Green Hills Software

Green Hills Software Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Embedded systems tools
Founded	1982
Headquarters	Santa Barbara, California
Key people	Dan O'Dowd, founder and president
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Green Hills Software is a privately owned company that builds operating systems and development tools for embedded systems. The company was founded in 1982 by Dan O'Dowd and Carl Rosenberg. Its headquarters are in Santa Barbara, California.

History

Green Hills Software and Wind River Systems enacted a 99-year contract as cooperative peers in the embedded software engineering market throughout the 1990s, with their relationship ending in a series of lawsuits throughout the early 2000s. This resulted in their opposite parting of ways, whereupon Wind River devoted itself to publicly embrace Linux and open-source software but Green Hills initiated a public relations campaign to decry its use in issues of national security.

In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178 RTOS was the first system to be certified by National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), composed of NSA and NIST, to EAL 6+.

By November, 2008, it was announced that a commercialized version of Integrity 178-B will be available to be sold to the private sector by Integrity Global Security, a subsidiary of Green Hills Software.

On March 27, 2012, a contract was announced between Green Hills Software and Nintendo. This designates MULTI as the official integrated development environment and toolchain for Nintendo and its licensed developers to program the Wii U video game console.

On February 25, 2014, it was announced that Green Hills Software's real-time operating system (RTOS) had been chosen by Urban Aeronautics for the AirMule.

Selected products

Real-time operating systems

INTEGRITY is a POSIX real-time operating system (RTOS). A variant of this RTOS, named INTEGRITY-178B, was certified to Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 6+, High Robustness in November 2008. Micro Velosity (stylized as "µ-velOSity") is a real-time microkernel for resource-constrained devices.

Compilers

Green Hills produces compilers for C, C++, Fortran, and Ada. The compilers target 32- and 64-bit platforms, including ARC, ARM, Blackfin, ColdFire, MIPS, PowerPC, SuperH, StarCore, x86, V850, and XScale.

Integrated development environments

MULTI is an IDE for C, C++, EC++, and Ada, aimed at embedded engineers.

TimeMachine is a set of tools for optimizing and debugging C and C++ software. TimeMachine (introduced 2003) supports reverse debugging like that in the open-source GDB 7.0 debugger (2009).