Complete Product Suite for Cavium Networks' OCTEONT Multi-core MIPS64 Processor Family

“Green Hills Software is a welcome addition to the Cavium Networks ecosystem,” said Rajiv Khemani, vice president of marketing and sales at Cavium Networks. “Their software solutions for multicore processor development are being used by our common customers in the wireless infrastructure market. This portfolio of tools and operating systems optimized for the OCTEON processors allows rapid deployment of leading performance networking products,” he said.

Green Hills’ products for the OCTEON processor family come from 25 years of experience providing development tools and RTOSes that make it easy for software developers to utilize the silicon’s optimizations, while reducing their time-to-market and improving the quality and security of code running in the end product.

This portfolio includes:
• MULTI integrated development environment – the industry’s leading integrated development environment for multi-core development and debugging with many standard features for finding software bugs early in the development process

• TimeMachine tool suite – the revolutionary back-in-time tool suite that gives embedded software developers unprecedented visibility to see and fix software flaws

• DoubleCheck static analysis tool – seamlessly integrated with MULTI to allow easy, rapid analysis of your code, finding bugs before they have a chance to infest your target

• Green Hills C/C++compilers for the OCTEON MIPS64™ core – numerous optimizations designed to exploit the core’s characteristics to generate the fastest and smallest code in the industry

• µ-velOSity real-time operating system – providing industry-leading performance, minimal memory (less than 1.6 KB) and power-saving footprint for resource-constrained and cost-sensitive devices

• Green Hills Probe – providing reliable and efficient multi-core debugging using the OCTEON EJTAG port

“We are seeing the rapid adoption of multi-core, multifunction microprocessors in next-generation wired and wireless infrastructure equipment,” commented Dan O’Dowd, founder and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software. “Cavium Networks’ OCTEON product family is leading the way by capturing a significant number of future designs and deployments by a wide variety of OEM networking and storage equipment providers. Now, with the Green Hills solution available, these OEM’s can realize their performance goals while delivering on their time-to-market targets,” he said.