The Bluetopia stack is a flexible software tool that, when combined with the Nucleus RTOS, enables developers to create a variety of wireless communication applications with ease and reliability.

The strategic partnership between Stonestreet One and Mentor gives developers an integrated and configured solution for Bluetooth connectivity in the memory-constrained microcontroller environments. The Bluetopia solution is configured specifically for the Nucleus RTOS on the Texas Instruments' Stellaris development platform. This technology supports the full set of Bluetooth profiles from Stonestreet One, such as Bluetooth stereo audio playback and serial port profile (SPP). The Bluetopia and Nucleus RTOS, with integrated power-management services, is an ideal solution for Bluetooth-enabled, high performance, low-power connected devices such as industrial monitors, portable medical and consumer products.

"Stonestreet One, a leading provider of Bluetooth stacks, supports leading silicon partners such as TI and Freescale, which is a key reason why we chose them as a strategic partner," stated Glenn Perry, General Manager of the Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division. "The seamless integration of Bluetopia with Nucleus will help our customers deliver innovative products that require less power and provide robust connectivity, key for today's consumer devices."

The platform lets developers begin developing their value-add applications within minutes of installation by providing an integrated development environment (IDE) that consists of the Nucleus RTOS, optimized drivers/ BSP, compiler, and debugger tools. The Nucleus software features separate workflows for BSP, system, and application developers which accelerate porting applications to new hardware. The Nucleus ReadyStart product includes the Mentor Embedded Sourcery CodeBench technology, GNU-based integrated development environment (IDE), and the Mentor Embedded Inflexion UI tool for dynamic 2D/3D user interface creation.