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News & PressGreen Hills Software Expands Industry Leading IEC 61508 Platform for Industrial Safety Significant Feature Enhancements for Platforms' SIL3-Certified INTEGRITY Operating System SANTA BARBARA, CA—August 4, 2009—Green Hills Software, Inc., the world leader in platform-independent embedded software solutions, today announced major enhancement to its Platform for Industrial Safety, adding support for the Green Hills Secure Virtualization Architecture and expanding the existing networking, file system and target hardware options. Certified by TÜV to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3) of the IEC 61508 safety standard, SIL3 is the highest assurance level achievable for an individual software component, such as an operating system. "Based on our customers' feedback and future design directions and requirements, we invested time and resources to offer this important update to our Platform for Industrial Safety," commented Dan Mender, vice president business development, Green Hills Software. "With these enhancements, Green Hills continues to deliver the industry's most reliable and flexible solution for customers to build their safety-critical devices and infrastructure on, providing for the shortest time-to-market at a lower development and deployment cost." The certified INTEGRITY® operating system technology forms the core of the Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety, a comprehensive solution comprised of tools, operating systems, secure guest OS virtualization, services, and middleware aimed at reliability-critical industrial control, transportation, railway, nuclear control and automation systems. By utilizing our certified operating system, available middleware and support services, customers reduce their development cost and time to certify their end products. Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety now offers expanded support for:
The innovative secure partitioning capability of INTEGRITY enables software, from non safety-related through safety-critical, to be safely partitioned on a single processor. Each partition can then be certified at its appropriate Safety Integrity Level, eliminating the need for separate physical systems or to certify code beyond the required safety level. With Green Hills' processor-independent certification, customers have a wide range of options to choose from allowing unmatched design flexibility compared to alternative approaches, and resulting in reduced overall system complexity, product and certification cost. Green Hills Software's operating systems have a long history of use in electronic products requiring the highest levels of reliability and assurance. In addition to its certification to IEC 61508 SIL3, DO-178B Level A for flight-critical avionics and its use in FDA/CDRH Class II and Class III life-critical medical devices, INTEGRITY RTOS technology is the first operating system to receive security certification at assurance level EAL6+ of the Common Criteria, the highest level ever achieved for any software. The Green Hills Software Platform for Industrial Safety delivers the following components: INTEGRITY and velOSity™ real-time operating systems (RTOS), with certification by TÜV to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) EN 61508 standard at Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3); a safety manual; SIL3 certification certificate and report; MULTI Confidence-from-Use report (optional). "Green Hills consistently delivers high-quality software that enables our industrial customers to easily take advantage of the flexibility and performance of TI OMAP35x processors," said Ram Sathappan, industrial computing manager, TI. "These advances in their RTOS running on OMAP35x devices will help customers building programmable automation controllers attain their safety certification easier and faster." About IEC 61508 Availability About Green Hills Software About the Texas Instruments Developer Network
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