Green Hills Software Adds AUTOSAR Support to INTEGRITY RTOS

The availability of the new AUTOSAR API for Green Hills Software’s safety- and security-certified INTEGRITY RTOS – combined with the existing rich set of standard APIs for OSEK and POSIX – provides automobile manufacturers a clear path to address the growing dilemma of ECU (Electronic Control Unit) complexity facing vehicles today. The modern automobile has upwards of 80 microprocessor-based ECUs and the number continues to grow due to legacy design practices. This growth is negatively impacting vehicle cost, complexity, quality and time-to-market. INTEGRITY RTOS’s proven separation capabilities and this expanded API targeting automotive electronics enable an effective, proven ECU consolidation strategy to address this growing problem. Developers can now leverage Green Hills Software’s broad market experience in safety-critical systems and consolidation to safely decrease vehicle ECU count and complexity without sacrificing functionality and quality.

“Green Hills Software has been helping companies solve the difficult challenges of ECU consolidation with guaranteed ‘freedom from interference’ in the world’s most critical embedded systems for over a decade,” stated Dan Mender, vice president of business development, Green Hills Software. “This additional support expands the ability for automotive OEMs and Tier 1s to tackle the challenge of safely and reliably consolidating legacy functions with new system capabilities.”

The Green Hills AUTOSAR support is an extension to a recent announcement of the Green Hills MULTI tool chain as the industry’s first tool chain qualified to the stringent ISO 26262 standard for use at the highest Automotive Safety Integrity Level, ASIL D. This compatible AUTOSAR API has been integrated and tested with industry-leading providers of AUTOSAR development tools and target processor MCAL layers (Microcontroller Abstraction Layer), and provides seamless incorporation of AUTOSAR applications on INTEGRITY-based platforms.