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Green Hills Software Adds Virtualization
to Platform for Secure Networking
Incorporates Guest OS Applications While Increasing System Availability
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, SAN JOSE, CA—MARCH 31, 2009—Green
Hills Software, Inc., the world leader in secure
operating systems, today announced a major enhancement to its Platform
for Secure Networking, adding secure virtualization and new reference
platforms.
Secure Virtualization
Green Hills Software’s approach to system virtualization enables
a complete Linux operating system and its applications ecosystem to securely
and seamlessly coexist with the performance, reliability-critical, and
real-time portions of networking devices – all on a single general purpose
microprocessor. System availability is increased by eliminating the possibility
for a non-critical application failure or corruption in the Linux environment
to compromise the critical real-time packet traffic applications and
services running on the INTEGRITY® RTOS.
High availability and secure isolation between networking subsystems
is assured by INTEGRITY, the world’s first Common Criteria EAL6+ certified
operating system technology. The INTEGRITY advanced security architecture
prevents denial-of-service attacks while guaranteeing optimal real-time
performance for packet processing applications.
Fulcrum Reference Platform and Embedded Systems Conference Demonstration
At the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2009, Green Hills Software
will demonstrate the application of its Platform for Secure Networking
to a new reference design – the Fulcrum Microsystems "Vegas," 48-port
1-Gigabit Ethernet switch chip reference system. The Vegas reference
platform consists of the Green Hills Platform for Secure Networking,
including GateD® – the industry’s benchmark solution for commercial-grade
routing and switching software. Using Green Hills Software’s secure
virtualization architecture, a standard Linux operating system will
execute on the Freescale MPC8548 general purpose processor of the reference
platform, providing system management functionality and other services.
Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY RTOS provides the secure isolation
of the Linux environment from the real-time routing and packet processing
functions, which execute as native INTEGRITY applications on the same
general purpose processor. In addition, the INTEGRITY RTOS’s ultra-fast
interprocess communications (IPC) enable the Linux and INTEGRITY applications
to rapidly exchange management information.
"We are pleased to expand our partnership with Green Hills Software
and its industry-leading software offering for the telecom space," said
Mike Zeile, president and chief operating officer of Fulcrum Microsystems. "Network
service providers now have an ideal combination for their high performance
systems: innovative Ethernet and switching silicon with complete networking
software solutions based on the leading high performance, high reliability
real-time operating system – INTEGRITY."
"Green Hills Software provides the networking and telecommunication
industry’s only one-stop solution for high reliability operating systems,
secure virtualization, IPv4/IPv6 routing stack protocols, and field-proven
control and data plane functionality,” commented Sue Hares, director
of networking solutions, Green Hills Software. “The increased adoption
of the Platform for Secure Networking by leading networking equipment
manufacturers is a result of the excellent return on investment and increases
in system availability provided by superior platform software technology,
best-in-class developer productivity tools, and outstanding technical
support."
About the Green Hills Platform for Secure Networking
The Green Hills Platform for Secure Networking is a comprehensive platform
consisting of operating systems, secure virtualization, development
tools, and middleware that enable developers to create secure, powerful,
high-performance connected electronic products in the least time and
at the lowest cost. In addition to Green Hills Software’s MULTI®,
the industry’s leading embedded software development toolset, the platform
offers the Green Hills INTEGRITY and velOSity™ operating
systems, INTEGRITY PC™ secure virtualization, advanced file systems, dual
IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP host and routing stack, web server, SSH,
SSL, wireless communications and security software, Layer 3 IP
routing and management software, USB, and a variety of other tightly
integrated networking and application protocols. The Platform also
includes out-of-box support for leading silicon reference designs from
vendors such as Broadcom and Fulcrum Microsystems.
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. 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. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY® and velOSity™ real-time
operating systems, µ-velOSity™ microkernel, compilers, IPv6-ready
TCP/IP networking stacks, GateD® Layer2 switching
and Layer 3 routing, MULTI® and AdaMULTI™ integrated
development environments, DoubleCheck™ integrated
static analyzer and TimeMachine™ 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.
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