Nexus 5001^TM Forum

Founded: 1998

Board Members: Analog Devices, Delphi, dSPACE, ETAS, Freescale Semiconductor, General Motors, Green Hills Software, Infineon, Lauterbach, NEC Electronics Corporation, Samtec, and Texas Instruments

Mission: To provide an open industry standard that provides a general-purpose interface for the software development and debug of embedded processors. Standardization on this interface benefits customers' reuse of their Nexus 5001™ compliant development tools on compliant processor architectures.

Number of Members: 24 (See website for latest membership list: www.nexus5001.org/membership.html)

Mix of Members: Current members of the Nexus 5001 Forum™ represent all aspects of the technologies required for embedded control applications: embedded processor suppliers, independent tools providers, semiconductor and hardware development tool providers, and software tool providers (emulators, compilers, simulators, debuggers, measurement & calibration, RTOS's, etc.).

Classification: Non-profit

Deliverables: See Website for latest deliverables (www.nexus5001.org)

Working Groups: Technical Hardware, Technical Software, Marketing. See Website for latest active working groups (www.nexus5001.org)

Funding: Membership Dues

Benefits of Membership:

• Voting privileges for amendments to the bylaws
• Voting privileges for the specification
• Influencing content in new versions of the specification
• Favorable licensing of IP
• Membership and access to the Steering Committee
• Membership and access to the Technical Committee
• Membership and access to other special task forces or sub-committees
• Co-branding on the Web site
• Automatic mentions in press releases and official publications
• Support from the ISTO
  

Web Address: www.nexus5001.org

Tech Support Available: Yes

White Papers/Documentation Available: Yes

Training: No

Tech Focus: The Nexus 5001™ Forum Standard for a Global Embedded Processor Debug Interface is a open industry standard that has been developed to benefit data communications and computer peripherals, wireless systems, automotive powertrain applications, and other embedded control applications industries.

Partnership/Collaborations: IEEE, OCP-IP