Green Hills Software Expands Safety System Development with Texas Instruments’ AM26x MCU Portfolio
Green Hills Software, a global leader in embedded safety and security, has expanded its industry-leading product and service offerings by adding support for Texas Instruments’ (TI) new AM26x high-performance microcontrollers (MCUs). This includes the AM263x, AM263Px, and AM261x MCU portfolios. The company’s ISO 26262 ASIL D-certified µ-velOSity™ real-time operating system (RTOS) provides a compact, safety-certified, high-performance foundation, while the MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE) accelerates software development and debugging for products using the AM26x MCUs. This integrated solution is ideal for software-defined vehicles and automated factories requiring safety certification, real-time processing, advanced motor control, and edge analytics.
Optimized Safety-Certified Solutions
To support functional safety solutions in multicore environments, Green Hills Software offers a comprehensive, safety-certified software platform that simplifies development despite increasing code complexity. The Green Hills solutions for the AM26x MCU portfolio meet stringent safety certification standards, including industrial (IEC 61508), rail (EN 50128/50657), and automotive (ISO 26262).
Na Kong, Automotive Application Specific MCU Product Line Manager at TI, stated, “The AM26x high-performance microcontrollers provide the real-time control capabilities essential for motor control and digital power applications. Green Hills Software’s safety-certified solutions offer developers an intuitive and streamlined pathway to market for their safety-critical designs.”
Dan Mender, Vice President of Business Development at Green Hills Software, added, “Through our collaboration with Texas Instruments, we enable customers with optimized software and hardware solutions for next-generation safety systems. This powerful combination ensures rapid development, efficient debugging, and cost-effective, timely delivery of safety-certified solutions across various industrial and automotive applications.”
A Comprehensive Development Environment
Green Hills Software’s AM26x MCU safety solutions provide a fully integrated and validated environment, simplifying software development and deployment for production-ready designs.
Key Features:
- µ-velOSity RTOS: Safety-certified, compact, efficient execution with a simple API.
- TI Driver Porting Layer (DPL) Integration: Provides seamless access to device driver support for AM263x, AM263Px, and AM261x.
- MULTI IDE and TimeMachine® Debugger: Enables both forward and backward debugging in program execution.
- TI SysConfig Integration: Visualizes and automates AM26x MCU driver configuration.
- History® Viewer: Provides an intuitive visualization of system events correlated to source code.
- Safety-Certified C/C++ Compilers & Libraries: Ensures highest performance and minimal code size.
- MISRA C Adherence Wizard: Enforces MISRA C coding standards.
- DoubleCheck™ Static Code Analysis: Identifies errors early in the development cycle.
- Green Hills Probe: Enables high-speed, multicore trace and JTAG debugging.
Enhanced Debugging and Optimization
Green Hills Software’s solutions include powerful debugging and optimization tools that enhance development efficiency:
- Multicore OS-aware Debugging: Reduces time spent troubleshooting complex systems.
- TimeMachine Debugging: Enables trace-powered, back-in-time debugging for rapid issue resolution.
- Efficient Resource Utilization: Green Hills’ Optimizing Compilers for C/C++ generate the smallest, highest-performance code.
- Early Issue Detection: The DoubleCheck static analysis tool runs automatically during compilation to identify and resolve potential software issues sooner.
Meeting Critical Safety and Security Standards
Green Hills Software’s safety-certified products meet the highest industry standards:
- µ-velOSity RTOS and Compilers are certified for ISO 26262 ASIL D (Automotive), IEC 61508 SIL 3 (Industrial), and EN 50128/50657 SIL 4 (Railway).
- Dedicated Safety Engineering Services help customers design and certify their safety systems.
- TI AM26x MCUs offer up to four 400MHz Arm® Cortex®-R5F cores, configurable for lockstep or dual-core mode supporting ASIL D.
- Advanced Security Features include cryptographic acceleration, secure boot via a Hardware Security Module (HSM), Error-Correcting Code (ECC), Built-In Self-Test (BIST), and additional processor integrity checks.
Availability
The safety-certified µ-velOSity RTOS and MULTI IDE for the AM26x MCU portfolio are available now and fully compatible with TI’s AM26x LaunchPad hardware platforms.
Green Hills Software
Green Hills Software is a global leader in embedded safety and security. In 2008, its INTEGRITY®-178 RTOS became the first and only operating system to receive an EAL 6+, High Robustness certification from the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), a collaboration between NSA and NIST. Green Hills’ open architecture development solutions support mission-critical applications in aerospace, automotive, industrial, medical, networking, and consumer electronics. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, the company also maintains a European headquarters in the United Kingdom.
