Mobile World Congress 2010, Barcelona, Spain — 15 February 2010 — Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent supplier of embedded software solutions, today announced the INTEGRITY^® Multivisor™, a multicore hypervisor for ARM^® Cortex-A9 MPCore™ processors. The INTEGRITY Multivisor is built on INTEGRITY, the world’s market-leading, high-reliability RTOS and the only technology certified by USA’s National Security Agency to EAL6+ High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product.  

The INTEGRITY Multivisor unlocks the performance potential of multicore designs, reduces OEM costs through processor consolidation, increases battery life by facilitating intelligent multicore power management, enables new usage models such as dual operating system personalities on a single device, and reduces cost and time-to-market for platform suppliers and OEMs by reusing proven versions of multimedia operating systems, such as Android and Linux. 

“The Cortex-A9 processor delivers unprecedented performance-efficiency for an upcoming generation of connected mobile devices,” said Gordon Jones, vice president of Green Hills Software’s Embedded Virtualization Business Unit. “However, taking maximum advantage of a multicore platform requires a systems software solution that can securely consolidate disparate workloads: controlling peripheral access, minimizing power consumption across cores, and providing flexible APIs for sophisticated new usage models.” 

“We welcome the development of the INTEGRITY Multivisor which delivers a powerful systems software foundation optimized for the Cortex-A9 MPCore processor,” commented Eric Schorn, vice president of marketing, Processors Division, ARM. “The Green Hills Multivisor is a valuable addition to the range of optimized solutions available to Cortex-A9 licensees through the ARM Connected Community™ ecosystem.” 

About INTEGRITY Multivisor

INTEGRITY Multivisor for the ARM Cortex-A9 processor is a member of the family of INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization (ISV) solutions. ISV consists of the certified INTEGRITY real-time microkernel technology coupled with facilities to execute one or more “guest” operating systems. INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization also provides a native environment for specialized applications, such as security functionality, fast-boot web browsers, and platform/OEM multimedia and communications codecs. The INTEGRITY RTOS’s advanced architecture enables virtual machines and applications to safely co-exist with guaranteed memory, CPU time resources, and strictly enforced device access control.  

INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization offers several approaches to virtualization in ARM-powered devices. ISV can use paravirtualization to host Android and other guest operating systems. Alternatively, ISV can host unmodified guest operating systems (“full” virtualization) by using advanced software virtualization techniques as well as hardware acceleration when available.

In addition to virtualization, ISV can optionally be used as a Secure Execution Mode for ARM TrustZone^® technology-enabled processors. Security-critical applications such as cryptographic algorithms and protocols used for DRM, critical financial transactions, and firmware authentication are isolated from the primary user environment by a combination of TrustZone hardware and INTEGRITY software partitioning. ISV provides an efficient API for strictly controlled access to TrustZone security services.   

For platform suppliers and OEMs who must support multiple multimedia operating systems, ISV can provide significant cost and time-to-market savings by enabling all of these operating systems to run on the latest hardware without porting. 

In addition to its security and reliability features, ISV comes with more than a decade of tools and a middleware ecosystem to help platform suppliers and OEMs develop and deploy products faster. The INTEGRITY RTOS is supported by thousands of device drivers, network stacks, file systems, JVMs, and many other components – pre-integrated and ready to deploy.  

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 becertified 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.

ARM and TrustZone are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. Cortex and MPCore are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. “ARM” is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Limited.; ARM Taiwan Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; ARM Norway, AS and ARM Sweden AB. 

Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, INTEGRITY, and Multivisor are trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. in the U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — National Instruments (NASDAQ:NATI) today announced the expansion of its NI FlexRIO product line with a new offering of NI FlexRIO FPGA modules for PXI Express and a new baseband transceiver adapter module. These new products deliver optimized solutions for high-speed signal processing and other automated test and measurement applications. They also represent the industry’s first commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution with the flexibility of NI LabVIEW FPGA technology and high-speed, reconfigurable I/O (RIO) for PXI and PXI Express systems. With new PXI Express connectivity and peer-to-peer streaming capabilities, engineers now can achieve high-bandwidth data streaming to and from their host CPU as well as directly between multiple NI FlexRIO FPGA modules and select PXI Express modular instruments from NI.

NI FlexRIO solutions for PXI Express use two distinct hardware components: an FPGA module and an adapter module. The NI PXIe-796xR NI FlexRIO FPGA modules feature DSP-focused Xilinx Virtex-5 SXT FPGAs. These FPGAs include optimized DSP blocks to streamline operations such as fast Fourier transforms (FFTs), custom filtering, modulation and demodulation and other signal-processing functions. Unlike other user-programmable FPGA instruments, engineers can program NI FlexRIO FPGAs with LabVIEW graphical system design software and the LabVIEW FPGA module. This approach helps engineers target their applications to the FPGAs without prior VHDL knowledge while also providing an interface to import native VHDL code directly into LabVIEW FPGA.

