MIPS processors benefit from Green Hills Software tools

Tony King-Smith, Imagination

Green Hills Software’s embedded software can now be used for designs incorporating MIPS Aptiv cores and MIPS Warrior family of cores, comprised of the entry-level M-class cores, mid-range I-class cores and high-performance P-class cores.

The Microchip PIC32 portfolio of 32-bit microcontrollers are based on MIPS microAptiv cores.

Green Hills Software is also upgrading capability to deliver fully optimized support for the microMIPS code compression instruction set architecture (ISA) and the latest MIPS r5 architecture, including key features such as hardware virtualization.

“Green Hills has a long history of support for MIPS, and we are continuing that tradition through this comprehensive new agreement,” said Mike Haden, general manager, Advanced Products, Green Hills Software. “Under Imagination, we are seeing growing demand for MIPS.”

“Green Hills is a great strategic partner for Imagination, and this new agreement reflects growing demand across several key markets. We look forward to working together to help drive the future of mobile and embedded software engineering, and the future of heterogeneous processing,” said Tony King-Smith, executive v-p marketing, Imagination.

MIPS CPU support from Green Hills Software includes its C/C++ compiler, assembler and linker, binary toolchain, MULTI integrated development environment (IDE), Green Hills Probe, SuperTrace(TM) Probe and documentation.