Green Hills Software Launches Embedded Virtualization Business Unit

Embedded Software Leader Focuses on Virtualization Based on the Proven INTEGRITY Real-Time Operating System

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, BOSTON, MA — September 22, 2009—Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced its new Embedded Virtualization Business Unit, representing a significant investment and commitment to virtualization in the embedded and special-purpose computing market. The business unit’s flagship product, INTEGRITY® Secure Virtualization (ISV), supports hosting of Windows, Linux, VxWorks and other general purpose operating systems in secure virtual containers on ARM, Intel, Power and other processor architectures.

"For more than 10 years, Raytheon has been a leader delivering cross-domain security solutions to meet our customers' diverse needs," remarked Steve Hawkins, vice president of Raytheon Information Security Solutions. "Green Hills is a longtime valuable partner with Raytheon, and we are excited about the capabilities Green Hills secure virtualization will bring to our next-generation cross-domain technologies."

"The need for virtualization has grown beyond the enterprise markets with increasing adoption in traditional embedded markets such as networking, automotive, medical, industrial controls, and mobile computing," commented Dan O'Dowd, founder and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software. "Only Green Hills offers a proven secure virtualization solution. With this new corporate commitment, we are bringing the benefits of military-grade security, an open flexible architecture, small footprint and real-time performance to commercial markets."

First deployed in 2003, INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization delivers a unique hybrid architecture that extends the safety and security-certified INTEGRITY real-time operating system technology to enable safe execution of trusted real-time critical software side-by-side with untrusted applications running on general purpose operating systems.

The introduction of the Embedded Virtualization Business Unit further advances Green Hills Software’s complete software solution through industry-leading technology and expertise:

• advanced multicore development and debug tools that configure, build and analyze software in a virtualization system
• a flexible hybrid virtualization architecture supporting real-time application requirements as well as general purpose operating systems, including Linux, Windows, VxWorks and others
• a comprehensive middleware software suite providing networking, graphics and connectivity
• expert engineering services focused on complete integration and delivery to enable rapid adoption, highest reliability and fastest time-to-market

What our Partners are Saying

"Virtualization is a critical requirement for next-generation mobile devices because it enables a wide variety of proprietary and open software components to operate together in an energy-efficient manner. We are pleased that Green Hills Software is bringing its high reliability INTEGRITY virtualization technology to the ARM architecture and processors."

Mike Inglis, executive vice president and general manager, Processor Division, ARM

"Freescale's QorIQ™ product family sets the standard for highly advanced, integrated hardware virtualization in embedded markets. Green Hills Software’s expertise and technologies fully leverage the virtualization capabilities of QorIQ processors, helping our joint customers get the most out of their multicore designs."

Raja Tabet, vice president of Software and Enablement at Freescale Semiconductor

"Green Hills Software’s virtualization technologies complement TI’s ARM-based OMAP 3 processors by providing our customers with a powerful platform offering software flexibility and reuse as they develop a wide range of embedded applications including industrial controls, medical devices and embedded systems. The addition of secure embedded virtualization to our OMAP 3 processors enables consolidation of various operating systems and applications for unprecedented power savings while maintaining the security and reliability of the system."

Gerard Andrews, OMAP product line manager, Texas Instruments

About Green Hills Software

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by the NSA to EAL6+ High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.


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