Green Hills Software extends support for Cavium Networks OCTEON II family of multicore microprocessors

Green Hills Software’s feature-rich portfolio of software solutions has been optimized to support Cavium’s OCTEON II specialised networking and security accelerators. These enhancements provide customers the ability to utilise the unique processor-specific capabilities in the OCTEON II to achieve the highest performance and throughput possible, while delivering proven, comprehensive multicore debugging capabilities for the complex, million-line-plus applications found in today’s networking and telecom systems.

The OCTEON II processors, with 8 to 32 MIPS64® cores, deliver up to a 4x performance increase and up to 3x improvement in performance/watt over OCTEON Plus processors, enabling Cavium’s OEM customers to deliver breakthrough next-generation solutions, which address critical inflection points, in an optimized, energy efficient manner.

“Green Hills is well known for providing excellent tools that deliver very high performance,” said Rajiv Khemani, vice president and general manager, Networking and Communications Division, Cavium Networks. “With the addition of Green Hills support for our new OCTEON II processors, customers can maximise their product performance while finding and fixing software bugs in the fastest manner possible.”

“Cavium’s new OCTEON II family raises the bar for both the performance and functionality available in today’s multicore internet application processors,” stated Tim Reed, general manager, Advanced Products Division, Green Hills Software. “Our mature, proven multicore software products are enabled to take full advantage of OCTEON’s performance-driven capabilities, allowing joint customers to unleash the full power designed into these next-generation multicore processors.”