Green Hills Software, the largest independent supplier of embedded software solutions, has announced the availability of its industry-leading INTEGRITY® real-time operating systems (RTOS) and comprehensive MULTI® software development environment for the ARM® Cortex™-A5 architecture. The run-time and development solution brings the unique combination of high performance and real-time determinism with market-specific functional safety options to customers developing medical, smart grid, low-end smart mobile, industrial and automotive devices.

Early global customers are utilizing the unique features of the INTEGRITY RTOS and the Cortex-A5 architecture:

• INTEGRITY RTOS achieves the highest functional safety certification levels in industrial, medical, automotive and railway, and delivers real-time determinism with high-performance by leveraging the Cortex-A5 multicore architecture and performance accelerators including MMU.
• MULTI integrated software development environment features a multicore debugger, MISRA C/C++ code quality adherence, profiler and many other integrated time-saving tools.
• Toolchain compliant to automotive and industrial safety standards ISO 26262 ASIL D, EN50128 SIL 4 and IEC 61508 SIL 4.
• Award-winning TimeMachine™ debugger and SuperTrace™ probe for revolutionary rewind debugging and non-intrusive analysis.
• Record-setting EEMBC®-certified C/C++ compilers, leveraging Cortex-A5 performance acceleration units including the latest floating point (VFPv4) and NEON™ SIMD engine.
• Green Hills probe for hardware bring-up and low-level debugging and development.

“Green Hills has a long and rich history of applying its leading-edge RTOS, compiler, trace debugging and functional safety software technology to ARM-based processors,” said David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer at Green Hills Software. “We’re seeing a growing popularity of Cortex-Ax in all industry segments and we look forward to continuing to enable this trend.”

Availability

The Green Hills solution for Cortex-A5 is available today.

About Green Hills Software

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent supplier of embedded development solutions. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA and NIST) to EAL 6+, 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.