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| Green Hills Platform for Medical Devices | |||||||||||||
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With lives dependent on their reliable operation, these devices have strict safety requirements as well as stringent security needs due to the sensitive patient data they store. Software that controls medical devices must go through stringent testing to ensure maximum safety and reliability. As a result, development and deployment of medical device software is usually time-consuming and expensive. Device manufacturers face a daunting challenge: they must balance the integration of new technology without compromising requirements for product safety and reliability and still get their product to market as quickly as possible. Green Hills Software's Platform for Medical Devices addresses these key issues by providing a complete software development solution that can help you increase productivity and drastically reduce development cost, per-unit cost, program risk, and product time-to-market. At the center of the Platform is Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS, which is fully integrated with a complete range of feature-rich middleware components for interaction with other applications and systems in the medical device environment. The Green Hills solution includes the following tightly integrated components:
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INTEGRITY is the first RTOS to provide support for medical device applications containing software of multiple Levels of Concern running concurrently on a single microprocessor. Medical device software modules are typically categorized as being of a Major, Moderate, or Minor Level of Concern based on the potential effect that software failures or latent flaws would have on the patient, operator, or bystander. |
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| INTEGRITY is fully integrated with a complete range of feature-rich middleware components for interaction with other applications and systems in the medical device environment. Networking support A complete suite of integrated networking and communications products is provided with INTEGRITY, including a variety of wired and wireless communications protocols as well as the latest security protocols. These protocol stacks and security components can be placed in secure software partitions with stack access given to only entitled applications.
High-performance USB solutions provide both host and device (function) support and include numerous class drivers and example applications (source code provided for stacks and drivers). File systems The framework model of INTEGRITY’s file system—commonly referred to as a virtual file system (VFS) framework—makes it easy to add and remove support for various file systems. The VFS server provides file system support for UNIX-like file systems, DOS/FAT 12/16/32, ISO 9660, Wear Leveling Flash File Systems, and others. Embedded databases INTEGRITY has integrations with several leading embedded databases to fit a variety of application needs. The database solutions for INTEGRITY range from those with extremely small footprints, to distributed databases with real time updates, to full blown SQL-compliant databases. Graphics and video support INTEGRITY offers extensive support for embedded graphics development spanning from deeply embeddable 2D graphics to the advanced 3D graphics environment via OpenGL. |
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The Green Hills Platform for Medical Devices incorporates best-in-class tools to aid in all stages of the software development life cycle.
Green Hills Software's MULTI® integrated development environment (MULTI) includes the industry's most powerful and proven tools for developing embedded software with maximum reliability, maximum performance, and minimum code size. With MULTI’s sophisticated, intuitive capabilities, you can develop, debug, and optimize code more quickly, significantly reducing both development cost and time. MULTI supports more target processors, operating systems, and third-party tools than any other IDE—making it ideal for enterprise-wide deployment. By using a common set of development tools across projects, medical device developers can share code more easily or move between projects without compromising productivity. With MULTI, you can develop code in C, C++, EC++, MISRA C, and Ada 95. Green Hills Software's TimeMachine™ Suite extends MULTI’s capabilities by enabling visual analysis of execution to improve application reliability and speed development time. Medical device developers can use these tools for code coverage testing, forward and backward debugging, performance profiling, and source-level verification. Telelogic Rhapsody® SysML/UML modeling and code generation Telelogic’s Rhapsody Model-driven Development Environment based on UML 2.0 (Unified Modeling Language) and SysML (System Modeling Language) helps software teams move from requirements through system architecture phase with advanced modeling tools. Rhapsody, built upon six proven technologies for higher productivity and higher quality software, is capable of fully modeling system architectures across any discipline and allows the execution, implementation and testing of those models in an easy push button environment. Tightly integrated with MULTI and INTEGRITY, Rhapsody can generate code for INTEGRITY-based systems from the models created with UML. You can also debug Rhapsody models side-by-side with generated source code in MULTI. Vector Software's VectorCAST™ software test and code coverage Vector Software's VectorCAST line of products reduce the burden placed on individual medical device developers by automating and standardizing application component level testing—the next generation of intelligent test tools. VectorCAST is a world class integrated software test solution that automates the tasks associated with testing software components for C/C++, Embedded C++, and Ada83/Ada95 programs. Automation includes: complete test harness construction, test generation, test execution, code coverage analysis, regression testing and static measures for code complexity and basis path analysis. |
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The Platform for Medical Devices includes comprehensive services for the medical device industry. In addition to Telelogic and Vector Software, Green Hills has partnered with HighRely, a leading consulting firm in medical device and avionics system development, to provide another layer of advisory, development, and regulatory expertise. The Platform provides the end-to-end services you need to develop highly reliable embedded software for your medical device and meet regulatory agency requirements for device approval.
Tools and RTOS support (MULTI, INTEGRITY, velOSity, Rhapsody, VectorCAST)
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