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Integrated Environment Reduces Development Time of Embedded OSEK-Compliant Automotive Designs Based on ARM and NEC V85x Processors

United Kingdom, August 13, 2001 -- The MULTI® 2000 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from Green Hills Software Inc., can help designers reduce development time of embedded systems for automotive applications by providing full support for the osCAN OSEK-compliant real-time operating system (RTOS) running on ARM and NEC microprocessors.

Fully compliant with OSEK v2.1 and available for ARM and NEC V85x processors, the osCAN RTOS from Vector Informatik is optimized for code-efficient automotive designs that minimize use of microcontroller memory and CPU time. MULTI 2000 for osCAN can significantly simplify the development of osCAN-based systems by delivering detailed, kernel-aware information for developers building and debugging C, C++, EC++ and assembly language source files for OSEK-compliant automotive applications.

Designed to automate all aspects of software development for osCAN-based systems, the Green Hills MULTI 2000 IDE includes an editor, a debugger and a program builder. The IDE also provides dedicated windows for key osCAN components such as tasks, alarms, resources and messages. These windows allow the developer to quickly and easily obtain summaries of all the components of a particular type, as well as detailed information about any specific component such as ceiling priority and stack peak usage of each individual task.

MULTI 2000 includes a run-time error checker, a version control system and performance profiler and is fully integrated with Vector's OIL configurator. In addition, an instruction set simulator allows programmers to develop and test osCAN code on a PC or workstation without the need for the target hardware. At the heart of the MULTI IDE is a source-level debugger with incremental debug capability that supports kernel-aware system-level debugging.

Since many different suppliers support OSEK, there is a run-time interface standard in development known as the OSEK Run-Time Interface (ORTI). With ORTI, once a third party vendor's tool is "OSEK aware" it will work with all OSEK implementations. Green Hills Software participates on the ORTI technical committee and the first ORTI specification will soon be released (see http://www.osek-vdx.org).

The Green Hills MULTI 2000 IDE can be hosted on Windows, Solaris, HP-UX and Linux operating systems.

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Incorporated in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc., is a leading supplier of royalty-free real-time operating systems and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Green Hills' royalty-free ThreadX® and INTEGRITY® real-time operating systems, fully integrated with its market leading compilers and MULTI® integrated development environment, providing a total development and run-time solution that addresses both deeply embedded and maximum reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA., and has US offices in California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington. International headquarters are located in the United Kingdom, with offices in France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.

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