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Swell Software Adopts DoubleCheck
Green Hills Software’s Source Code Analysis Tool Increases
Software Quality
SANTA BARBARA, CA—September 11 , 2007—Green Hills
Software, Inc., the technology leader in device software optimization
(DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS),
and Swell Software, a leading supplier of graphics software for embedded
systems, today announced that Swell Software has adopted the Green Hills
Software DoubleCheck™ source code analysis tool suite to help ensure
the highest level of quality for Swell Software’s products.
“We have used other static analysis tools in the past and have
found DoubleCheck to be superior in terms of both accuracy and execution
time performance,” commented Ken Maxwell, president, Swell Software. “We
also have been very impressed with DoubleCheck’s integration with
the rest of the software development environment. In contrast to other
standalone source code analysis tools, DoubleCheck is a natural and intuitive
component of the Green Hills integrated development environment (IDE) MULTI®,
ensuring that it works out of the box, always handles our code, and can
be used every day by all of our software developers. Furthermore, not
only our developers appreciate what DoubleCheck does for their code quality,
but I have also seen a significant improvement in our company’s
time-to-market due to the tool’s ability to prevent flaws that
would otherwise require extensive debugging time.”
Swell Software is using DoubleCheck to help ensure the quality of graphics
software under development, including new versions of its latest PEG
Pro™ suite, used to power next-generation, high-color depth embedded
graphics applications.
“The ability to predict and prevent flaws before the software
is even executed is a key part of Green Hills Software’s multi-tiered
strategy to ensure reliability and security of electronic devices and
systems,” commented David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer,
Green Hills Software. “Integrated Static Analyzers like DoubleCheck
represent the future of software analysis technology: one tool used to
compile, locate programming errors, enable software comprehension, enforce
coding standards, and more.”
About DoubleCheck™ Source Code Analyzer
DoubleCheck builds on Green Hills Software's 25 years of compiler technology
expertise to locate software flaws that lead to security and reliability
failures in software. DoubleCheck processes the entire project's source
code to find flaws, such as buffer overflows, resource leaks, invalid
pointer references, overly complex code (as measured by metrics such
as McCabe), and violations of safe language rules such as MISRA 2004.
DoubleCheck differs from other static analysis tools by virtue of its
speedy analysis time and full integration with the integrated development
environment (IDE). Whereas other static analysis tools are relegated
to sporadic use by quality assurance teams, DoubleCheck can be enabled
by all developers all the time, ensuring that bugs are found and eradicated
as quickly as possible. Because it is integrated with the MULTI IDE,
no extra work is needed to ensure that DoubleCheck can handle even
the largest source code bases.
About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader
in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems
(RTOS) for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY® and velOSity™ real-time
operating systems, µ-velOSity™ microkernel,
compilers, MULTI® and AdaMULTI™ integrated development environments
and TimeMachine™ tool suite offer a complete development solution
that addresses both deeply embedded and high-reliability applications.
Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European
headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.
About Swell Software
Swell Software, Inc. provides customers with high quality graphics software
and GUI development tools that significantly reduce development time.
Swell Software was founded in 1997, with the mission to fill a void
in the existing software tools industry by providing a graphical user
interface (GUI) solution specifically for embedded systems. The PEG® family
of products have been licensed by hundreds of companies worldwide and
PEG technology is running in thousands of embedded systems across the
communications, medical, industrial and consumer electronics markets.
Swell Software is located in Port Huron, MI (one hour northeast of
Detroit) on the beautiful shores of Lake Huron. Visit Swell Software
at www.swellsoftware.com.
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North American Sales Contact:
Green Hills Software, Inc.
30 West Sola Street,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101,
Tel: 805-965-6044
Fax: 805-965-6343
Website: www.ghs.com
Email: sales@ghs.com
Media Contacts:
Green Hills Software, Inc.
Barbel French
Tel: 805-965-6044
Email: bfrench@ghs.com
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International Sales Contact:
Green Hills Software Ltd.
Fleming Business Centre
Leigh Road
Eastleigh
Hampshire SO50 9PD
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)2380 649660
Fax: +44 (0)2380 649661
Email: mktg-europe@ghs.com
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