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News Release from: Green Hills Software | Subject: Multi 5.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 October 2006
IDE expands for improved design
efficiency
The latest version of the Multi IDE includes a source code analyser, a distributed project builder and a high speed target system prototyping and simulation tool.
Green Hills Software has announced several major new products as part of its Multi 5.0 release: a source code analyser, a distributed project builder and a high speed target system prototyping and simulation tool These new products further extend Multi's ability to improve developer efficiency and the quality of the resulting software
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Whereas other static analysis tools are relegated to sporadic use by quality assurance teams, DoubleCheck can be enabled by all developers all the time, ensuring that bugs are found and eradicated as quickly as possible.
Because it is integrated with the Multi IDE, no extra work is needed to ensure that DoubleCheck can handle even the largest source code bases.
DoubleCheck generates reports that can be conveniently browsed with any web client.
While other static analysis products cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year with per-line of code fees, DoubleCheck is available with a Multi 5.0 development seat, thereby maximising the enterprise-wide investment in developer IDEs.
Multi 5.0 introduces a new distributed build environment that enables developers to take advantage of a site's computing resources, which are often idle and underutilised, to build applications in parallel over the network.
The distributed build system is easy to configure and automatically detects when network compute resources are available for builds.
Distributed builds often result in immediate build time reductions of between 30% and 80%.
Faster builds enable developers to integrate and test software modifications more quickly, speeding time to market.
Multi 5.0 has a new prototyping tool that provides a 10-50x performance speed-up over traditional instruction set simulators by employing dynamic binary translation technology.
Although engineers have always understood the benefits of simulation technology, the promise has often fallen short, when the simulation runs too slowly to be of practical, everyday use.
Multi's simulator, however, will often outstrip the performance of the actual target, making it ideal for teams that need to share a limited number of boards and/or need a head start on development, when hardware is not yet ready.
The simulator also has a plug-in DLL architecture that enables the integration of custom peripheral simulations, rounding out a complete system prototyping platform.
"Distributed builds, source code analysis, and fast simulators enable faster time to market while generating a more reliable product", said Tom Zavisca, Director of Engineering at Green Hills Software.
"With these new product introductions, Green Hills Software has again extended its technology lead in device software optimisation by bringing enterprises a value proposition that will greatly benefit their product development process".
These new products are part of Multi 5.0 and will be available in Q4 2006. Request a free brochure from Green Hills Software ...
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