Green Hills software supports Octeon II processors

The Octeon II IAP processor range fuels the voice, video and data convergence driven by mobile internet, enterprise and data-centre applications.

Green Hills Software's feature-rich portfolio of software solutions has been optimised to support Cavium's Octeon II specialised networking and security accelerators.

These enhancements allow customers to utilise the unique processor-specific capabilities in the Octeon II to achieve high performance and throughput, while delivering proven, comprehensive multicore debugging capabilities for the complex, million-line-plus applications found in today's networking and telecom systems.

The Octeon II processors, with 8 to 32 MIPS64 cores, deliver up to a four-fold performance increase and up to a three-fold improvement in performance/Watt over Octeon Plus processors.

This enables Cavium's OEM customers to deliver breakthrough next-generation solutions that address critical inflection points in an optimised, energy-efficient manner.

Green Hills Software's solutions for Cavium deliver a flexible set of multicore operating-system configurations, extensive networking support and advanced multicore debug tools to optimise multicore software design.

The Integrity real-time operating system provides total reliability and security while delivering a flexible set of multicore operating-system configurations, including single core, asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) with support for network acceleration and offload.

Integrity Secure Networking combines the Integrity RTOS security architecture, its advanced GHNet TCP/IP v4/v6 networking stack, and GateD Layer 3 routing protocols, delivering unmatched security and reliability without compromising system throughput.

The Multi Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides a complete software-development environment for building, debugging, testing and optimising multicore embedded applications for the Octeon II IAP.

Green Hills Optimizing C/C++ Compilers generate the smallest and fastest code for C and C++, targeting the cnMIPS64 Architecture with specific support for the Octeon II instruction set extensions.

Green Hills Probe helps developers find and fix bugs faster than any other probes.

It features comprehensive run-control and multicore processor-visibility interfaces optimised to support synchronous hardware and software multicore breakpoints.

Green Hills embedded experts collaborate with end-user system designers and architects to tackle the difficult problems of legacy code porting, reuse and optimisation for VxWorks, OSE, Linux, in-house operating systems and more, along with consulting services for general system-performance optimisation.

The Green Hills suite of multicore solutions for Cavium's range of Octeon II processors will be commercially available following hardware availability from Cavium.

Legacy RTOS and application porting services are available today.