NUREMBERG, Germany, March 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- embedded world 2017, Hall 4, Stand 325 -- Green Hills Software, the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced its latest Optimizing C and C++ Compilers for the world's most popular 32-bit and 64-bit embedded processor architectures, including ARM®, Intel® and Power Architecture®. Enhanced support for the C++11 language, updated functional safety certification and NEON™ autovectorization lead the list of the many important compiler and toolchain enhancements. Compiler 2017 is an important component in the MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE), used by thousands of developers to be more productive, generate faster code, decrease code size and enhance maintainability when creating today's IoT and embedded applications.
Performance
The Green Hills Optimizing Compilers 2017 build upon 34 years of industry-leading performance optimizations and are applied today to 32/64-bit architectures from ARM, Intel, Power Architecture, Renesas RH850, MIPS and Tricore™. New hardware-specific optimizations include:
Processor manufacturers have chosen Green Hills compilers more than all other competing compilers when publishing their highest processor performance scores on EEMBC® Benchmarks – the industry standard benchmarks for embedded systems.
Safety and Reliability
Green Hills Software continues its significant investment to maintain functional safety qualification for its C/C++ Compilers, toolchain and C/C++ runtime libraries, certified to meet the highest levels of functional safety levels for ISO 26262 ASIL D (Automotive), IEC 61508 SIL 4 (Industrial) and EN 50128 SWSIL 4 (Railway) standards. In addition, the integrated single-pass MISRA-C adherence checker gives development teams a flexible means to enforce cleaner, higher-quality code.
New enhancements in Compiler 2017 yield increased code determinism and reliability such as:
Convenience and Productivity
Upgraded support brings increased code performance and powerful developer productivity and convenience. Some of the important features are:
Availability
Green Hills Compiler 2017 Initial Release is available today to qualified customers.
About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the largest independent software vendor for the Internet of Things (IoT). In 2008, the Green Hills INTEGRITY®-178 RTOS was the first and only operating system to be certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL 6+, High Robustness, the highest level of security ever achieved for any software product. Green Hills Software's 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.
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