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DURA Automotive Systems Selects Green Hills Software's Platform for Advanced Driver Assistance

DURA's Highly Automated Driving Control System Powered by INTEGRITY Safety and Security RTOS

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AUSTIN, TX — May 18, 2016 — NXP® FTF Technology Forum — Green Hills Software, the worldwide leader in high assurance operating systems, today announced DURA Automotive Systems' selection of the Green Hills Platform for ADAS, featuring the safe and secure INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS), to power DURA's Highly Automated Driving control system. The control system integrates vision, vehicle and range-based sensor data while safely and securely instructing crucial systems for brakes, steering and powertrain. Utilizing the INTEGRITY secure and safe separation architecture on the 64-bit NXP S32V200 family of automotive processors, the Highly Automated Driving control system is perfectly suited for automakers building open, highly secure and scalable platforms with the latest in Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) features.

Highly Automated Driving Control System
Automakers are racing to introduce automated driving features with stringent levels of security and safety. DURA's revolutionary Highly Automated Driving control system incorporates a dedicated control module, complete with software, vision, communication and range-based sensors. This module features sophisticated image processing algorithms and the necessary V2X hardware and software for the latest in vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS is the trusted execution environment to safely and securely run critical software functions for vision cognition, sensor fusion and vehicle dynamics. The system maintains a low power envelope that allows for passive cooling and compact packaging, making the system perfectly suited for integration by automakers worldwide.

"Our Highly Automated Driving control system is a watershed moment for car makers that seek a scalable, open architecture to develop highly secure, next-generation, semi-autonomous features," said Nizar Trigui, chief operating officer at DURA. "We chose Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS for its proven safety and security architecture as the trusted environment to execute our sophisticated algorithms for vision cognition and autonomous vehicle control."

"Green Hills Software is very honored that DURA selected our INTEGRITY RTOS as the trusted execution environment for their Highly Automated Driving control system," said Dan O'Dowd, founder and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software. "Dura's Highly Automated Driving control system addresses automakers' desire to achieve rapid deployment of next-generation autonomous features. Our safe and secure INTEGRITY coupled with its advanced MULTI® software development environment are widely used in safety-critical car subsystems by automotive OEMs and Tier 1s worldwide, and we're proud to bring these strengths to the DURA solution."

The Green Hills Platform for ADAS offers the safety certified INTEGRITY RTOS, INTEGRITY Multivisor™ secure virtualization, and safety-certified MULTI development tools, leading the industry for developing, certifying and deploying ADAS devices on 32- and 64-bit SoCs such as the NXP S32V200 family of processors:

• INTEGRITY RTOS, the most trusted separation architecture, safely and securely runs critical multicore ADAS applications.
• INTEGRITY Multivisor secure virtualization technology can safely run ISO 26262-certified applications alongside guest operating systems like Windows, Linux and Android, increasing the scalability and reuse within a customer's platform.
• MULTI integrated software development environment features ISO 26262 ASIL D toolchain, multicore debugger, TimeMachine™ trace debugging, MISRA C support and many other integrated time-saving capabilities.
• Maximum vision processing performance through dual APEX-2 image cognition processor cores and Vision SDK from NXP.
• Maximum multimedia and signal processing performance from EEMBC® record-setting C/C++ compilers for ARM® Cortex™-A™ and Cortex-M cores, including optimized support for the ARM Neon™ instructions.
• Fully accelerated 3D graphics utilizing the Vivante GC3000 OpenGL graphics processing unit (GPU).
• Complete AUTOSAR-compliant application framework, allows AUTOSAR software components to seamlessly run with freedom from interference, enabling maximum software reuse.

Availability
DURA's Highly Automated Driving Control system can be viewed at the NXP FTF Technology Forum, May 16-19 in both the DURA and Green Hills Technology Lab demonstration areas.

About DURA Automotive Systems
DURA Automotive Systems, a Lynn Tilton company, is a leading innovator and manufacturer of mechatronic control systems, including shift-by-wire systems and human machine interfaces; electronic systems, including actuators and highly automated driving solutions; lightweight structural body systems, including aluminum and hybrid multi-material closures; and exterior systems, including power glass systems and designer trim with intelligent surface technology. The company has locations in 15 countries with a presence on more than 300 vehicle models worldwide. DURA is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA.

About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things. In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY–178 RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL 6+, 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.

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