Green Hills Software and Embedded Planet Team Up To Deliver Complete PowerPC Solutions For Communications Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2001 PowerPC Single-Board Computers Come Bundled with MULTI MULTI Multiple (R) Integrated Development Environment and Royalty-Free INTEGRITY(TM) 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. Green Hills Software and Embedded Planet today announced the availability of complete PowerPC embedded solutions combining Embedded Planet's PowerPC based Refers to a computer that uses PowerPC chips. See PowerPC and PowerPC-based Mac. single-board computers with Green Hills' MULTI Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment and INTEGRITY real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. . This bundled solution, now available directly from Green Hills Software, provides a compact, low-cost, high-availability platform that makes it easy to develop and deploy PowerPC applications for a broad range of networking and communications equipment. Embedded Planet offers a full line of small form factor PC/104, EBX EBX Electronic Book Exchange (XML standard) EBX Embedded Board Expandable (PC/104) EBX Electronic Branch Exchange EBX Enterprise Business eXtension (Orchestra Networks) , and credit-card-sized single-board computers based on Motorola's PowerQUICC 8xx and PowerQUICC II 82xx processors, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Microelectronics' PowerPC 405GP processors. The MULTI IDE and INTEGRITY RTOS are available for Embedded Planet's single-board computers, which are equipped with up to 128 Mbytes of DRAM, 32 Mbytes of flash memory, 512 Kbytes of non-volatile memory, Ethernet and serial interfaces. The EP8260 features both processor and local SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. , provides direct access to the PowerQUICC II 8260 processor and supports simultaneous UTOPIA and Fast Ethernet access. Embedded Planet's CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. boards also feature integrated firmware and utilities (PlanetCore) for diagnostics, burning flash, and booting the INTEGRITY RTOS, and are also available with a variety of video and multimedia I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output options. The MULTI 2000 IDE, together with Green Hills' family of optimizing C, C++, and EC++ compilers, automates all aspects of software development for the PowerPC processor. Available for Windows, Linux, Solaris and Unix host platforms, the MULTI IDE features a window-oriented editor, source-level debugger, graphical program builder, run-time error checker, version control system, performance profiler, and real-time RTOS EventAnalyzer(TM). MULTI also features an 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 that allows programmers to develop and test their PowerPC code on a PC or workstation. The INTEGRITY RTOS, tightly integrated with MULTI, is a small, scalable, memory-protected, royalty-free RTOS. Leveraging the hardware memory protection facilities of the PowerPC's Memory Management Unit (MMU (Memory Management Unit) The part of the computer that governs memory access. Either part of the CPU chip or housed on separate chips, the MMU controls memory partitions and virtual memory. See memory and virtual memory. MMU - Memory Management Unit ), INTEGRITY maximizes security and reliability by building a "firewall" between the kernel and user tasks. This firewall prevents errant or malicious tasks from corrupting user data, the kernel, interprocess communications, device drivers, and other user tasks. In addition, INTEGRITY guarantees the availability of system resources like the CPU and memory, making it far more responsive and predictable than conventional embedded operating systems. "The combination of Green Hills' MULTI IDE and INTEGRITY RTOS with Embedded Planet's PowerPC hardware will provide engineers an affordable, full featured development solution for the networking and embedded markets," said John Carbone, vice president of marketing at Green Hills Software. "A number of our customers have expressed interest in the PowerQUICC platform, particularly the 8260. This bundled solution enables engineers to start writing PowerQUICC application code with proven, integrated hardware and software right out of the box." Mark Lowdermilk, Embedded Planet 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. , commented, "Embedded Planet is excited to work with Green Hills to offer bundled PowerPC systems. These bundled solutions make it much easier for hardware and software engineering teams to work closely together, enabling OEMs to move quickly through the design, development, and deployment stages. There are real cost and time savings to this integration, especially in the networking marketplace." Pricing and Availability Embedded Planet's single-board computers can be purchased directly from Green Hills, starting at $495. MULTI 2000 for Linux and Windows costs $5,900, MULTI 2000 for HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. and Solaris costs $9,900 (U.S.). All versions are immediately available. Development licenses for the INTEGRITY RTOS, including a board support package, start at $15,000. Run-time licenses for INTEGRITY on the target system are royalty free. Complete schematics and source code for the PlanetCore firmware are also available from Embedded Planet. All products are available immediately with four weeks delivery. More on Green Hills Software Inc. Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software Inc., is a leading supplier of royalty-free real-time operating systems and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Green Hills' royalty-free INTEGRITY(TM) and ThreadX(R) real-time operating systems, fully integrated with its market leading compilers and MULTI(R)/AdaMULTI(R) (IDE), 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, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. For more information on Green Hills Software products, please call 805/965-6044 or email inquiries to sales@ghs.com. Additional information is available at www.ghs.com. About Embedded Planet Embedded Planet, founded in 1997, has pioneered the design, development and deployment of Internet infrastructure devices. The company provides small form factor, low cost computing solutions for Motorola's PowerPC 823, 823e, 850, 855, 860, 8255 and 8260 processors as well as the IBM's PowerPC 405GP. Each computing engine includes firmware (PlanetCore) and utilities for burning flash, booting the target operating system, setup, and diagnostics. Embedded Planet also manufactures a comprehensive line of I/O modules, firmware and peripherals, provides system design work, offers access to Embedded Planet intellectual property, and offers development services for both component and turnkey products. 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. Other trademarks are trademarks (registered or otherwise) of the respective trademark owners. |
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