There's no going back now: Standards based open APIs drive innovation, collaboration and cooperation

摘要

Gone are the days when a microcontroller manufacturer had a captive market for its own, often expensive, tools to support its products. Nowadays, they are more likely to give away the software as Eclipse plug-ins, or offer a range of software tools, from free to expensive, according to the users needs. As the applications spectrum widens, links with other tools suppliers become more important, thus Mentor Graphics has included OpenMax from the Khronos Group in the Inflexion Platform Multimedia Feature Pack for Nucleus OS.