Green Hills Software is offering a software development and deployment environment for safety-critical industrial devices.

Called the Platform for Industrial Safety, it includes the royalty-free Integrity‑61508 real-time operating system (RTOS), the MULTI development environment and Integrity-61508 source code.

According to the supplier, it is the first RTOS that provides complete support for multiple levels of IEC 61508 functional safety running concurrently on a single microprocessor. In addition, SIL3 certification will be available for a range of target microprocessors.

The secure partitioning capability of the RTOS means that software from non safety-related through safety critical can be partitioned on a single processor. Each partition can then be certified at its appropriate Safety Integrity Level, eliminating the need for separate physical systems or to certify code beyond the required safety level.

The Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety will be available when certification is complete, currently projected in the fourth quarter of 2005 for ARM, Blackfin, ColdFire, MIPS, PowerPC, StrongArm, x86/Pentium and XScale processors.

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