SANTA BARBARA, CA — January 12, 2010 – Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions and member of the ARM® Connected Community™, today announced corporate engineering support for the ARM Solution Center for Android, a collaborative resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on Android, the open source platform from the Open Handset AllianceTM. Green Hills Software provides INTEGRITY® Secure Virtualization (ISV) coupled with a complete ecosystem of software solutions that enable developers of Android-based devices to achieve higher levels of security, reduced power consumption, faster time-to-market, and more flexible usage and licensing models. Green Hills Software will demonstrate these benefits while working with the platform, OEM, and third party software vendors within the Android Innovation Center.

As the market for smartphones, connected mobile solutions and home devices grows, so do consumers’ expectations for these devices. The ARM Solution Center for Android provides designers and developers of Android-based devices the assurance that the components used to develop these next-generation consumer electronic devices are integrated, fully functional and delivered with the reliability, security and support that are required in the mobile market.

“We are pleased to join ARM Ltd. and its partners to provide solutions optimized for Android-based devices,” said Gordon Jones, vice president of Green Hills Software’s Embedded Virtualization Business Unit. “Built on the world’s first and only Common Criteria EAL6+ operating system technology, INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization enables a range of powerful connected device use models, including multiple concurrent service provider instances and the deployment of security-critical applications sandboxed from the multimedia user environment.”

“Android was written for the ARM architecture, the leading processor architecture for Internet everywhere applications from mobile to the connected home,” said Kevin Smith, vice president of Segment Marketing, ARM. “ARM is fortunate to be able to cultivate a Partner ecosystem that ensures device manufacturers have the best development solutions at their disposal.”

About INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization

INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization consists of the certified INTEGRITY microkernel technology coupled with facilities to execute and optimally manage one or more “guest” Android operating systems on SoC’s based on ARM technology such as the multicore Cortex A9. INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization also provides a full-featured interface to deploy critical services, such as security applications, power management or fast-boot web browsers, alongside Android. For device manufacturers who want to deploy Android across classes and generations of products, INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization can provide significant cost and time-to-market savings by enabling proven distributions of Android to run on the latest hardware without porting.  In addition to its security and reliability features, INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization comes with more than a decade of tools and middleware ecosystem to help device manufacturers develop and deploy products faster.

The Solution Center for Android is accessible immediately. For more information and a full list of participating Partners please visit:
 http://www.arm.com/products/os/android.html

Please visit us at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 15 – 18, 2010, stand # 7EZ1.

About Green Hills Software

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by the NSA to EAL6+ High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.

ACTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Carbon Design Systems

Who: Carbon Design Systems™, the leading supplier of tools for the automatic creation, validation and deployment of system-level models

What: Will exhibit in Booth #203 at the Electronic Design and Solution Fair 2010 (EDSFair 2010). Carbon will offer continuous demonstrations on how to assemble a virtual platform for architectural optimization and firmware validation using an implementation-accurate ARM A9 and PL301 Carbon model, highlighting:

• Carbon Model Studio –– a turnkey solution to generate SystemC models for virtual platforms;
• Carbon SoC Designer –– a comprehensive solution that enables users to create and simulate virtual platforms, including the capability to debug software and analyze system performance; and
• Carbon Model Library for ARM –– A pre-qualified 100% implementation-accurate library of ARM intellectual property (IP) including ARM processors, fabric and AXI, AHB and APB peripherals.

When: January 28-29 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Where: Pacifico Yokohama in Kanagawa, Japan

To schedule a meeting or demonstration with Carbon during EDSFair 2010, email: carbonjapan@carbondesignsystems.co.jp.

For details on Carbon Design Systems, visit: www.carbondesignsystems.com.

Information on EDSFair 2010 can be found at: www.edsfair.com/e/.

About Carbon Design Systems

Carbon Design Systems offers the leading system validation solution for complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Target applications range from model generation and deployment to virtual platform creation, execution, and analysis. Carbon provides 100% implementation accuracy on the critical components required for accurate architectural analysis and pre-silicon hardware/software validation. Solutions are based on open industry standards, including SystemC, IP-XACT, Verilog, VHDL, OSCI TLM, MDI, SCML, CASI, CADI and CAPI. Carbon’s customers are systems, semiconductor, and IP companies that focus on wireless, networking and consumer electronics. Carbon is headquartered at 125 Nagog Park, Acton, Mass., 01720. Telephone: (978) 264-7300. Facsimile: (978) 264-9990. Email: info@carbondesignsystems.com. Website: www.carbondesignsystems.com.

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — National Instruments (NASDAQ:NATI) today announced LabVIEW Robotics 2009, a new version of its graphical system design software that provides a standard development platform for designing robotic and autonomous control systems. NI LabVIEW Robotics 2009 delivers an extensive robotics library with connectivity to standard robotic sensors and actuators, foundational algorithms for intelligent operations and perception and motion functions for robots and autonomous vehicles. With this new software, engineers and scientists now can implement ideas faster with seamless deployment to real-time embedded and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware, and can maximize the software flexibility through integration with a variety of processing platforms, third-party software tools and prebuilt robot platforms.

“When building a new robot, one must typically start from scratch. With no software standard, there is very little opportunity for code reuse or sharing,” said Dr. Dave Barrett, professor at Olin College and former vice president of engineering at iRobot Corporation. “We need an industrial-grade, hardened, richly supported software development system to build autonomous, mobile robots that can sense, think, and act in the world around them. I have spent 15 years trying to come up with the best robotics programming language, and LabVIEW has accomplished that.”

Because of its open graphical system design platform, LabVIEW Robotics 2009 can import code from other languages including C/C++, .m files and VHDL, and communicate with a wide variety of sensors using built-in drivers for everything from LIDAR, IR, sonar and GPS devices to dramatically reduce development time allowing engineers and scientists to focus on adding their own algorithms and intelligence. In addition, the software includes new robotics IP capable of easy implementation to real-time and embedded hardware for obstacle avoidance, inverse kinematics and search algorithms to help an autonomous system or robot plan an optimal path.

“The LabVIEW graphical and textual language has evolved dramatically in the past 23 years,” said John Pasquarette, vice president of product marketing for software at National Instruments. “Initially developed as a data acquisition and instrument control tool for automated test, LabVIEW has grown into a powerful embedded mechatronics design platform. Engineers and scientists now can design sophisticated control systems and quickly deploy their applications to real-time embedded hardware from a single environment.”

LabVIEW Robotics 2009 is ideal for designing and prototyping applications including the following:

• Autonomous and semiautonomous ground vehicles
• Robot rescue platforms
• Personal and service robots
• Medical robotic devices
• Academic and research robots
• Agricultural and mining systems

When combined with NI CompactRIO or NI Single-Board RIO devices, LabVIEW Robotics 2009 provides a complete development platform for designing robotic control systems. The reconfigurable I/O (RIO) architecture incorporates a real-time processor, an FPGA and a wide range of I/O, including analog, digital, motion and communication. By combining off-the-shelf sensors with a CompactRIO or NI Single-Board RIO embedded system, engineers and scientists can rapidly design and prototype complex robotic applications.

Readers can explore a collection of robotics tutorials, webcasts, videos and case studies about using NI hardware and software by downloading the “Robotics 101 Resource Kit” at www.ni.com. For additional information on LabVIEW Robotics 2009, readers can visit www.ni.com/robotics.

About National Instruments

National Instruments (www.ni.com) is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 30,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 15 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 5,000 employees and direct operations in more than 40 countries. For the past 10 years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. Readers can obtain investment information from the company’s investor relations department by calling (512) 683-5090, e-mailing nati@ni.com or visiting www.ni.com/nati/.