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"The PowerQUICC's II's unique blend of high performance, versatile I/O and low cost makes it a superb embedded processor for a wide range of communications applications," said Green Hills president Dan O'Dowd. "Our optimizing compilers have been tuned to take full advantage of PowerQUICC II's outstanding performance and I/O capabilities. And our MULTI environment makes PowerQUICC II software development a breeze."

"We're pleased to see Green Hills continue its aggressive support for the PowerPC product line," said Cam Witt, program manager for Motorola’s PowerQUICC II family. "Engineering managers charged with developing sophisticated communications applications for PowerQUICC II will find MULTI invaluable for producing robust, production code on time and on budget."

The MPC8260 PowerQUICC II is a high-performance communications processor based on Motorola’s 32-bit EC603e, an embedded PowerPC core. Featuring a peak performance of 282 Dhrystone MIPS at 200 MHz, the PowerQUICC II provides 16 kbytes each of data and instruction cache, an MMU, and an integrated debug processor that gives the MULTI debugger direct access to internal processor resources through a serial scan chain. The PowerQUICC II also features an integrated Communications Processor Module (CPM), which combines a 32-bit RISC controller with three fast communication controllers and two fast multichannel communication controllers. The CPM supports a variety of physical interfaces and data link protocols, including HDLC/SDLC, Fast Ethernet, ATM, UTOPIA, TDM, T1, CEPT, T3/E3, ISDN (Basic Rate and Primary Rate), TDM and UART.

Green Hills' MULTI environment and optimizing compilers automate every aspect of PowerQUICC II software development, including editing, source-level debugging, program building, execution profiling, and project/version control. Moreover, the MULTI Development Environment and Green Hills compilers provide a uniform set of C, C++ and assembly language development capabilities that span Windows 95, Windows NT, and Unix host platforms.

MULTI's program builder, editor, and debugger are tightly integrated to offer quick, convenient single- and double-click transfers between debug mode and full source editing. For example, simply clicking on a compiler error message brings the user to the editor, opens the file containing the error, moves the cursor to the line containing the error, and highlights the error.

Green Hills' scaleable C/C++ compiler lets programmers use switch options to select any subset of C++ they want, from bare bones C, to full-blown ANSI/ISO C++. The compiler also supports Embedded C++ (EC++), a dialect of C++ optimized for resource-constrained embedded applications that achieves the efficiency of C while preserving many of the best object-oriented features of C++.

Code that has been compiled for the MPC8260 PowerQUICC II can run on the target hardware in a bare bones mode, under Wind River Systems' VxWorks operating system, under custom real-time operating systems, under a variety of processor-specific in-circuit emulators (ICEs), and on targets that support on-chip debugging facilities.

The PowerQUICC II MULTI Development Environment is available on Windows NT or Windows 95, and Unix. For pricing information call Green Hills Software (805) 965-6044 or email sales@ghs.com.

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Incorporated in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc., is a leading supplier of software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Green Hills offers a family of optimizing Ada, C, C++, FORTRAN and Pascal compilers. The company also offers a software development environment known as MULTI that automates the compile-edit-build-debug cycle by integrating advanced facilities such as an RTOS-aware source-level debugger, profiler, program builder and source code control system.

Green Hills' tools support all major advanced microprocessor families and target environments, including instruction set simulators, ROM Monitors, commercial and home grown real-time operating systems (RTOS) and in-circuit emulators (ICE).

Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA., and has offices in Lexington, MA., Raleigh, N.C., King of Prussia, PA, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, Palm Harbor, FL., Denver, CO, Scotts Valley, CA, Cupertino, CA, San Clemente, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Kent, U.K., Amsterdam, Netherlands, Munich, Germany and Paris, France.