Green Hills Software announces the general availability of its comprehensive software development and run-time solutions for the IBM Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA). The Green Hills IBM Cell chip solutions have been in exclusive use by a select set of customers for the past six years. The Cell Broadband Engine is a multicore chip that includes a 64-bit Power Architecture processor core and eight synergistic processor cores. Developers can utilize the eight co-processors for parallel vector processing, handling compute-intensive applications like graphics and signal processing, and other applications requiring complex computations.
The comprehensive Green Hills Cell support includes: INTEGRITY RTOS with large page (16 MBytes) size support in PPE virtual address spaces; full suite of middleware, with GHS CBEA API, file systems, network stack, backplane networking, standard POSIX System Interfaces; optimizing C/C++/EC++ compilers and optimised runtime libraries for the PPE and all the SPEs; MULTI development environment; Green Hills JTAG Probe; an innovative overlay management system for partitioning and running large tasks in the limited memory of the SPEs, which optimises the utilization of both types of cores on the CBEA; a run mode debug server (speserv) for debugging all SPE tasks; an enhanced and optimised stop-mode debug server (MPserv) that stops all the other cores when a debug event is encountered; new tools to visualize and debug large-scale heterogeneous multicore systems, including system-wide breakpoints that enable the developer to halt tasks on all CBEA and non-CBEA cores.
INTEGRITY technology is certified to numerous safety and security standards in industrial safety (IEC 61508 SIL 3), railway safety (EN 50128 SWSIL 4), medical (FDA Class III), avionics (DO-178B Level A), and to EAL6+, High Robustness, the highest Common Criteria (IEC 15408) security level ever achieved for any software product.
