PrismTech and Green Hills Software Announce the Smallest and Fastest Complete SCA-Compliant Software Defined Radio Operating Environment.Running on the Industry's Most Adopted 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. for SDR See software defined radio. VIENNA, Va. -- PrismTech[TM], a leading provider of advanced software platforms and tools, and Green Hills Software, Inc., the technology leader in device software optimization Device Software Optimization is a concept promoted by Wind River Systems and CMP Publications at dso.com. It refers to a set of toolchains and analysis tools to develop and debug software for embedded systems. (DSO See CSO. ) and real-time operating systems (RTOS) today announced the availability of the smallest and fastest complete Software Communications Architecture The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) is an open architecture framework that tells designers how elements of hardware and software are to operate in harmony within a software defined radio. SCA is a key element in the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). (SCA (Single Connector Attachment) An 80-pin plug and socket used to connect peripherals. With a SCSI drive, it rolls three cables (power, data channel and ID configuration) into one connector for fast installation and removal. ) compliant Software Defined Radio A wireless terminal (phone, PDA, etc.) that is reconfigurable via software. It enables wireless devices to be easily updated to new or later versions of the air interface and allows multiple interfaces to be supported. (SDR) Operating Environment (OE) running on the most secure, reliable high performance Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), INTEGRITY[TM]. PrismTech's Spectra[TM] OE was created by experienced SCA and SDR developers who combined their expertise with advanced technology and superior COTS packaging to deliver a truly next generation SDR solution. Spectra OE is SCA v2.2.2 compliant and includes a core framework, high performance embedded ORB middleware, XML parser and 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 ([R]) object services in a ground-breaking consolidated footprint of less than 2MB. Green Hills Software's royalty-free INTEGRITY is the only RTOS to date to be certified conformant to the latest IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX) An IEEE 1003.1 standard that defines the language interface between application programs and the Unix operating system. .1-2003 specification, key to supporting both the SCA v2.2 and v2.2.2 SCA API's. To date, INTEGRITY has been used on more SDR programs that depend on the SCA v2.2 and v2.2.2 interface than any other RTOS. Architected for security, reliability and performance, INTEGRITY provides the most robust foundation available for any SDR platform development. INTEGRITY provides CPU time, memory, and file system resource guarantees for critical radio applications and SDR waveforms. Its brick wall partitioning ensures that applications and waveforms always have the resources needed to run and can not corrupt other applications or waveforms that are executing. INTEGRITY's virtual device driver See VxD. (operating system) Virtual Device Driver - (VxD) A device driver under Windows 3.x/Windows 95 running as part of the kernel and thus having access to the memory of the kernel and all running processes as well as raw access to the hardware. support provides added security and re-configurability required in SDR devices. With this new announcement, PrismTech and Green Hills Software are now able to offer SDR and SCA product development teams a combination of Spectra OE with INTEGRITY, the JTRS JTRS Joint Tactical Radio System JtRS Just The Right Shoe JTRS Just the Right Size JTRS Johnson Technical Reports Server JTRS Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship JTRS Jefferson Township Rescue Squad RTOS of choice, delivering the most viable high performance, small footprint OE available for today's demanding SDR designs. PrismTech's Spectra SDR Developer Suite is also fully integrated with the Spectra OE running on INTEGRITY to provide a seamlessly integrated suite of SCA waveform modeling, code generation, test and deployment development tools. "The integrated PrismTech and Green Hills Software solutions provide the SDR community a complete COTS SCA OE with far better performance, much smaller footprint, faster time to market, and lower cost of ownership than any other home grown and multi-vendor OE currently in use," said Steve Jennis, SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul Corporate Development, PrismTech. "We're very pleased to be able to offer this complete integration with the Spectra SCA OE and model driven development tools suite to our SDR customers. This new integration is an important addition to the Green Hills Platform for Software Defined Radio and further enables our customers to get their products to market with the highest quality, shortest development time, and lowest production costs," said Dan Mender, Director of Business Development for Green Hills Software. Further information about PrismTech's Spectra OE is available from: http://www.prismtech.com/spectra and further information about Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS is available from: http://www.ghs.com/products/rtos/integrity.html. ### About PrismTech PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in the provision of state-of-the-art software platforms and tools that help developers of standards-based, carrier-class systems to: minimize time-to-market, reduce costs, and improve quality and reliability. The Company provides network infrastructure code, development tools, and services for applications from wide-scale integration to embedded Real-time systems for markets such as: Telecomm Operations Support, Defence C3I, and Software-Defined Radio. PrismTech's customers constitute an impressive list of major systems integrators, network equipment providers and other OEMs, including many Fortune Global 500 companies. PrismTech was founded in 1992 and is a privately-held group with its US operations based in Boston, MA and Saddlebrook, NJ, and European operations in the UK, Germany, Netherlands and France. For additional information about PrismTech, visit the web site at http://www.prismtech.com. 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. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY([R]) and velOSity[TM] real-time operating systems, o-velOSity[TM] microkernel, compilers, MULTI MULTI Multiple ([R]) and AdaMULTI[TM] integrated development environments and TimeMachine[TM] 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 on the web at www.ghs.com. PrismTech, the PrismTech logo and Spectra are trademarks of PrismTech. Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY, velOSity, o-velOSity, AdaMULTI and TimeMachine, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. in the U.S. and/or internationally. CORBA is a registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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