Virtualisation software, focus of Renesas and Green Hills collaboration

Renesas says the partnership will allow it to develop added functions necessary for efficient operation of virtualisation software. This, it says, will enable high speed, real time control and improve the usability of software development environments. The functions will be incorporated into microcontrollers with a V850 cpu core. Green Hills Software will port the MULTI integrated development environment (IDE), which includes components such as a compiler and a debugger - already supporting the V850 core. The new cpu virtualisation technology is designed to provide support for software that enables multiple applications to run independently and simultaneously on a single cpu. One example is the INTEGRITY real time operating system. The Green Hills IDE will generate compact and high speed instruction code optimised for the cpu virtualisation technology provided by the Renesas Electronics V850 core. When combined with virtualisation software, Renesas says the software development environment will deliver the means to develop and implement with high efficiency applications with functional safety. There are also plans to include support for the emerging ISO 26262 functional safety standard. The software development environment will be available through Green Hills Software as part of the MULTI product family.