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News & PressGreen Hills Platform for Industrial Safety Expands Fieldbus Support across Wide Range of Freescale Processors Green Hills Royalty-free RTOSes Available for Freescale’s Microprocessors Based on Power Architecture Technology and ColdFire Devices FREESCALE TECHNOLOGY FORUM, MUNICH, GERMANY —October 16, 2007— Green Hills Software, Inc., the technology leader in device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced their plans to add support for CANopen, IEEE® 1588, EtherNet/IP™ and PROFINET protocols for the Green Hills royalty-free RTOSes running on a myriad of Freescale’s embedded microprocessors and microcontrollers. This effort delivers powerful design flexibility, allowing customers to address per-unit-cost and time-to-market pressures with the widest range of options for proven, integrated communications solutions targeting the industrial, manufacturing, power systems and medical device markets. “From safety-certified to small, simple RTOS offerings, Green Hills delivers a wide range of royalty-free operating systems for Freescale’s families of industrial-class microprocessors and microcontrollers,” said Bruno Baylac, director marketing for Freescale’s global consumer and industrial business. “With this extended suite of protocols, customers are given extensive flexibility in their product designs by allowing the selection of the right protocols, RTOSes, microcontrollers and embedded processors that satisfy unique feature requirements, performance, safety certifications and price points.” This week, at the Freescale Technology Forum in Munich, Green Hills will be demonstrating how a central communications/gateway processor (the MPC8360) communicates with a master/slave CANopen combination of two independent ColdFire™ processors, providing a real-world demonstration of the INTEGRITY IEC 61508 SIL3 certified RTOS running on the Freescale PowerQUICC® processor-based Reference Design Kit (MPC8360E-RDK) in combination with INTEGRITY and µ-velOSity running on ColdFire devices executing the CANopen protocol stack. The Green Hills Software Platform for Industrial Safety offers the following component support for the Freescale Power Architecture™ processors and ColdFire devices:
“Freescale has a distinctive position in that it offers its customers a wide range and class of microprocessors from the communications-savvy 32-bit PowerQUICC processors to the growing family of highly integrated ColdFire devices,” said Dan Mender, director of business development, Green Hills Software. “The combination of these popular fieldbus protocols across a wide range and class of microprocessors and royalty-free operating systems further reduce product time-to-market while delivering optimum flexibility in device design.” Availability About Green Hills Software
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