Santa Barbara, CA. April 5, 1999. Green Hills Software, Inc. today announced that FlightSafety International's Simulation Systems Division has selected Green Hills Software's AdaMULTI software development tools for use in building flight simulators for the U.S. military. The simulators provide full cockpit and out-the-window capability, encompassing flight, control loading, navigation, power plant and aircraft systems. The simulation software, written in Ada 95 using Green Hills Software's AdaMULTI development tools, runs on a Pentium-based embedded PC under the VxWorks® real-time operating system.
"We're pleased to have been selected by FlightSafety for its military flight simulation project," said John Carbone, vice president of marketing at Green Hills Software. "Our Ada 95 tools offer unmatched real-time capability and are ideal for coordinating the large development teams that work on complex embedded Ada 95 projects like flight simulators."
"Traditionally", added Dan Sossamon, software team leader at FlightSafety International, "flight simulators have required specialized microcomputers to achieve the necessary performance. Our Pentium-based simulators, which leverage code optimizations provided by AdaMULTI, and real-time facilities provided by both AdaMULTI and VxWorks, enable us to meet our performance requirements using PC platforms that cost a tenth that of traditional simulator microcomputers. We've also been pleased with Green Hills' excellent support and the ability of AdaMULTI to support multiple programmers working simultaneously on the same simulation project."
The AdaMULTI software development environment automates all aspects of Ada 95 software development. Fully integrated with Wind River Systems' Tornado framework, AdaMULTI features a fully validated Ada 95 optimizing compiler, source-level debugger, and graphical program builder. AdaMULTI also features a version control system, a code performance and coverage profiler, a source code navigation and cross reference browser, and call graph display.
The Green Hills Ada 95 compiler implements all of the enhancemets defined in the ANSI/ISO/IEC-8652:1995 Ada 95 specification, including: object-oriented programming, hierarchical library organization, type extensions of tagged types and child library units, and new task and synchronization features such as protected types. The compiler also implements two optional Ada 95 annexes (Systems Programming and Real-Time Systems) and provides specialized VxWorks, Solaris and Win32 support that enables Ada 95 tasks to be implemented as either VxWorks tasks or Solaris threads (for self-hosted Unix applications) and Win32 tasks for self-hosted Windows applications.
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Incorporated in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc., is a leading supplier of software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Green Hills offers a family of optimizing C, C++, Embedded C++, Ada 95, FORTRAN and Pascal compilers. The company’s unique MULTI software development environment automates the compile-edit-build-debug cycle by integrating advanced facilities such as an RTOS-aware source-level debugger, performance profiler, program builder and version control system.
Green Hills Software's tools support all major 32-bit and 64-bit advanced microprocessor families and target environments, including instruction set simulators, ROM Monitors, commercial and home grown real-time operating systems (RTOS) and in-circuit emulators (ICE).
Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA., and has US offices in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Florida. International headquarters are located in the United Kingdom, with offices in France, Germany, and the Netherlands. For sales information on Green Hills Software's products, please call 1-805-965-6044 or email inquiries to sales@ghs.com.
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