Green Hills Software Announces Support for Xilinx Zynq-7000 EPP

SANTA BARBARA, CA — June 13, 2012 — Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announces support for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 extensible processing platform (EPP) with its INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS) platforms, high speed JTAG and trace-enabled processor probes and its performance-leading MULTI® integrated development environment. The Xilinx Zynq-7000 EPP tightly integrates a complete ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processor-based system with low-power programmable logic for system architects and embedded software developers to extend, customize, optimize, and differentiate their systems, by adding peripherals and accelerators into the programmable logic.

"Our customers are continually challenged with balancing the performance, scalability and flexibility demands of their embedded system designs," commented David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer, Green Hills Software. "Now with the Xilinx Zynq-7000 family combined with our INTEGRITY platform and tools solutions, customers can achieve unmatched configurability in their designs without compromising on system security, reliability and performance."

Green Hills Software's extensive platform support for Zynq-7000 devices ranges from the embedded industry's first multicore IDE, MULTI; symmetrical multiprocessing support in its INTEGRITY operating system; plus its tightly integrated processor trace debugging support via Green Hills TimeMachine™ debugger and SuperTrace™ probe. This added support by Green Hills Software enables the rapid adoption of the Zynq-7000 devices in a wide variety of markets, including industrial, medical, automotive, software defined radio, and aerospace and defense.

"Xilinx is pleased to see the addition of Green Hills Software's support for our award-winning Zynq-7000 EPP with its mature, broadly adopted INTEGRITY platform solutions and advanced MULTI IDE," said Mark Jensen, director of processing platforms marketing at Xilinx. "With this support, our customers are enabled to design the most reliable, secure, high performance systems, with the fastest time-to-market across a broad range of vertical markets."

The INTEGRITY real-time operating system, MULTI C/C++ compilers, and IDE, along with JTAG and trace-enabled processor probe and TimeMachine debugger support for the Zynq-7000 EPP are available now.

About Green Hills Software

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software 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 NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) 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.