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News & PressGreen Hills Software Launches Embedded Virtualization Business Unit Embedded Software Leader Focuses on Virtualization Based on the Proven INTEGRITY Real-Time Operating System EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, BOSTON, MA — September 22, 2009—Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced its new Embedded Virtualization Business Unit, representing a significant investment and commitment to virtualization in the embedded and special-purpose computing market. The business unit’s flagship product, INTEGRITY® Secure Virtualization (ISV), supports hosting of Windows, Linux, VxWorks and other general purpose operating systems in secure virtual containers on ARM, Intel, Power and other processor architectures. "For more than 10 years, Raytheon has been a leader delivering cross-domain security solutions to meet our customers' diverse needs," remarked Steve Hawkins, vice president of Raytheon Information Security Solutions. "Green Hills is a longtime valuable partner with Raytheon, and we are excited about the capabilities Green Hills secure virtualization will bring to our next-generation cross-domain technologies." "The need for virtualization has grown beyond the enterprise markets with increasing adoption in traditional embedded markets such as networking, automotive, medical, industrial controls, and mobile computing," commented Dan O'Dowd, founder and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software. "Only Green Hills offers a proven secure virtualization solution. With this new corporate commitment, we are bringing the benefits of military-grade security, an open flexible architecture, small footprint and real-time performance to commercial markets." First deployed in 2003, INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization delivers a unique hybrid architecture that extends the safety and security-certified INTEGRITY real-time operating system technology to enable safe execution of trusted real-time critical software side-by-side with untrusted applications running on general purpose operating systems. The introduction of the Embedded Virtualization Business Unit further advances Green Hills Software’s complete software solution through industry-leading technology and expertise:
"With increasing pressure to lower cost of manufacturing and increase functionality, device developers are turning to new multicore architectures and virtualization. Green Hills INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization offers these customers a proven virtualization solution that maximizes reliability and real-time performance in a flexible configurable architecture," commented Gordon Jones, vice president of Green Hills Software’s Embedded Virtualization Business Unit. "We have developed engineering and business partnerships with ARM, Freescale, Intel, Marvell, Texas Instruments and others to enable broad market reach and support for a broad range of customer needs." Availability What our Partners are Saying Mike Inglis, executive vice president and general manager, Processor Division, ARM "Freescale's QorIQ™ product family sets the standard for highly advanced, integrated hardware virtualization in embedded markets. Green Hills Software’s expertise and technologies fully leverage the virtualization capabilities of QorIQ processors, helping our joint customers get the most out of their multicore designs." Raja Tabet, vice president of Software and Enablement at Freescale Semiconductor "Green Hills Software’s virtualization technologies complement TI’s ARM-based OMAP 3 processors by providing our customers with a powerful platform offering software flexibility and reuse as they develop a wide range of embedded applications including industrial controls, medical devices and embedded systems. The addition of secure embedded virtualization to our OMAP 3 processors enables consolidation of various operating systems and applications for unprecedented power savings while maintaining the security and reliability of the system." Gerard Andrews, OMAP product line manager, Texas Instruments About Green Hills Software
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