Partner Profile: Green Hills Software

Since 1982, the safety and security-certified software products, technologies and expert services from Green Hills Software have enabled electronics manufacturers to efficiently develop and confidently deploy purpose-built embedded software that performs critical functions in vehicles, aircraft, medical devices, industrial applications, storage devices, phones and other applications.
VLAB Works has partnered with Green Hills to deliver a combined platform to develop, test and validate applications with Green Hills products on simulated devices.

VLAB Works™ and Green Hills

The combination of Green Hills products and VLAB Works enables developers to create, run, debug, test and optimize their C/C++ code on software-simulated processor platforms from VLAB Works.

The MULTI® development environment has been in use by thousands of developers for three decades and is the industry’s unrivaled integrated development environment to create, debug, and optimize C/C++ code for production-focused systems.

Featuring a multicore debugger, profiler, simulator, run-time error checking, project builder, MISRA C Adherence Checker, DoubleCheck static code coverage, and many other integrated tools.

Green Hills Optimizing Compilers generate the fastest and smallest production-quality code. The toolchain and run-time libraries are qualified to the highest functional safety levels for ISO 26262 (Automotive), IEC 61508 (Industrial) and EN 50128 (Railway).
Trusted Advisor Services help customers achieve their own tailored levels of safety, security, and performance, with the highest developer productivity. Services include design help, product training, safety certification guidance and custom development.
Learn more at https://www.ghs.com or contact sales@ghs.com

VLAB Virtual Platforms:

Renesas RH850 MCUs with G3 core – P1M, P1xC, C1x, F1H, F1L, F1k, E1x
Renesas RH850 MCUs with G4 core – E2x, E2XFCC2, U2A

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The 80 / 20 rule and virtualization

by Glen Olafsen | March 31, 2022 | Virtual Platforms, VLAB | 0 Comments

How much target hardware does your embedded application software actually use? VLAB VDMs are bringing new thinking to an age old problem.

The VLAB Sitara AM64x V-EVM Available Now

by Glen Olafsen | March 1, 2022 | Texas Instruments, VLAB | 0 Comments

The announcement of a new product would normally come with a title of 'Now Available'. Arguably 'Available Now' is more important, with ongoing global shortages of semiconductors impacting supplies of development and test hardware! The ASTC Virtual EVM for TI Sitara...

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by Ross Dickson | September 27, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

This may seem like a cross between a circular question and a particularly awkward attempt at a Zen kaon. Actually it is intended as a serious question about product design. In many industries that we don’t work in but periodically have to interact with it seems the...

Do you need ‘Cycle Accurate’?

by Glen Olafsen | July 21, 2021 | VLAB | 0 Comments

For those scratching your head, possibly because you are new to simulation, here is a quick explanation. In digital simulation there are multiple ways of simulating embedded hardware, each with its pros and cons. Perhaps the simplest explanation, Cycle Accurate...

Finding perspective on the semiconductor shortage

by Ross Dickson | June 7, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

When you read the recent headlines on global chip shortages, does R.E.M. or David Bowie spring to mind? On one hand it could be The End of the World as we Know it. Or maybe it's just another round of Changes. No this is not a test to see when you started listening to...

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by Ross Dickson | May 13, 2021 | VLAB | 0 Comments

Explaining new concepts using the things that we find around us is nothing new. In a previous blog, the connection between changes in sport called for challenging assumptions and trying new types of testing. Today we are going to use another ... Comic Books! Having...

Scripted vs Interactive

by Glen Olafsen | March 31, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

An epic struggle ... or complementary?While the title may suggest an epic struggle, a competition, an either / or proposition, in the field of embedded software debug and test, Scripted and Interactive should be seen as complementary. Like the well worn adage, there...

Challenge your assumptions

by Glen Olafsen | March 24, 2021 | Opinion | 0 Comments

Have you ever noticed that sometimes the source of inspiration or clarity can come from the most unlikely source? Recently I was listening to a talk back sports radio show where one of the hosts was asked the question, “What has been the biggest change to Football in...

A Flock of Geese or a Flock of Gulls

by Glen Olafsen | March 17, 2021 | VLAB | 0 Comments

Have you ever pondered which waterfowl personifies best practices in modern automotive software development? A quick disclaimer before diving into this critical and pressing issue. I haven't intentionally committed code to a repo destined for the shipping product in...

VLAB Works in 2021

by Ross Dickson | February 2, 2021 | News, VLAB | 0 Comments

You have probably been wondering: What can ASTC possibly blog about that will overshadow announcement by GM of their Goal to Eliminate Gas and Diesel? Well wonder no longer, I am pleased to announce VLAB will be faster! Ok, perhaps as announcements go that is closer...

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