Athena Technologies Selects Green Hills Software's MULTI 2000 IDE for Advanced Flight Control and Navigation System.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers COTScon Booth No. 320 SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2001 Advanced Debugger Capabilities and Strong Support Keys To Selection Green Hills Software Inc. today announced that Athena Technologies Athena Technologies is a developer and manufacturer of control and navigation solutions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs). Athena's GuideStar product line provides INS/GPS solutions that integrate IMU, GPS, magnetometer and air data signals for selected its MULTI MULTI Multiple (R) 2000 Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) to develop flight control and navigation system A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. software for its GuideStar GS-111 advanced flight control system. Equipped with Global Positioning System Global Positioning System: see navigation satellite. Global Positioning System (GPS) Precise satellite-based navigation and location system originally developed for U.S. military use. (GPS) technology, GuideStar is a fault-tolerant, miniature flight control system that allows aircraft and ground vehicles to monitor their position, flight attitude and speed relative to the Earth. GuideStar is used in a wide range of vehicles, including fixed-wing aircraft, stealthy stealth·y adj. stealth·i·er, stealth·i·est Marked by or acting with quiet, caution, and secrecy intended to avoid notice. See Synonyms at secret. turbojet turbojet: see turbine. turbojet Jet engine in which a turbine-driven compressor draws in and compresses air, forcing it into a combustion chamber into which fuel is injected. aircraft and vertical takeoff and landing Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) A flight technique in which an aircraft rises directly into the air and settles vertically onto the ground. Such aircraft do not need runways but can operate from a small pad or, in some cases, from an unprepared site. vehicles. A Motorola MPC (1) (Mobile PC) A handheld or laptop computer. See handheld computer, laptop computer and Ultra-Mobile PC. (2) (MultiPath Channel) See multipath. 555 processor powers the GuideStar system. The MULTI IDE is used to develop PowerPC software that allows GuideStar to correlate data from rotational rate sensor, accelerometers, magnetometers and a GPS receiver to determine position, speed and flight attitude of the vehicle. It utilizes position, speed and flight attitude to either autonomously navigate preplanned routes or follow a pilot's inputs. It communicates its status along with a video signal to a remote ground station. "The MULTI IDE greatly simplified the development of the high-availability code we needed for our GuideStar system," said Chris Brown, software engineer for Athena Technologies. "The MULTI debugger's tight integration with the 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. and its support for task-level debugging were particularly helpful." "Excellent service was also a key factor in our selection of Green Hills Software," added Leslie Farkas, software engineer with Athena Technologies. "In addition to assisting us in developing bootstrap See boot. (operating system, compiler) bootstrap - To load and initialise the operating system on a computer. Normally abbreviated to "boot". From the curious expression "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", one of the legendary feats of Baron von Munchhausen. code, Green Hills provided a new 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. server before it was released to the general public." "The MULTI IDE is fast emerging as the preferred development environment for high-availability applications like GuideStar," added John Carbone, vice president of marketing for Green Hills. "MULTI is designed from the ground up to support the large programming teams working on high-availability applications like navigation systems, and its advanced RTOS integration makes it the preferred choice for high-availability applications." MULTI, together with Green Hills Software's family of optimizing C, C++, EC++ and Ada95 compilers, automates all aspects of embedded software development. Featuring a window-oriented editor, source-level debugger, graphical program builder and run-time error checker, MULTI also includes a version control system, instruction set simulator An Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) is a simulation model, usually, but by no means always, coded in a high-level language, which mimics the behavior of a mainframe or microprocessor by "reading" instructions and maintaining internal variables which represent the processor's , performance profiler and real-time EventAnalyzer(TM). The heart of the MULTI IDE is the MULTI source-level debugger. The debugger supports process- and system-level debug, provides a separate window for each process, supports mixed assembly and high-level language formats, and includes a language-sensitive expression evaluator. The MULTI debugger also features incremental debug capability, a graphical memory viewer and specialized support for C++, including an object oriented class browser, namespace A collection of names for a particular purpose. Typically, each name is unique. For example, tables in a relational database must all have unique names. A Windows workgroup that uses the original NetBIOS naming system requires a different "made-up" name for each computer and printer in support, and C++ function navigation. MULTI's debugger is fully RTOS aware, which enables designers working with advanced RTOSes like INTEGRITY(TM) and ThreadX(R), to debug, monitor and tune their applications at the task level. MULTI 2000 for Windows is priced starting at $5,900 (U.S.). MULTI 2000 for Unix starts at $9,900 (U.S.). MULTI 2000 for Linux costs $5,900. All versions are immediately available. More on Green Hills Software Inc. 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. Green Hills Software's royalty-free INTEGRITY(TM) and ThreadX(R) real-time operating systems, fully integrated with its market leading compilers and MULTI(R) Integrated Development Environment, provide a total development and run-time solution that addresses both deeply embedded and high-reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif., with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. For more information on Green Hills Software products, call 805/965-6044, email sales@ghs.com or visit us on the Web at www.ghs.com. More on Athena Technologies Inc. Athena Technologies Inc. was created in 1998 to produce a new generation of digital control systems and products based on a unique collection of patented algorithms that permit a total system dynamics management solution. This software-based adaptive control methodology exploits the modern digital computer and its ability to assess and manage events in real time. Athena's state-of-the-art control technology enables simpler control system designs that are more robust and capable than other contemporary approaches, while minimizing computer throughput and memory requirements. Athena Technologies Inc. is located in Manassas, Va. For more information on Athena Technologies Inc., contact Ben Motazed at 703/331-1068, email bmotazed@hiflight.com. Green Hills Software, the Green Hills logo, and MULTI are registered trademarks, and INTEGRITY and the Green Hills Probe are trademarks of Green Hills Software Inc. All other trademarks (registered or otherwise) are the property of their respective companies. |
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