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Freescale Chooses Green Hills Software’s
Development Tools for New Automotive Microcontrollers
Industry Leaders Already Developing Software for Safety, Gateway
and Instrument Cluster Controllers
SANTA BARBARA, CA—May 5, 2009 — Green Hills Software,
Inc., the world leader in certified safe
and secure real-time operating systems (RTOS) and device software
optimization (DSO), today announced the successful launch of optimized
software products that support automotive microcontrollers (MCUs) jointly
developed with Freescale Semiconductor based on the Power Architecture® technology.
Leading automotive carmakers and tier 1 suppliers in North America and
Europe now use Green Hills Software's MULTI® integrated
development environment (IDE), optimizing
C/C++ compilers and high-speed hardware
probes to reduce their cost and time-to-market while creating small-footprint,
high-performance production and high-quality software for airbags, gateways,
brakes, low-end engines and entry-level instrument clusters.
Leading Customers Choose Green Hills Software
TRW Automotive, a global leader in automotive safety, produces advanced
active systems in braking, steering, suspension and sophisticated occupant
safety systems, including airbags, seat belts and steering wheels.
Jim Pawloski, global chief engineer at TRW states, "We carefully benchmarked
and evaluated different processor and software tools configurations
for our next-generation airbag crash sensor ECU. We selected the Freescale
- Green Hills solution, because they clearly provided us superior performance
at a competitive cost."
Freescale Chooses Green Hills Software
Carmakers and their tier 1 suppliers throughout the world have sold millions
of automobiles and trucks with embedded controllers running software
built with Green Hills Software's tools, because they help satisfy
stringent software quality, performance, and cost-efficiency requirements.
"Green Hills delivers exceptional code efficiency with its Power
Architecture compilers and toolchain - a key ingredient for the success
of our MPC56xx Power Architecture microcontroller families," said
Ray Cornyn, director of automotive microcontrollers at Freescale Semiconductor. "We
are pleased that mutual customers are seeing outstanding performance
and minimal footprint from the combination of the Green Hills software
and our MPC56xx MCUs."
Freescale chose Green Hills Software as a key software launch partner
for the MPC560x and MPC563x MCU families. The MULTI IDE and high-speed
Nexus hardware probes for the jointly developed automotive 32-bit MCUs
includes several automotive-tuned technologies and services, including:
- Optimizing C/C++ Compilers—With over 15 years
of compiler and linker technology advances, Green Hills Software compilers
produce the smallest and fastest code for Power Architecture technology
according to benchmarks certified by the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark
Consortium (EEMBC). In fact, manufacturers of Power Architecture processors
have chosen Green Hills Software's compilers four times more often
than all other competing compilers combined when certifying their highest
performance benchmark results through EEMBC.
For the jointly developed
MCUs, Green Hills used its advanced technologies to develop specific
optimizations, including CodeFactor link time optimization, pipeline
scheduling and automatic SDA (small data area) optimizations.
- Production Quality Code—The MULTI IDE’s
MISRA C Checker enables software teams to check and enforce good coding
practices against the MISRA C (Motor Industry Software Reliability
Association) standard at compile and run-time. In addition, the DoubleCheck™ integrated
source code analysis tool deeply inspects code in a unique "single-pass,
whole program" approach.
- High Speed Nexus Probes—Hardware debug devices
connect MULTI to the Nexus port and provide fast run control, reliable
debugging, trace gathering, flash programming and system visibility.
- Frozen Branch Support—For over 26 years, Green
Hills has offered custom "high-touch" technical support to
select automotive customers such as Ford and Toyota. Frozen Branch
Support enables customers to maintain a private and unique branch of
a release of the Green Hills products for 10 years or more.
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. In 2008, the Green Hills
INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified
by the NSA to EAL6+ High Robustness, the highest level of security ever
achieved. Our INTEGRITY® and velOSity™ real-time
operating systems, µ-velOSity™ microkernel, compilers, IPv6-ready
TCP/IP networking stacks, GateD® Layer 2 switching
and Layer 3 routing, MULTI® and AdaMULTI™ integrated
development environments, DoubleCheck™ integrated
static analyzer 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.
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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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