[May 02, 2012]

HCC Releases MISRA-Compliant TCP/IP Stack for TI Hercules™ ARM® Safety MCUs

HCC-Embedded today announced the release of a MISRA compliant TCP/IP stack for Texas Instruments' (News - Alert) (TI) Hercules™ ARM® Safety Microcontrollers (MCUs).

HCC's MISRA-compliant embedded TCP/IP is a compact, high-quality stack that supports both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. It implements a strongly typed subset of the 'C' language that complies with the MISRA-C:2004 standard and is supplied with detailed test and verification reports.

First introduced by the automotive industry, MISRA has now developed into a 'best-practice' coding standard that is widely used in the medical, industrial, telecom and aerospace industries. HCC has combined MISRA with its own rigorous coding standard to create a concise subset of the C language for use in embedded communications systems. The result is clean, clear and robust code withoutambiguities, appropriate for use in many safety critical embedded applications.

"At TI, we understand the chip is only the beginning of the safety design process," says Dev Pradhan, Hercules safety MCU product line manager, TI. "Our goal is to provide a complete system solution with software, and through our robust ecosystem is one way we do this. We're excited to work with HCC to deliver the MISRA-compliant TCP/IP stack for our Hercules safety MCUs to deliver faster processing and certified solutions."

The innovative stack design can process packets up to four times faster than some other widely available stacks and requires only 14KB of ROM and 12KB of RAM (News - Alert) in a fully configured system. When coupled with the Hercules family's advanced integrated safety features and performance, it provides an industry-leading standard of design integrity.

Abstractions are available to support many popular RTOSes, or it can be used without an RTOS, allowing engineers to choose what is appropriate for their project. The stack is available for immediate delivery on TMS570 and RM4x MCUs.

About the Texas Instruments Design Network

HCC-Embedded is a member of the TI Design Network, a premier group of independent, well-established companies that offer products and system-level design and manufacturing services complementing TI's semiconductors to a worldwide customer base to accelerate product innovation and time-to-market. Network members provide product design, hardware and software system integration, turnkey product design, RF and processor system modules, reference platforms, software development, proof-of-concept design, feasibility studies, research, certification compliance, prototyping, manufacturing, and product life cycle management. For more information about the TI Design Network, please visit http://www.ti.com/designnetwork.

About HCC-Embedded

HCC-Embedded is the foremost vendor of Advanced Embedded Middleware for storage and communication. Implementation and maintenance are based on software audits and V model implementation, including change management. The company offers an extensive family of embedded middleware including file systems, TCP/IP, USB software for host and device, flash translation layers and DICOM. Products run in most environments, with most OSes or without an OS, and with most processors and peripherals. All HCC-Embedded products are licensed on a royalty-free basis and distributed in full source form.

"MISRA" is a registered trademark of MIRA Ltd, held on behalf of the MISRA Consortium. No endorsement by MISRA is claimed or implied for any HCC product.

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