San Francisco, CA. Embedded Systems Conference. April 10, 2001 - Green Hills Software, Inc. today announced that Venture Development Corporation (VDC) a prominent technology market research company, has again named Green Hills Software the number one supplier of unbundled embedded software development tools worldwide. The February, 2001 VDC report, entitled "The World Market for Embedded Operating Systems and Software Development Tools," tracks worldwide shipments of embedded operating systems and development tools in 2000, with forecasts through 2005.

As in the 1999 report, the 2001 VDC report ranks Green Hills Software first among suppliers of unbundled embedded software development tools, including compilers and debuggers. In the worldwide market for debuggers, Green Hills Software topped all competitors with its MULTI® 2000 product offering, including Wind River Systems. Green Hills Software was also far and away the leader in compiler shipments, besting its closest competition by a significant margin.

"Our research again shows Green Hills Software to be the dominant compiler and debugger company in the embedded marketplace," said Chris Lanfear, project manager for VDC's Embedded Systems Research Group. "We attribute this to the company's extensive tool chain and wide range of applications and processors supported. Green Hills remains the leading third party software development tools supplier according to this year's report. Developers continue to be impressed with the performance and ease-of-use of Green Hills' compilers and development tools."

"This represents the second consecutive report recognizing Green Hills as #1 in these three areas," said John Carbone, Green Hills' vice president of marketing. "The 2001 VDC report proves that Green Hills Software is far and away the number one supplier of compilers and software development tools for the embedded market, and that our lead is increasing."

"We expect to extend our leadership into 2001 and beyond by offering bundled, royalty-free solutions that provide versatile RTOS options, higher level design capabilities, integrated web connectivity, and broad communications functionality. In particular, as the industry moves toward a royalty free model, we believe that bundled solutions combining the MULTI IDE with our royalty-free INTEGRITY® and ThreadX® RTOSes will provide formidable competition for Tornado/VxWorks bundles. The versatility of our RTOS offerings also gives us a leg up on Tornado and VxWorks, with ThreadX providing a more efficient solution for deeply embedded applications, and INTEGRITY providing a more reliable solution (five nines plus) for high-availability and safety-critical applications like aerospace and telecommunications."

Green Hills' MULTI® 2000 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) automates all aspects of embedded software development and optimization. The MULTI tool chain features a family of optimizing compilers, window-oriented text editor, RTOS-aware source-level debugger, instruction set simulator, performance profiler, project builder, run-time error checker, graphical browser, and version control system.

MULTI's optimizing compilers, available for C, C++, Embedded C++, Ada 95, and FORTRAN programming languages, support all major 32-bit and 64-bit advanced microprocessor families, including those from Intel, Motorola, ARM, MIPS Technologies, Hitachi, NEC, and Infineon. Green Hills' compilers have taken top honors in all of the test results released by the EDN Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) to date.

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Incorporated in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc., is a leading supplier of royalty-free real-time operating systems and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Green Hills solutions include the royalty-free INTEGRITY® and ThreadX® real-time operating systems, fully integrated with its market leading compilers and MULTI® Integrated Development Environment, and provide a total development and run-time solution that addresses both deeply embedded and maximum reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. For more information on Green Hills Software products, please call 1-805-965-6044 or email inquiries to sales@ghs.com. http://www.ghs.com.