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Green Hills Releases Updated Software Platform for Secure NetworkingMay 06, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Green Hills Software, an independent vendor of embedded software solutions, announced updates to its Platform for Secure Networking. These updates include a new multicore communications API, fast path network packet optimization, support for native and virtualized third party Linux operating systems, and optimizations for Freescale Semiconductor's QorIQ multicore networking processors. The modern telecommunications equipment is powered by incredibly sophisticated systems-on-chip (SoC) with numerous specialized processing elements that must be carefully managed to realize their performance efficiency benefits. Developers need a correspondingly powerful set of multicore-optimized development tools with target software solutions that scale to meet this challenge. "Green Hills Software continues to invest heavily in its networking product portfolio with specific emphasis on optimized solutions for Freescale Semiconductor's QorIQ multicore networking processors," said David Kleidermacher, CTO, Green Hills Software. "Our Platform for Secure Networking, with its comprehensive operating system, hypervisor, and middleware solutions coupled with the leading multicore development and system observability tools, enables embedded systems designers to maximize performance and system availability while reducing development cost and time-to-market." "Freescale is pleased to see the advancements made in the Green Hills Platform for Secure Networking targeting our industry leading family of QorIQ networking processors," noted Raja Tabet, VP of Solutions and Enablement Technology for Freescale Semiconductor's Networking and Multimedia Group. "Now customers can more efficiently manage the multi-OS, multicore demands of next-generation telecom platform designs while achieving optimized system performance and availability." Green Hills Interprocess Communications is a highly optimized multicore communication software package designed specifically for high performance telecom applications that require maximum throughput and minimum latency. GIPC is optimized for the Integrity RTOS and the Integrity Multivisor, enabling native Integrity and native and/or virtualized Linux applications to communicate with maximum efficiency. While it takes advantage of a multicore processor's high speed interconnects, GIPC, nevertheless, presents a POSIX-compliant interface for programmers. Green Hills Software's Type-1 hypervisor is built upon Integrity, a popular high reliability real-time kernel. The Integrity RTOS employs true symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) for maximum applications portability and flexibility in managing multiple cores. In addition, both single core and multicore SMP guest Linux operating systems are supported by using the latest in virtualization hardware support found on Freescale's QorIQ processors such as the eight-core P4080. The Integrity Multivisor fully supports the Power Architecture 2.06 ISA Book III-E hypervisor mode, Freescale's QorIQ-specific extensions including the Peripheral Access Management Unit (PAMU), and the Power.org Standard for Embedded Power Architecture Platform Requirements (ePAPR) specification, enabling developers to manage virtual machines and system resources in a standardized manner across multi-vendor hardware and software solutions. Green Hills Software, along with Freescale and IBM, has led the design of the latest ePAPR standard. The Green Hills Platform for Secure Networking is a comprehensive platform consisting of operating systems, secure virtualization, OS-agnostic development tools, and middleware that enables developers to create secure, connected electronic products in the least time and at the lowest cost. In addition to Green Hills Software's Multi, an embedded software development toolset, the platform offers the Green Hills Integrity operating system, Integrity Multivisor virtualization, file systems, dual IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP host and routing stack, web server, SSH, SSL, wireless communications and security software, Layer 3 IP routing and management software, USB, and a variety of other tightly integrated networking and application protocols. Green Hills Platform for Secure Networking is available immediately. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) |