Green Hills Software accelerates safety system development with Texas Instruments’ new AM26x microcontroller platform
Summary
Combined hardware / software solution delivers a streamlined development workflow to create and deploy products optimized for the TI AM26x MCU portfolio while supporting the highest safety certification levels for industrial and automotive Green Hills Software, the worldwide leader in embedded safety and security, today announced the expansion of its industry-leading products and services for microcontrollers by adding support for the newest Texas Instruments (TI) AM26x high-performance microcontrollers (MCUs) including the AM263x, AM263Px, and AM261x MCU portfolios. This integrated platform is ideal for automated factories and software-defined vehicle electronics that require safety-certification, real-time processing, advanced motor-control topologies, and analytics at the edge. • – The Green Hills products are tightly integrated with AM26x MCUs and include: • µ-velOSity RTOS – safety-certified, small footprint, simple API, efficient execution • TI Driver Porting Layer (DPL) Integration – instant access to complete device driver support for the AM263x/AM263Px/AM261x • MULTI IDE and multicore debugger with TimeMachine® that debugs forward and backward in program execution • History® Viewer – intuitive visualization of system events over time, correlated to source code • MISRA C Adherence Wizard – Integrated enforcement of MISRA C rules • DoubleCheck™ – for user-based static source code analysis at the time of link and compile • Green Hills Probe for high-speed, multicore trace and JTAG debugging and board bring-up • – Green Hills Optimizing Compilers for C/C++ produce the smallest code with the highest performance. • – Static source code analysis with DoubleCheck automatically runs during compilation, enabling engineers to detect and resolve problems more efficiently and earlier in the development cycle. • The µ-velOSity RTOS and Green Hills Compilers and run-time libraries are certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D (Automotive), IEC 61508 SIL 3 (Industrial) and EN 50128/50657 SIL 4 (Railway) • The safety team at Green Hills offers services to help customers design and certify their safety systems • The AM26x MCU portfolio has multiple pin-to-pin compatible devices with up to four 400MHz Arm® Cortex®-R5F cores that can be programmed to run in lockstep or dual-core mode supporting ASIL D • Other safety and security hardware features include: cryptographic acceleration and secure boot through a Hardware Security Module (HSM), Error-Correcting Code (ECC), Built-In Self-Test (BIST) and other processor integrity checking