13 September 2005

Green Hills: Device Software Optimisation For Eclipse Users

Green Hills Software, Inc. has confirmed that users of the Eclipse framework and its C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) can now take advantage of the Development Software Optimisation (DSO) capabilities of its MULTI development environment and C/C++ compilers.

Green Hills Software's tools have been integrated with the standard version of the latest Eclipse 3.1 and CDT 3.0 distributions from eclipse.org. With Green Hills Software's solution, developers can use their existing Eclipse and CDT implementations - all extensions required for device software development are handled by the MULTI environment.
"Green Hills Software lets developers take advantage of the best of both the Eclipse and device software optimization worlds," commented Dan O'Dowd, founder and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software. "MULTI provides the best-in-class tools for device software optimization. Eclipse is gaining in popularity as a framework for enterprise-wide tools integration. By adding our device software capabilities to the IT-centric Eclipse, we enable developers to leverage the strengths of each environment."

"Our Eclipse customers adopted it because they want to deploy a standard, vendor-independent tools framework across their enterprise," added David Kleidermacher, vice president of engineering at Green Hills Software. "They don't want to be locked-in to a single vendor's customised version of Eclipse or, worse, to have to deploy multiple vendor-proprietary Eclipse implementations. That would put them right back to where they were before Eclipse. This is why Green Hills Software's tools work out-of-the-box with customers' existing Eclipse environments."

MULTI supports 25 different 32- and 64-bit target processor families, including ARM. MULTI supports the target operating systems, including Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY and velOSity; Express Logic's ThreadX, which is available from and supported by Green Hills Software; VxWorks; OSE; Linux; Windows; Solaris; in-house operating systems; and systems with no operating system.

Eclipse integration for Green Hills Software's MULTI development environment and optimizing C/C++ compilers is available now.