Over half of current embedded-system designs run behind schedule according EETimes'"Embedded Systems Survey" making Mentor Graphics Sourcery CodeBench Virtual Edition a hit at DESIGN West 2013. By providing an integrated development environment that allow the software to be written even before a new chip is fabricated, Embedded Sourcery CodeBench Virtual Edition is claimed by Mentor to accelerate time-to-market enough to cure to the scourge of behind-schedule embedded systems designs: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog

About 58 percent of embedded systems are behind schedule according to an EETimes study.Further Reading