Date: 27/09/2010

Embedded software tools from Green Hills now supports NetLogic Micro's processor chips

Green Hills Software will provide operating system, middleware and multicore development tool support for NetLogic Microsystems' XLP family of multicore, multi-threaded processors. Green Hills Software's portfolio of software solutions includes INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) and MULTI software development tool set for NetLogic Microsystems' XLP multicore, multi-threaded processors.

Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS on NetLogic Microsystems' XLP processors support both Asymmetric Multi Processing (AMP) and Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) configurations.

Green Hills Software provides the following support for NetLogic Microsystems' XLP processors:
--INTEGRITY RTOS - Delivers a flexible set of multicore operating system configurations, including single core, Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) with support for network acceleration and offload.
--INTEGRITY Secure Networking -combines the INTEGRITY RTOS security architecture, GHNet TCP/IP v4/v6 networking stack, and GateD Layer 3 routing protocols.
--MULTI Integrated Development Environment (IDE)- provides a complete software development environment for building, debugging, testing and optimizing multicore embedded applications.
--Green Hills Optimizing C/C++ Compilers- generate code for C/C++, targeting the MIPS64 Architecture with specific support for the NetLogic Microsystems' XLP processor instruction set extensions.
--Green Hills Probe- helps developers find and fix bugs with its comprehensive run-control and multicore processor and interfaces optimized to support synchronous hardware and software multicore breakpoints.
--Professional Services-Green Hills embedded experts to collaborate with end user system designers and architects to tackle the difficult problems of legacy code porting, reuse and optimization for VxWorks, OSE, Linux, in-house operating systems and more.

"By combining up to 128 NXCPUs operating at 2GHz, the XLP processor is the industry's first quad-issue, quad-threaded, tri-level cached, multicore communications processor, and was recently rated 'an exceptional CPU well beyond the capabilities of other embedded processors' by the Microprocessor Report," stated Chris O'Reilly, vice president of marketing at NetLogic Microsystems. "We are pleased to collaborate with such a market-leading provider of RTOS and software solutions for embedded multicore processing. Our collaboration with Green Hills Software allows us to help customers achieve market-leading performance, scalability and software reliability."

"NetLogic Microsystems is driving best-in-class innovations in multicore processing technology, and we are excited to partner with the company on its XLP processor family," said David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer of Green Hills Software. "Our proven and broadly adopted embedded multicore software products will be highly optimized for the XLP multicore, multi-threaded processors through this collaboration with NetLogic Microsystems."