Green Hills Software Selected by Altair Semiconductor for 4G Wireless Broadband Solutions

“We selected Green Hills Software after conducting an extensive analysis of the solutions in the market, said Nohik Semel, vice president of systems engineering, Altair Semiconductor. “The Green Hills compilers showed excellent performance and memory footprint, which was particularly important for us given the speed and power constraints imposed by 4G systems. The hardware and software tools have helped us considerably in the development of the firmware for our products.”

Altair is a leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets for the 4G wireless broadband technology LTE (Long Term Evolution). LTE meets the requirements of next generation networks including downlink peak rates of at least 100Mbit/s and uplink of at least 50Mbit/s. The company's product portfolio, which utilizes cores from MIPS Technologies, includes baseband processors, multi-band RF transceivers and a range of reference hardware and product level protocol stack software.

Christopher Smith, vice president of marketing, Green Hills Software, commented, “The next generation of wireless communication technologies operates at data rates and bandwidths that put increasing demands on semiconductor and system developers. In order to optimize the performance and power consumption of the components, it is important to develop the most efficient code possible in the shortest time. This is where Green Hills Software’s development tool chain has a proven track record across a broad range of applications.”

About Green Hills Tools
The Green Hills MULTI IDE (integrated development environment) combines a powerful debugger, editor, code browser, configuration manager, and other tools into one integrated package that enables the development of code efficiently. The MULTI IDE uses Green Hills Software's optimizing C, C++ and embedded C++ compilers to generate the fastest and smallest code for 32- and 64-bit processors. Green Hills Software compilers consistently outperform competing compilers.