Green Hills Software & MEN partner

Under the agreement, the Green Hills European Technical Centre in The Netherlands will provide a range of services, from assisting customers through the industrial safety (IEC 61508) and transportation (EN 50128) certification process to offering a complete, turn-key safety board support package service. Green Hills Software has a unique safety and security history that includes the completion of many certified projects to IEC 61508 SIL 3 (industrial), EN 50128 SWSIL 4 (railway), EAL 6+ High Robustness (security), DO-178B Level A (avionics), ISO 26262 ASIL D (automotive) and FDA Class III (medical) over a period of more than a decade.

By adopting Green Hills Software’s safety-certified INTEGRITY RTOS, developers are able to run applications containing software of multiple levels of safety-criticality (and non-critical software) concurrently on a single processor. The INTEGRITY secure separation kernel architecture enables consolidation of functions on a single processor that, until now, may have been implemented with a more costly hardware design using physical separation. System consolidation offers a lower production cost and a better energy footprint.

MEN Mikro Elektronik’s computer solutions are used in harsh mission- and safety-critical environments found in the transportation (rail, road, air, sea) and industrial (automation, power and energy, medical) markets. MEN provides its customers advice and support as well as system design, configuration and environmental qualification in accordance with industry standards. The company’s core competencies encompass ARM, Power, and x86 processor architectures, development rules for safe applications, analogue I/O design and FPGA technology.

Peter Hoogenboom, Head of the European Functional Safety Team, Green Hills Software, commented: “MEN Mikro has an excellent pedigree providing ruggedised hardware solutions and supporting companies in the industrial and transportation sectors. Its portfolio of pre-certified hardware is suited to Green Hills Software’s functional safety and certification expertise built on the INTEGRITY OS.”

Klaus Popp, Head of Product Management, MEN Mikro Elektronik, added: “Green Hills Software has a proven track record in producing high reliability software for the most demanding safety-critical applications. They also excel in assisting companies to achieve the associated safety certifications swiftly and with minimal drain on resources of their own development teams. Together, MEN and the Green Hills European Technical Centre will be able to offer a solution for companies in this space.”