Linux[] has been deployed as the defacto standard for a wide variety of embedded applications across virtually every market segment. Developers today are facing huge development challenges brought on by insanely short development cycles and ever-increasing hardware and software complexity driven by customer demand and competitive pressures. One of the distinguishing characteristics of embedded systems is that each is a unique combination of hardware and software components.

Mentor Embedded Linux System Builder provides the foundation for building custom platform software that includes commercial quality Linux components, IP from semiconductor manufacturers, middleware from ISVs, and in-house developed code. System Builder provides the platform developer with much more than effortless assemble-compile-deploy. System Builder offers developers significant value over open source, including easy configuration management with sane, out-of-the-box platform configurations, caching of intermediate build objects to significantly reduce build time, BOM generator for legal and regulatory compliance, software traceability from binary objects to the source archives which produced them, and an application developer kit for rapid deployment to project team members.