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Green Hills Software Announces Support for
Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs
Comprehensive Software Development Tools and Operating Systems Supporting
Virtex-5 FXT Platform's Embedded PowerPC 440 Processing Cores
SANTA BARBARA, CA —May 12, 2008—Green Hills Software,
Inc., the technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time
operating systems (RTOS), today announced the availability of its
software development solution targeting the Xilinx [NASDAQ:XLNX] Virtex®-5
FXT FPGAs with embedded PowerPC® 440 processor blocks. Components
of the Green Hills Software solution include the INTEGRITY® real-time
operating system, optimizing
C/C++ compilers for Power Architecture™, MULTI® integrated
development environment (IDE), virtual prototyping platform, DoubleCheck™ static
analyzer, and high-speed hardware debug
probes. Green Hills Software’s technologies form a co-developed
and highly integrated solution that enables system developers leveraging
the system integration capabilities of Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs to create reliable,
high-performance applications in the least amount of time and at the
lowest cost.
“Green Hills Software has supported three generations of Virtex
devices optimized for embedded processing with hardened Power Architecture
processors,” said Tom Feist, Embedded and Signal Processing Solutions,
marketing director at Xilinx, Inc. “With its reliable real-time
operating system and development tools, Green Hills Software’s
support of the Virtex-5 FXT family enables designers to integrate more
of their system components onto 65nm FPGAs while meeting, and in some
cases beating, their performance, cost, and power consumption requirements.”
“We are pleased that Xilinx selected Green Hills Software as a
leading software solutions provider for Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs,” commented
David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer, Green Hills Software. “Modern
embedded system designs place incredible performance, reliability, and
scalability demands on the software and hardware infrastructure. Green
Hills Software software technology and the Xilinx platform FPGAs meet
these demands while minimizing cost, weight, power, and space through
system integration.”
INTEGRITY for Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs
INTEGRITY represents the most advanced RTOS technology on the market
today, achieving unprecedented levels of reliability, availability,
and serviceability for applications in telecommunications, software-defined
radio, networking, automotive, consumer, medical, aerospace, and other
industries. An INTEGRITY Board Support Package (BSP) has been developed
for Virtex-5 family development boards making it extremely easy to
develop and deploy INTEGRITY-based applications while using the Xilinx
Platform Studio tool suite for embedded design.
In addition to real-time operating systems, the Green Hills software
development solution for the Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs consists of the
following components:
- MULTI integrated development environment – providing the leading
software development tool set for embedded software developers
- Green Hills Power Architecture compilers – generating the fastest
and smallest code in the industry for Power Architecture
- Green Hills Probe – providing
reliable and efficient multicore debugging using the Xilinx Virtex-5
FXT FPGA JTAG port
- DoubleCheck integrated static analyzer – increasing software
reliability and reducing time-to-market by eradicating more defects
early in the development process
- Green Hills High Speed PowerPC Virtual Prototyping Platform – providing
a powerful, flexible, and extensible simulation environment for advanced
software development
About Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs
Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs deliver the ultimate system integration platform
for applications in: wired and wireless communications, audio/video broadcast
equipment, military, aerospace, industrial systems, and many others.
The Virtex-5 FXT platform delivers the industry's first FPGAs with embedded
PowerPC 440 processor blocks, 6.5 Gbps high-speed RocketIO™ GTX
transceivers and dedicated XtremeDSP™ processing capabilities.
Comprising the fourth platform in the 65nm Virtex-5 family, Virtex-5
FXT devices deliver high performance while enabling designers to reduce
system costs, board space and component count. For more information about
Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs, please visit www.xilinx.com/virtex5fxt.
About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader
in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems
(RTOS) for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY® and velOSity™ real-time
operating systems, µ-velOSity™ microkernel, IPv6-ready
TCP/IP network stacks, GateD® layer 3 routing, compilers, MULTI® and AdaMULTI™ integrated
development environments, DoubleCheck™ integrated static analyzer
and TimeMachine™ tool
suite offer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply
embedded and high-reliability applications. Green Hills Software is
headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the
United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software on the web at www.ghs.com.
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