Freescale’s AUTOSAR Software Developed with Green Hills Software’s MULTI IDE

“Green Hills’ strong market penetration in the automotive sector and its industry-leading compiler performance and small code size, make the MULTI IDE a natural choice for Freescale’s AUTOSAR software development projects,” noted Ray Cornyn, director of Automotive Microcontroller Products at Freescale. “Green Hills’ full solutions provide customers and our team with software development productivity through the MULTI integrated development environment.”



Freescale’s AUTOSAR software for MPC556x, MPC551x and other microcontroller (MCU) families is engineered to conform to the AUTOSAR R2.1 and 3.0/3.1 standards allowing software optimization for specific MCU families and derivatives. Automotive applications for body, chassis, and advanced safety provide for the consolidation of more ECU functionality and communication of other body systems, including Gateway, central tasks in body controllers, and centralization in safety and chassis control applications.



The AUTOSAR-compliant software addresses the need of automotive manufacturers and tier 1 suppliers for standardization that will allow for the re-use of the software in future developments, thereby achieving substantial cost savings.



The Freescale AUTOSAR OS development requires an optimizing compiler to produce fast running code with absolute quality. Freescale uses Green Hills optimizing compilers in a variety of global development activities. In addition, Freescale uses the MULTI IDE – a single integrated software and hardware development toolset to help the Freescale AUTOSAR software project meet development milestones and productivity metrics.



“We are pleased that Freescale has chosen our IDE for the development of its AUTOSAR-compliant software for automotive controllers,” commented David Kleidermacher, chief technology officer of Green Hills Software. “We are happy to again demonstrate our leadership in helping embedded systems designers create totally reliable, maximum performance products in the least amount of time and at the lowest cost.”



With AUTOSAR development sites in Europe, Asia and the U.S., Freescale’s distributed developers are using the MULTI IDE for a global activity