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News Release from: Green Hills Software | Subject: Software development package for 405EZ
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 February 2008
Development package supports Power
Architecture
Toolkit includes RTOSs, compilers, integrated development environment, a virtual prototyping platform, static analyser and high-speed hardware debug probes.
Green Hills Software has produced a comprehensive software development package for the 405EZ Power Architecture embedded processor from Applied Micro Circuit Corporation (AMCC) The development toolkit includes: royalty-free RTOSs, optimising C/C++ compilers for Power Architecture, the Multi integrated development environment, a virtual prototyping platform, the DoubleCheck integrated static analyser, and high-speed hardware debug probes
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Green Hills Software's industry leading software development and operating system solutions are ideally suited to the industrial control and industrial automation markets for which the AMCC PowerPC 405EZ was designed", says Charlie Ashton, Director of Software at AMCC.
"Customers will benefit from the extensive Green Hills software ecosystem built around this platform".
"We have been so impressed with the performance, power and I/O capabilities of the AMCC Power Architecture microprocessors, that we decided to use one as the primary processing unit within our next-generation Green Hills Probe - the world's fastest debug probe", says David Kleidermacher, Chief Technology Officer, Green Hills Software.
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"The combination of the Green Hills software solutions and AMCC's PowerPC processors provides a compelling productivity and cost proposition for embedded systems developers".
The Green Hills solution for the PowerPC 405EZ consists of the following components: the Multi integrated development environment - providing the industry leading DSO tool set for embedded software developers; Green Hills Power Architecture compilers - generating the fastest and smallest code in the industry for Power Architecture (formerly known as PowerPC); the Green Hills Probe - providing reliable and efficient debugging using the Power Architecture 405EZ JTAG port; and the Integrity real-time operating system - high performance, total reliability, and certified by TUV to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3) of the IEC61508 safety standard.
With speeds up to 400MHz, a flexible on-chip and off-chip memory architecture, a combination of ADC, DAC and configurable Chameleon Timer/PWM, and a diverse connectivity package, the Power Architecture 405EZ embedded processor provides a low-power and small-footprint system-on-chip for a wide range of high performance, cost-constrained embedded applications.
Applications include industrial control, high-precision AC, DC and servo drive control, instrumentation, data acquisition, industrial automation, building and enclosure management, commercial and retail systems, Internet appliances, and intelligent USB peripherals.
It is an easily programmable general purpose 32bit RISC embedded processor that offers an ideal upgrade path for applications currently using 8bit, 16bit, RISC or DSP MCUs needing performance and connectivity improvements. Request a free brochure from Green Hills Software ...
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