This combination of tools brings a unique value proposition to Green Hills and HP customers. MULTI's integration with Hewlett-Packard's ICEs provides embedded customers a robust and intuitive software/hardware debugging package. Existing Green Hills customers can use MULTI for all phases of software and hardware development because MULTI now provides complete control of HP emulators, including sophisticated trigger specification and trace display windows. HP customers can migrate to Green Hills tools, using one, easy to learn interface for all phases of embedded development.

"We are extremely pleased to be working with Green Hills Software, recognized world-wide for its optimizing C, C++ and FORTRAN compilers and superior MULTI Development Environment. HP and Green Hills Software understand the special needs of embedded systems developers and the combination of both companies' expertise bring a superior value to embedded programmers," said David Cipriani, product manager at HP's Colorado Springs division. "Green Hills Software's broad processor coverage and their multi-platform support, provide customers a comprehensive, easy-to-use software development environment."

"We recognized immediately that Hewlett-Packard is the market leader in logic analysis and in-circuit emulator solutions when we began our search for an ICE manufacturer to integrate with the MULTI Software Development Environment," said David Chandler, vice president of sales for Green Hills Software. "Because HP places so much value on having integrated hardware and software development solutions, has an outstanding reputation for high quality, and their overlapping processor coverage with our product line, we quickly decided that HP was the best choice for Green Hills. Due to increasing pressures for higher quality and also faster time to market, embedded developers want a single, yet comprehensive, software development environment to satisfy all their needs. With HP's assistance, we were able to quickly develop and integrate into MULTI, a very powerful, yet easy to use, in-circuit emulator interface that will exceed the expectations of even the most demanding embedded developers searching for a single development environment."

MULTI provides support for many HP emulators: Motorola 680x0, Motorola 683xx, Intel 386DX/EX*, and Hitachi SH 7032/34. All HP processors probes are also supported: Motorola/IBM Power PC 603, Intel Pentium (R), Motorola 683xx and MIPS R4000. All these HP emulators and processor probes are supported with a single version of MULTI. This is a highly leverageable solution for HP and Green Hills customers. For example, a customer using Green Hills MULTI with an HP Motorola 68020 emulator, can upgrade to a new HP processor probe, and use the same version of MULTI. Using the same interface allows customers to focus on embedded design, saving time, and getting the product to market quicker, not on learning a new tool.

MULTI's ICE graphical user interface support includes a memory map window and several windows for emulator analyzer control including trigger specification and trace display. Customers can easily set trigger conditions, or create customized trigger locations. Users also can easily configure the size of the trace buffer or create trace displays for source lines or specific events. The HP Deep Analyzer (HP 64794) is fully supported. MULTI's debugger window shows timing information which can be displayed at source or assembly level. In addition, MULTI displays unexecuted lines of code with the code coverage analyzer. All of the emulator specific debug windows are accessible and can be used anywhere in the MULTI Software Development Environment.

For sales information on Green Hills Software's products, please call 1-805-965-6044 or email inquiries to sales@ghs.com.