The NI PXIe-796xR FPGA modules incorporate the new NI-STC3 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which facilitates peer-to-peer streaming to significantly increase test and measurement system throughput. The ASIC powers direct data streaming between multiple NI FlexRIO FPGA modules or between PXI Express digitizers and FPGA modules without sending data through the host processor. Engineers can use this technology to add FPGA capabilities to existing high-performance NI digitizers. For computationally demanding applications, engineers also can spread their algorithms across multiple FPGAs, implementing peer-to-peer streaming from one to another at more than 800 MB/s, or in both directions at over 700 MB/s per direction, for a total module throughput of more than 1.4 GB/s.

Using the other hardware component of an NI FlexRIO system – the NI FlexRIO adapter module – engineers can directly interface FPGAs to numerous types of I/O for measurements across test and measurement applications that require real-time performance or hardware signal processing. The new NI 5781 baseband transceiver adapter module incorporates dual 100 MS/s 14-bit analog inputs and dual 100 MS/s 16-bit analog outputs and is ideal for custom baseband interfaces and ultra-high-speed control applications.

The NI 5781 adapter module joins a growing line of NI FlexRIO adapter modules, which also includes third-party adapter modules for further application specificity. For applications requiring highly customized I/O, engineers can create their own adapter modules using the NI FlexRIO Adapter Module Development Kit.

To see the latest NI FlexRIO PXI Express products and NI FlexRIO adapter module, readers can stop by booth 1338 at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in San Jose, CA, during April 27-29, 2010.

Readers can learn more about the new NI FlexRIO products for PXI Express by visiting www.ni.com/flexrio.

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 11 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.

Pricing and Contact Information

NI PXIe-796xR FPGA modules for NI FlexRIO

Priced* from $4,499; euro 4,149; 630,000

yen NI 5781 baseband transceiver adapter module

Priced* from $2,999; euro 2,749; 420,000 yen

NI FlexRIO Adapter Module Development Kit

Priced* from $4,999; euro 4,599; 700,000 yen

Web: www.ni.com/flexrio

*All prices are subject to change without notice. 11500 N Mopac Expwy, Austin, Texas 78759-3504 Tel: (800) 258-7022, Fax: (512) 683-9300 E-mail: info@ni.com

LabVIEW, National Instruments, NI, ni.com and NI FlexRIO are trademarks of National Instruments. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.

SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– February 15, 2010 –– EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification and developer of ZeBu-Server, a scalable and affordable emulation system, today announced that it will sponsor the 5th Annual Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping (WARP) to be held June 19 in Saint-Malo, France.  It will be collocated with the ACM IEEE International Symposium Computer Architecture (ISCA). 

Submission for this year’s workshop, the forum for computer architects to share practical experiences and offer insights on prototyping, emulating and modeling, will be accepted now through April 16.  Author notification will be made by May 7.  For more details, visit:  www.eve-usa.com/warp2010/.

Sandra Larrabee, manager of EVE’s unEVErsity Connections Program, serves on the WARP Organizing Committee with Professor Omar Hammami of ENSTA ParisTech.  “The International Symposium Computer Architecture Conference is the flagship conference in the computer architecture community,” says Professor Hammami.  “We are excited to be part of this event with our partner EVE by offering WARP 2010.  This workshop will be a great compliment to the ISCA 2010 conference by addressing the important academic and industrial challenges of future generation complex architecture prototyping.  We expect contributions from industry and academia from around the globe. We will gather together with out colleagues to share work, and to express ideas and experiences so that others might benefit.”

About EVE

EVE is the worldwide leader in hardware/software co-verification solutions, including hardware description language (HDL) acceleration and extremely fast emulation, with installations at nine of the top 10 semiconductor companies.  EVE products significantly shorten the overall verification cycle of complex integrated circuits and electronic systems designs.  Its products also work in conjunction with popular Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL-based software simulators from Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics.  Follow EVE on Twitter at www.twitter.com/EVETEAM.  Its United States headquarters are in San Jose, Calif.  Telephone: (408) 457-3200.  Facsimile: (408) 457-3299.  Corporate headquarters are in Palaiseau, France.  Telephone: (33) 1 64.53.27.30.  Fax: (33) 1 64.53.27.40.  Email:  info@eve-team.com.  Website:  www.eve-team.com.