20 May 2008

GainSpan Goes With Green Hills Wi-Fi Sensor Network Solution

Gainspan, a specialist in Wi-Fi sensor network technology, has adopted solutions from Green Hill Software, an ARM Connected Community Partner, to provide the real-time communications and development platform for its GS1010 SoC, which incorporates ARM cores.

GainSpan provides Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery.

GainSpan's GS1010 SoC offers flexibility to support a wide range of products and applications with an embedded 802.11b/g radio, two 32-bit ARM7 microcontrollers, real-time clock (RTC) and power management unit, FLASH and SRAM memories along with multiple I/Os, and support for location awareness. GainSpan said it will now utilise Green Hill’s µ-velOSity real-time operating system, GHNet TCP/IP stack and other integrated middleware and the MULTI integrated development environment.

"By utilizing Green Hill's operating system, we can now offer a complete end-to-end solution which enables us to empower our customers with a robust, cost-effective application development platform that exceeds their expectations” explained Vijay Parmar, president and CEO, GainSpan.

"GainSpan's GS1010 integrates dual ARM cores, the latest in Wi-Fi technology, and a plethora of other I/O capabilities into a single ultra low-power SoC," commented David Kleidermacher, CTO, Green Hills Software. "µ-velOSity was designed precisely for applications like this”.