Mentor Graphics has expanded its automotive business unit by purchasing certain assets from MontaVista, LLC. Mentor claims with this purchasing it establishes as the number one commercial provider of Linux-based automotive in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) solutions.
“The integration of the MontaVista Automotive assets and Mentor Graphics automotive businesses will give us an unparalleled, industry-leading engineering team,” stated Mark Mitchell, general manager of Mentor Graphics Open Source Embedded Solutions. “Our combined Linux- and Android-based automotive infotainment platform, together with our Sourcery CodeBench development tools and our extensive professional services capability, will allow us to more closely collaborate with automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to build next-generation automotive infotainment systems.”
