RTOS multicore solutions target Intel Broxton automotive SoC processors

Dan Mender, Vice President, Business Development, Green Hills Software, commented: “As cockpit automotive electronics continue to grow more visual and integrated, so do the challenges to find a software/hardware platform capable of tackling these requirements with room for future growth. With the availability of a proven automotive software platform from Green Hills and the high performance multicore, GPU-enabled Broxton automotive SoC from Intel – that future platform is available today.”

Green Hills Software’s portfolio of optimised software solutions delivers a flexible set of multicore operating system configurations, extensive on-chip OpenGL 3D graphics support, secure virtualisation and advanced multicore debug tools to enable unparallelled innovation in automotive software design. Green Hills also provides its customers with extensive legacy application porting and code optimisation services.

• INTEGRITY 64-bit RTOS – provides device total reliability and absolute security while delivering a flexible set of multicore operating system configurations, including single core Asymmetric MultiProcessing (AMP) and Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP).
• INTEGRITY Native 3D OpenGL – provides integrated, optimised native 3D OpenGL support for the Broxton on-chip Gen9 GPU.
• INTEGRITY 64-bit Multivisor Secure Virtualisation – delivers a decade of experience in safely and securely virtualising GuestOSes when combined with system safety and security applications on a single platform. Support is optimised to use the Intel VT-x and VT-d on-chip capabilities found on Broxton.
• INTEGRITY Multivisor Shared Accelerated 3D OpenGL Graphics – enables the safe combination and independent execution of both native INTEGRITY and GuestOS accelerated 3D OpenGL graphics applications/services with proven freedom from interference.
• MULTI Integrated Development Environment – provides a complete software development environment for building, debugging, testing and optimising multicore embedded applications.
• Green Hills Optimising Compilers – generate high quality code for C/C++, targeting the Intel Architecture processors.
• Green Hills Probe – helps developers find and fix bugs faster than any other probes with its comprehensive run-control and multicore processor visibility interfaces optimised to support synchronous hardware and software multicore breakpoints.
• Professional Services – Green Hills Software’s embedded experts collaborate with end user system designers and architects to tackle the difficult problems of legacy code porting; reuse; virtualisation and optimisation for QNX, VxWorks, OSE, Linux, Android, in-house and more; along with consulting services for general system performance optimisation.

The Green Hills suite of safe and secure multicore solutions for Intel’s family of Broxton Automotive processors is available now.