The development toolkit includes real-time operating systems, C/C++ compilers for power architecture, multi integrated development environment (IDE), virtual prototyping platform, doubleCheck integrated static analyzer, and hardware debug probes.
We have been so impressed with the performance, power, and I/O capabilities of the Applied Micro Circuit Corporation (AMCC) power architecture microprocessors, that we decided to use one as the primary processing unit within our next-generation Green Hills Probe the world’s fastest debug probe, said David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer at Green Hills Software. The combination of the Green Hills software solutions and AMCC’s PowerPC processors provides a compelling productivity and cost proposition for embedded systems developers.
According to AMCC, its PowerPC 405EZ embedded processor provides a low power, small footprint system-on-a-chip solution for high performance, cost-constrained embedded applications. It is an easily programmable general-purpose 32-bit RISC embedded processor that can be used for better connectivity in applications, which use 8-bit, 16-bit, reduced instruction set computer (RISC), or digital signal processing multipoint control unit (DSP MCU).
Green Hills Software’s industry leading software development and operating system solutions are ideally suited to the industrial control and industrial automation markets for which the AMCC PowerPC 405EZ was designed, said Charlie Ashton, director of software at AMCC.
In a similar move, Green Hills collaborated with Microchip Technology, a provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, launched a software development product suite for Microchip’s PIC32 family of microcontrollers (MCUs) in November 2007. The suite included the multi integrated development environment, Green Hills compilers, and Green Hills Probe.
Source: ComputerWire daily updates
