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Green Hills Software Announces Formation of Software Performance Division

Accelerating Software Performance up to 12X Faster


SANTA BARBARA, CA – December 10, 2008 — Green Hills Software, Inc, the technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS) for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems, today announced that it has formed a new division, Software Acceleration. Software Acceleration will provide consulting services, leveraging the company’s extensive software performance engineering expertise, to make products run faster, use less power, and require less memory. Software Acceleration utilizes an extensive library of advanced profiling and optimization tools, combined with expert application methodology, to ensure success - backed by a Software Performance Guarantee™.

"We have been focused on making programs run faster for over 25 years," stated Dan O’Dowd, founder and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software. "We have accumulated hundreds of years of experience in software acceleration. There’s not a program I have ever seen that we cannot make run at least 20% faster. We are so confident that we are willing to back our promise with a money back guarantee, unheard of in the industry."


#1 on EEMBC Benchmarks

Green Hills Software has the top 43 of 44 places for all 32-bit and 64-bit microprocessors for all EEMBC (Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium) categories for out-of-the-box EEMBC benchmark performance results. Green Hills Software has been selected more than all other companies combined (including Wind River, GNU and Microsoft) for use on out-of-the box EEMBC benchmark performance results. The EEMBC benchmark programs are comprised of real-world applications from the automotive, consumer, networking, office automation, and telecom industries. Thus, the benchmarks reflect the demands typically found in production embedded systems (as opposed to the Dhrystone benchmark MIPS). The same expertise that allowed Green Hills Software to consistently score #1 on EEMBC benchmark programs will now be available to customers’ software to maximize their software performance.

"Given today’s time-to-market and functionality demands, software acceleration often gets the short end of the stick, leaving projects scrambling to meet performance and resource requirements," said Markus Levy, president of EEMBC. "We applaud the launch of this initiative, and perhaps the launch of a new industry, focused on helping product developers reach the performance potential of their product designs."

Leading the new Green Hills Software division is Larry Luke, vice president of sales, a seasoned industry executive. His past experience includes over 12 years in management and sales positions of development services for embedded hardware and software products.

"We offer a truly unique value proposition," stated Larry Luke. "I have been helping customers design and develop hardware and software for many years. Optimization is something that typically happens at the very end of the development cycle, or not at all, and it is usually performed by the same people who developed the software. In some projects, features do not get implemented because the systems are just too slow. We bring tools and expertise that are specialized for software performance engineering with a few hundred years of collective experience. On top of it all, we back our work with our Software Performance Guarantee."


Software Performance Guarantee

Customers receive a contractual guarantee in which the customer does not pay unless the agreed upon performance objectives are met.

Typical opportunities for software performance acceleration include optimizing packets per second, reducing communications latency, increasing printed pages per minute, increasing MIPS per milliwatt, and even reducing channel change times or media deletion times on a set-top box or digital video recorder.


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, compilers, IPv6-ready TCP/IP networking stacks, GateD® Layer2 switching and Layer 3 routing, 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.


Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY, velOSity, µ-velOSity, DoubleCheck and TimeMachine, Software Acceleration, Software Performance Guarantee are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. in the U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.


 
North American Sales Contact:
Green Hills Software, Inc.
30 West Sola Street,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101,
Tel: 805-965-6044
Fax: 805-965-6343
Website: www.ghs.com
Email: sales@ghs.com
International Sales Contact:
Green Hills Software Ltd
Fleming Business Centre
Leigh Road
Eastleigh
Hampshire SO50 9PD
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)2380 649660
Fax: +44 (0)2380 649661
Email: mktg-europe@ghs.com
Media Contacts:
Green Hills Software, Inc.
Barbel French
Tel: 805-965-6044
Email: bfrench@ghs.com
Software Acceleration
11440 West Bernardo Court
San Diego, CA 92127
Tel: 877-677-7734
Website: www.softwareacceleration.com
Email: info@softwareacceleration.com