NUREMBERG, GERMANY, Mar 02 (MARKET WIRE) —
Embedded World 2010, Hall 10 Booth 10-319 — Green Hills Software, Inc.,
the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today
announced that its Platform for Industrial Safety has expanded its safety
certification support by achieving a SWSIL 4 certification for its
INTEGRITY(R) RTOS (real-time operating system) against the stringent
CENELEC EN 50128 standard, which targets software for railway control and
protection systems. Certified by both TUV and Exida, INTEGRITY has
received the highest assurance level possible against this safety
standard for an individual software component, such as an operating
system.
The certified INTEGRITY operating system forms the core of the Green
Hills Platform for Industrial Safety, a comprehensive solution comprised
of tools, operating system, secure guest OS virtualization, services, and
middleware aimed at reliability-critical industrial control,
transportation, railway, nuclear control and automation systems. By
incorporating the Green Hills certified operating system into
safety-critical systems, along with available middleware and support
services from Green Hills, customers significantly reduce their risks,
development costs, and time to certify their end products.
“As one of the largest technical service providers in Germany and a
leader in functional safety certification services, TUV NORD SysTec sees
a growing demand for functional safety requirements in many new control
system design starts,” commented Gerhard Rieger, Dipl.-Ing, TUV NORD
SysTec. “By achieving the EN 50128 safety certification for its INTEGRITY
operating system, Green Hills is positioned to support this growing
demand with safety-proven solutions for its end customers.”
By adopting Green Hills Software’s safety-certified INTEGRITY RTOS,
developers are able to safely partition independent applications of
multiple levels of safety criticality concurrently on a single processor
and platform. The INTEGRITY safety-proven architecture enables
applications to be partitioned in a way to ensure that an error or
failure in one application cannot impact or compromise another
application.
“This new certification gives Green Hills customers who are building
railway and transportation systems a proven safety platform to base their
software applications on,” commented Rainer Faller, managing director,
Exida GmbH. “Green Hills has always been a leader in delivering safe,
secure solutions to its customers and its Platform for Industrial Safety
is a leading example.”
“The growth worldwide in new railway and transportation design projects
is significant. And with this comes significant growth in software
complexity and code size for these new designs,” commented Dan Mender,
vice president business development, Green Hills Software. “With the
addition of the EN 50128 safety certification for railway/transportation,
the Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety, along with its large
contingent of partners in this market, provides our end customers with
the shortest time-to-market, least risk approach for development and
delivery of these critical next-generation systems.”
The Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety delivers the following:
INTEGRITY real-time operating system with certification by TUV and Exida
to the International Electrotechnical Commission IEC 61508 and CENELEC EN
50128 standards at Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) and Safety Integrity
Level 4 (SWSIL 4) respectively; a safety manual; IEC 61508 SIL 3 and EN
50128 SWSIL 4 certificates and reports; a MULTI Confidence-from-Use
report (optional), along with optional middleware and a broad group of
industry leading partners targeting the industrial and functional safety
marketplace.
About EN 50128
The railway industry requirements are defined by CENELEC,
the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization. The standard
EN 50128 “software for railway control and protection systems” represents
the railway application-specific interpretation of the international
standard series – IEC 61508 (functional safety of electrical/
electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems). The EN 50128
standard describes software safety integrity levels and identifies
requirements for personnel and their responsibilities, lifecycle issues
and documentation. Meeting the well-defined, stringent EN 50128
requirements involves supporting a systematic development process,
emphasizing requirements traceability, criticality analysis and
validation.
SUPPORTING PARTNER QUOTES
Freescale Semiconductor
“Green Hills Software’s safety certification
expansion to its Platform for Industrial Safety increases an already
strong joint offering between a leading independent software provider and
Freescale, a leading microprocessor provider to the industrial market.
Green Hills’ complete coverage for our Power Architecture, QorIQ, i.MX
and ColdFire line of processors offer customers the broadest range of
choices when designing next-generation devices for industrial,
railway/transportation and medical markets.”
Reza Kazerounian, senior
vice president and general manager, Microcontroller Solutions Group,
Freescale Semiconductor
Texas Instruments
“Green Hills Software’s safety-proven, scalable
support for our ARM-based Stellaris and Sitara families has been key to
growing design win success with both industrial and medical customers
worldwide. With the Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety, our
customers can seamlessly utilize a superior development environment
coupled with a safe and secure operating system offering for our Cortex
M3, ARM926 and Cortex A8 processors. This ultimately helps our customers
achieve the highest system reliability in the shortest design timeframe.”
Ram Sathappan, ARM End Equipments Manager, Texas Instruments
Vector Software
“Vector Software and Green Hills have been working
together for over ten years, delivering software solutions to numerous
safety markets including industrial, railway and medical. Vector’s tight
integration with Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI integrated
development environment and our joint ability to meet the EN 50128
software verification requirements, greatly reduces time-to-certification
and time-to-market as a result from this partnership.”
William
McCaffrey, co-founder, Vector Software
Esterel Technologies
“Esterel Technologies is a leader in providing
model-based development and verification tools for mission- and
safety-critical embedded systems, and is tailored for the CENELEC EN
50128 standard. With Green Hills Software’s new safety certification for
its INTEGRITY operating system, coupled with Esterel’s SCADE suite for
generating EN 50128-certified application code, customers can develop and
deploy safe, CENELEC-certified software solutions in record time and with
significant cost savings.”
Jim McElroy, vice president, corporate
marketing and business development,
Esterel Technologies
Raima, a Division of Birdstep Technology
“As one of the leading
providers of advanced embedded database technologies for programs within
the safety and security market, Raima applauds Green Hills Software’s
accomplishment in receiving this additional safety certification for its
INTEGRITY operating system. The product combination of the Green Hills
Platform for Industrial Safety and Raima’s proven embedded database
solutions deliver increased system reliability with reduced
time-to-market for customers’ next-generation railway and industrial
programs.”
Steinar Sande, CEO, Raima
Swell Software / Trinity Convergence
“Our PEG(R) line of graphical user
interface software has been successfully deployed in numerous
safety-related applications on Green Hills operating systems over the
last decade. With its latest safety certification targeting railway and
transportation, the Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety combined
with our PEG GUI development tools and prototyping software, provides a
ready-made platform to address the growing graphics needs in this market
in a safe, reliable manner.”
Jeff Schline, director, partner and
marketing programs, Swell Software
About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc.
is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. In
2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only
operating system to be certified by the NSA to EAL6+ High Robustness, the
highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Our
open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply
embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the
military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer
and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills
Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European
headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at
www.ghs.com.
Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, and INTEGRITY are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. in the U.S. and/or
internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Contacts:
Green Hills Software, Inc.
Barbel French
+1 805-965-6044
bfrench@ghs.com
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