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ADDING MULTIMEDIA Green Hills Software's Toolchain and Probes Chosen by Mobileye to Develop and Test Driver Safety Vision System-on-a-Chip.


SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Green Hills Software announced that Mobileye, a leading provider of automated driver-assistance technologies, has used Green Hills Software's MULTI MULTI Multiple (R) integrated development environment See IDE.

integrated development environment - interactive development environment
, TimeMachine(TM) 4-D debugger, optimizing compilers and hardware probes to speed the design, implementation and testing of a single-chip vision system. Combining high performance with low cost, Mobileye's EyeQ(TM) IC is a complete vision system-on-a-chip (SoC) that is set to revolutionize the mass implementation of camera-based driver-assistance systems. E[acute accent acute accent
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]Mobileye is using Green Hills Software's MULTI development environment, TimeMachine debugger and compilers for compiling, optimizing, debugging and analyzing the proprietary Mobileye vision software code embedded into the new EyeQ SoC. The company also uses the MULTI tools and Green Hills Software's probes, including the high-capacity SuperTrace(TM) probe, to manage the tests of EyeQ's two ARM9E embedded CPUs during both design and production. E[acute accent]Key reasons cited by Mobileye for choosing the Green Hills Software tools include stability, ease of use, excellent code optimization, and the ability to run on both Windows and Linux platforms. The TimeMachine debugger and MULTI development environment support the ARM processor's embedded trace buffers (ETBs) and embedded trace module (ETM (database) ETM - An active DBMS from the University of Karlsruhe. ) and multi-processor debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits.  was also particularly important as the EyeQ SoC integrates two ARM946E processors and an ETM/ETB. E[acute accent]Discussing the choice of the Green Hills Software toolchain, Mr. Elchanan Rushinek, Mobileye's vice president of engineering, comments: "We evaluated a number of tools and the MULTI toolchain, TimeMachine debugger and the Green Hills probes represented the closest match to our requirements. Support for C++ and STL (STereoLithography) A 3D printing file format created by 3D Systems for its stereolithography system. Also supported by many numerical control, rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing machines, STL provides the surface geometry of the item in triangles. , the ability to perform multi-processor debug and debug backwards in time using TimeMachine, plus good code optimization were all important factors in the selection, as was the fact that the tools run on both Windows and Linux. In addition, because the compilers, debuggers and the IDE are all intuitive, and because the tools are stable, using MULTI helped us to reduce the time spent on design and prototyping, allowing us to minimize the time it took to bring EyeQ to market." E[acute accent]He adds: "The support that we received from the Green Hills Software team from project inception and on through final testing and production ensured that we lost no time in identifying how to put the tools to work to ensure the most cost- and time-efficient project plan." E[acute accent]EyeQ, Mobileye's ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor.  implementation of its vision algorithms, is a complete vision SoC with the equivalent computing power (for this type of application) of two powerful Pentium computers at a fraction of the cost, power consumption and size. EyeQ meets automotive cabin grade qualification requirements. Agreements have already been signed with several manufacturers and Tier-1 suppliers for installation in production vehicles starting in 2007. E[acute accent]Green Hills Software's MULTI environment provides a complete, integrated development solution for embedded applications using C, C++, Embedded C++ and Ada 95. The MULTI development environment runs on Windows, Linux, or UNIX UNIX

Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics).
 hosts, and supports remote debugging to a variety of target environments. The MULTI development environment provides a direct graphical interface with all Green Hills(R) compilers, and supports multi-language development and debugging. The MULTI development environment contains all of the tools needed to debug and deploy a major programming project including: source-level debugger, project builder, event analyzer, performance profiler, run-time error checker, and non-intrusive field debugging. E[acute accent]The TimeMachine debugger provides developers the ability to run and step an application back in time after a failure occurs, allowing easy identification of its root cause. This avoids the tedious and open-ended process of trial-and-error debugging required by previous generations of temporally-challenged debuggers. The TimeMachine debugger exploits the power of Green Hills Software's SuperTrace probe. The SuperTrace probe features an exceptionally large 1Gbyte trace data storage capacity, and can operate with clock speeds in excess of 300MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. . The probe allows users to collect hundreds of millions of trace frames and significantly reduces the time taken in identifying bugs in embedded code or testing finished code on the production line.

E[acute accent]About Green Hills Software

E[acute accent]Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader for real-time operating systems and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. , velOSity microkernel (1) The part of an operating system that is specialized for the hardware it is running in. The other components of the OS interact with the microkernel in a message-based relationship and do not have to be rewritten when the OS is ported to a new platform. , compilers, MULTI and AdaMULTI integrated development environments and TimeMachine debugger 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 on the web at www.ghs.com.

E[acute accent]About Mobileye

E[acute accent]Mobileye is a leading provider of automated driver-assistance technologies to the automotive industry. Founded in 1999, the company has established itself as the leader in vision systems for ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems), and gained recognition from the leading automotive companies worldwide. E[acute accent]Mobileye's mission is to develop vision systems for accident reduction and driver assistance. These systems work as a "third" eye for the driver. Applications support the driver in performing some of the routine driving tasks (e.g., distance keeping, adaptive cruise control An automotive cruise control system that automatically slows down the car if it is moving too close to the vehicle in front of it. A radar or laser unit located behind the grille determines the speed and distance of the vehicle in front. ) and also provide timely warnings (e.g., lane departure warning See lane departure system. , forward collision warning Some modern vehicles have forward collision warning (FCW, FCWS) systems, also known as front collision warning systems, collision warning systems (CWS) and rear end collision warning systems. ) in dangerous situations. E[acute accent]Studies in the U.S. and Europe have shown that providing an early warning in case of an imminent crash can dramatically reduce accidents and casualties. However, the high price of standard systems available today (based on Radar and Lidar (LIght Detection And Ranging) A method of measuring atmospheric conditions including temperature and wind. Lidar works by transmitting laser signals using all light ranges (ultraviolet, visible, infrared) and amplifying the light that is scattered back through  sensors) and their limited performance has hindered their widespread adoption in the market.

E[acute accent]Green Hills Software, the Green Hills Software logo, MULTI and INTEGRITY are registered trademarks. SuperTrace Probe, EventAnalyzer, ResourceAnalyzer, TimeMachine and AdaMULTI are trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. All other trademarks (registered or otherwise) are the property of their respective companies. Brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.

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 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.

E[acute accent]International Sales Contact: Green Hills Software Ltd., Dolphin House, St. Peter Street, Winchester Hampshire SO23 8BW, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0)1962 829820, Fax: +44 (0)1962 890300, Email: mktg-europe@ghs.com.

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