Mentor Graphics is a large company in the sector, and it has been using Linux for some time in its projects. One of those projects is the well-known Embedded Linux Mentor, a marketable, expandable and customizable embedded platform to quickly and efficiently scale productivity teams. It is based on the Yocto project, an industry standard, providing a good solution for various industries, such as commercial, medical, military and communication networks.
Además Mentor Graphics ha estado desde 2015 colaborando con AMD para proporcionar mejoras en estas herramientas integradas con Linux y procesadores AMD basados en ARM de 64 bits (concretamente basados en la ISA ARMv8-A). La colaboración entre ambas compañías no era algo nuevo, ambas ya colaboraron en otros proyectos como el de 2014 para crear un ecosistema de software para desarrollar potentes herramientas en C/C++ de código abierto para arquitecturas heterogéneas basadas en chips AMD. Ya sabes que el futuro, o mejor dicho, el presente, de la computación es heterogéneo…
These associations lead Mentor to be a leader and bring Linux to a multitude of industrial or consumer devices that many use every day and do not know that they work thanks to the penguin system. Linux, Mentor and AMD, three fundamental pillars for increasing productivity and quality in this type of products that need microcontrollers and microprocessors for RTOS (robotics), bare metal, Linux-based applications, etc.
By the way, if you don't know what they are embedded or embedded (embedded), are integrated systems, basically a small reduced computer to work within a mechanical or electrical system. These types of systems use RTC real-time operating systems, and although Linux does not normally work in this way, it can work in Real-time mode. And what devices are they on? Well, from industrial production machines, robots, MP3 players, digital clocks, traffic lights, vehicles, airplanes, printers, GPS, appliances, consoles, cameras, electric motors, stability control systems, traction control systems, ABS systems, military and medical equipment, etc.