Green Hills Software Extends Support for Analog Devices Blackfin Processor Family to Include Memory Protected INTEGRITY RTOS.BOSTON -- Best-in-Class 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. Meets Requirement of Low-Power, High-Volume Applications Green Hills Software Inc. (GHS GHS Globally Harmonized System (of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals) GHS Greenwich High School (Connecticut) GHS Green Hills Software, Inc. ), the market leader in embedded software development tools and royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced the availability of its INTEGRITY RTOS for the first three members of the Analog Devices Blackfin(R) Processor family, the ADSP-BF531, ADSP-BF532 and ADSP-BF533. This combination allows developers to take advantage of a high-reliability, high-security, memory-protected RTOS optimized for a high-performance, low-cost, low-power processor. "By integrating the INTEGRITY RTOS with Blackfin Processors, available at prices as low as $5 and incorporating both DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive and control processing capabilities, Green Hills Software and Analog Devices are enabling the development of sophisticated, reliable, low-cost devices," said Dan O'Dowd, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Green Hills Software. "The scalability and low cost of the Blackfin Processor family are a natural match to the scalability and royalty-free licensing of our INTEGRITY and velOSity RTOS solutions." "The INTEGRITY RTOS allows developers to take full advantage of the power of the Blackfin architecture," explained John Croteau, general manager, Media Platforms and Services Group, Analog Devices. "By leveraging the Blackfin memory protection capability, the INTEGRITY RTOS enables development of the most reliable and secure applications. This fulfills a key requirement in today's embedded audio, video and communications applications for which the Blackfin Processor was designed." About INTEGRITY The royalty-free and POSIX-compliant INTEGRITY RTOS provides embedded applications with total reliability and absolute security. The INTEGRITY RTOS is securely partitioned, guaranteeing each task the resources it needs to run correctly along with fully protecting the operating system and user tasks from errant and malicious code, including denial of service attacks, hackers, worms and Trojan horses. The INTEGRITY RTOS is built on Green Hills Software's small and fast velOSity microkernel. Both products share a rich set of device drivers, Board Support Packages and middleware, including, as an example, IPv4, IPv6, IPsec, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. , SSH (Secure SHell) A security protocol for logging into a remote server. SSH provides an encrypted session for transferring files and executing server programs. Also serving as a secure client/server connection for applications such as database access and e-mail, SSH supports a , Web server, CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global and graphics. The ability to migrate seamlessly between the velOSity microkernel and the INTEGRITY RTOS provides embedded software developers with unprecedented scalability. About Green Hills Software's Blackfin Solution In addition to the INTEGRITY RTOS, Green Hills Software's Blackfin development solution includes the MULTI MULTI Multiple Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE). The MULTI IDE works with both Green Hills Software's C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ optimizing compilers, optimized for general purpose processing, and the Analog Devices VisualDSP++(R) C/C++ compilers, which are optimized for DSP algorithms. The MULTI IDE features an RTOS-aware source-level debugger, run-time error checker, version control system, performance profiler and real-time event analyzer. With the MULTI 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 engineers can develop and test Blackfin code on a PC, 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). workstation without the need for the target hardware. Green Hills Software also provides two hardware assisted debugging solutions, the Slingshot (networking, business, tool, product, protocol) Slingshot - CSK Software's real time financial server for the Internet. Slingshot allows the delivery of real time market data across the Internet and private intranets quickly, cheaply and securely. debug device for easy connection to target hardware and the Green Hills Probe for high-performance download and debug. About Analog Devices Blackfin Processor Family The Analog Devices Blackfin Processor family combines a 32-bit RISC-like instruction set with 16-bit dual multiply accumulate (MAC) signal processing functionality with ease-of-use attributes found in general-purpose microcontrollers. Dynamic Power Management enables breakthrough power consumption by allowing the simultaneous adjustment of operating frequency and voltage under application control. For more information, visit www.analog.com/blackfin. Pricing & Availability Development licenses start at $9,500 for the royalty-free velOSity microkernel and at $15,000 for the royalty-free INTEGRITY RTOS. The velOSity microkernel for Blackfin Processors is available today and the INTEGRITY RTOS for Blackfin Processors will be available in the fourth quarter of 2004. About 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. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY RTOS, 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, Calif., with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit us on the Web at www.ghs.com. Green Hills Software, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY, AdaMULTI and TimeMachine, Green Hills Probe and Slingshot probe are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software Inc. in the United States and/or internationally. All other trademarks and products are the property of their respective owners. North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Sales Contact: Green Hills Software Inc., 30 W. Sola St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Tel: 805-965-6044, Fax: 805-965-6343, Web site: www.ghs.com, e-mail: sales@ghs.com. 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, e-mail: mktg-europe@ghs.com. |
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