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News Release from: Green Hills Software | Subject: ECU software development for MPC5510
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 June 2007
Software supports Freescale's automotive
drive
Comprehensive ECU software development solution targets Freescale's MPC5510 microcontroller family.
Green Hills Software has developed a comprehensive ECU software development solution for Freescale's MPC5510 microcontroller family, built on Power Architecture technology Components of the Green Hills Software development toolkit include: royalty-free RTOSs, optimising C/C++ compilers for Power Architecture, the Multi integrated development environment (IDE) with multicore debugger, virtual prototyping platform, TimeMachine tool suite and high-speed Nexus hardware probes
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We welcome Green Hills Software's support for our MPC5510 family as our customers create the next wave of in-vehicle central body and gateway applications based on our high-performance Power Architecture MCUs", says Ray Cornyn, Director of Freescale's Automotive Microcontrollers Operations.
"Green Hills Software compilers help our customers unlock the exceptional performance of our dual-core MPC5510 MCUs while keeping code sise to a minimum".
"We are pleased to announce the addition of MPC5510 support to the Green Hills Software Platform for Automotive Systems", says David Kleidermacher, Chief Technology Officer, Green Hills Software.
"The MPC5510 with its low-power, dual-core architecture, enables ECU consolidation to improve size, weight, and power efficiency for next-generation automotive systems".
"Multicore architectures like the MPC5510, however, require a new generation of powerful development tools - including Multi and TimeMachine".
"These provide the visibility, control, and optimised execution profile, which enable developers to migrate and reuse software successfully".
Carmakers and their tier-1 suppliers throughout the world have sold millions of automobiles and trucks with ECUs developed with Green Hills Software's compilers, because they trust the quality of the generated code and because they depend on a compiler to exploit the silicon's optimisation features.
Smaller code footprint and faster execution translate directly into lower production cost and higher quality for embedded products, while high-quality code generation avoids costly after-sale product changes or even recalls.
Green Hills Software's compilers lead the world in independent compiler benchmark scores for performance and small footprint of generated code.
Freescale has used the Green Hills compilers to publish certified scores on the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) suite.
The Multi TimeMachine tool suite offers a wide variety of trace analysis tools that enable embedded software developers to find and fix bugs faster, optimise with ease, and test with confidence.
TimeMachine provides unprecedented visibility into the complex interactions in software that can result in bugs, performance problems, and testing nightmares.
With more than ten thousand users, such as developers at Ford and Toyota, the Multi integrated development environment is a proven multicore technology for ECU software development.
Green Hills Software's family of RTOSs - Integrity, Velosity and micro-Velosity - enables automotive application engineers to develop a software base that can evolve to different ECU applications running on the Freescale MPC55xx family.
The MPC5510 family of 32bit microcontrollers is Freescale's latest achievement in integrated automotive MCUs designed to address the next wave of central body and gateway applications within the vehicle.
The MPC5510 family is the first line of 32bit automotive MCUs featuring a dual-core architecture with flexible low-power modes.
Built on Power Architecture technology, the MPC5510 family delivers a range of price/performance options and supports extensive communications capabilities, including the FlexRay technology, controller area network (CAN) and local interconnect network (LIN).
MPC5510 family devices operate at speeds of up to 80MHzwith two e200z cores offering high-performance processing and flexibility while continuing to address low power requirements.
Green Hills Software's Optimising C/C++ compilers, advanced debugger and the Multi IDE are available today for MPC5510-based application development.
TimeMachine is available today for the integrated instruction set simulator.
Support for Green Hills RTOSs, SuperTrace probe and Green Hills probe will soon follow. Request a free brochure from Green Hills Software ...
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