Birdstep Technology has announced the availability of its RDM server embedded database for the Green Hills INTEGRITY IEC 61508 SIL 3 certified operating system.

RDM Server is expected to streamline the development of safety critical industrial automation applications through standard APIs and achieve data redundancy through its replication engine.

The company claimed that its new RDM server embedded database can help solving the issues associated with integrating data management within industrial applications and reducing the costs that developers incur in analysing and testing.

Dan Mender, vice president of business development at Green Hills Software, said: With Birdstep’s embedded database integrated with our platform for industrial safety, our customers have access to an addition to the stack of middleware components, addressing requirements for database performance, predictability and data management.

Duncan Bates, VP of product management for the Raima products, said: Green Hills Software is a valued partner. By extending our support for their Platform for Industrial Safety, it enables us to continue our growing success within the safety critical market.

Birdstep Technology is a provider of embedded database offering known as the Raima Database Manager product-line.

Green Hills provides compilers, software development tools and real-time operating systems (RTOS) for developers of embedded systems.