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Green Hills Software Supports Texas Instruments
Power-Efficient OMAP-L137 Processor
Embedded Software Leader Supplies Proven and Certified RTOS and Tools
SANTA BARBARA, CA—September 1, 2009—Green Hills Software,
Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions,
today announced the availability of its embedded software development
solution for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) OMAP-L137 low-power
applications processor based on the ARM926EJ-S core. Green Hills Software’s
ARM®-optimized solution includes the INTEGRITY® real-time
operating system (RTOS), MULTI® integrated
development environment (IDE), optimizing C/C++ compilers, and Green
Hills Probe. Green Hills Software brings more than 27 years of experience
in the embedded market to TI’s OMAP-L137 processor, enabling developers
to create and deploy reliable, high-performance products for industrial
control, networking, transportation, medical, and a wide variety of other
embedded applications in the least amount of time and at the lowest cost.
"Green Hills Software is a leading independent embedded software
solutions supplier, long-time member of TI’s developer network and provider
of advanced technology for the OMAP™ processors," said Kanika
Carver, OMAP-L1x marketing manager, TI. "Green Hills Software’s
tools and operating systems are a great fit for the reliability and performance-critical
industrial, professional audio and networking applications at which the
OMAP-L137 is targeted."
INTEGRITY for the TI OMAP-L137 processor
The INTEGRITY RTOS’s unique and modern technology achieves unprecedented
levels of security, safety, and availability for applications in industrial
control, networking, transportation, medical, and other industries.
The INTEGRITY RTOS is the foundation for Green Hills Software’s Platform
for Medical Devices, providing automatically generated artifacts
for FDA submissions, and for the Platform
for Industrial Safety, with certification by TÜV to IEC 61508 at
Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3). INTEGRITY is also the first and only
operating system technology certified to
EAL6+ High Robustness, the highest Common Criteria security level ever
achieved by a software product. Only an EAL6+ High Robustness operating
system is certified to protect high value resources at risk of attack
from hostile and well-funded attackers. This is secure by anyone’s
definition.
"We are pleased to support TI’s OMAP-L137 device," commented
Dan Mender, vice president of business development, Green Hills Software. "Modern
embedded system designs place ambitious reliability, power-efficiency,
and time-to-market demands on hardware and software designers. The combination
of the INTEGRITY RTOS and the OMAP-L137 processor meet this challenge,
freeing developers to focus on delivering differentiating applications."
In addition to the INTEGRITY real-time operating system, the integrated
Green Hills software development solution for the OMAP-L137 device consists
of the following components:
- Comprehensive portfolio of embedded communications, file systems,
and other middleware
- MULTI integrated development environment – providing the leading
software development tool set for embedded software developers
- Green Hills Optimized C/C++ compilers – generating highest-performance
and smallest-footprint code for the ARM Architecture
- Green Hills Probe – providing low-level control of the ARM core for
device driver development, board bring-up, and system debugging
About the TI OMAP-L137 Processor
The OMAP-L137 is a low-power applications processor based on an ARM926EJ-S™ and
a TMS320C674x fixed- and floating-point digital signal processor (DSP)
with both cores running at 300MHz. The OMAP-L137 enables OEMs and ODMs
to quickly bring to market devices featuring robust operating systems
support, multiple connectivity options, rich user interfaces, and high
processing performance. The OMAP-L137 integrates numerous peripherals,
including Ethernet, I2C, SPI, audio, UART, and USB.
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 be certified
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
About the Texas Instruments Developer Network
Green Hills Software is a member of the TI Developer Network, a community
of respected, well-established companies offering products and services
based on TI analog and digital technology. The Network provides a broad
range of end-equipment solutions, embedded software, engineering services
and development tools that help customers accelerate innovation to
make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. www.ti.com/dspdevnetwork
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