Green Hills Software and Freescale Semiconductor have entered into a multi-year strategic agreement to develop and sell single and multicore operating systems and tools for Freescale’s QorIQ and PowerQUICC processor families.
According to Dan O’Dowd, chief executive officer and founder, Green Hills Software: “This agreement sends a clear message to the market.”
“This partnership will expand the wide array of pre-integrated and highly optimized world-class solutions that our mutual customers rely upon,” said O’Dowd.
As part of this multi-year alliance, Green Hills will expand upon its long-term support for Freescale’s families of single and multicore processors with development and debug software.
”In addition to Freescale’s current family of processors based on Power Architecture technology, customers can look forward to future Freescale processor support that is optimised through this collaboration at early stages of processor availability,” said Raja Tabet, v-p of Software and Systems for Freescale’s Networking and Multimedia Group.
The software includes Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS), INTEGRITY Secure Virtualization, MULTI integrated development environment (IDE), optimizing C/C++ compilers, TimeMachine Debugging Suite, SuperTrace Probe and Green Hills Probe.