NetLogic Microsystems' XLP Family of Multicore, Multi-Threaded Processors Receives Support from Green Hills

Operating system, middleware and multicore development tool support for NetLogic (News - Alert) Microsystems' industry-leading XLP family of multicore, multi-threaded processors has been announced by Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions.

Green Hills Software's comprehensive portfolio of optimized software solutions consists of multicore-ready INTEGRITY real-time operating system and MULTI software development tool set for NetLogic Microsystems' (News - Alert) XLP multicore, multi-threaded processors.

The customers are able to accelerate time-to-market with a robust software environment that can take full advantage of the superior performance and functionality of the XLP processors, with the help of the tight coupling of Green Hills Software's embedded software solutions with NetLogic Microsystems' XLP instruction set extensions and software development kit.

The latest in RTOS technology is delivered by Green Hills Software. It also achieves unprecedented levels of reliability, availability, and security for a broad range of real-time applications. Both Asymmetric Multi Processing and Symmetric Multi Processing configurations for enhanced flexibility and scalability are supported by the INTEGRITY RTOS on NetLogic Microsystems' XLP processors.

"By combining up to 128 NXCPUs operating at 2GHz, the XLP processor is the industry's first quad-issue, quad-threaded, tri-level cached, multicore communications processor, and was recently rated 'an exceptional CPU well beyond the capabilities of other embedded processors' by the Microprocessor Report," Chris O'Reilly, vice president of marketing at NetLogic Microsystems, stated. "We are pleased to collaborate with such a market-leading provider of RTOS and software solutions for embedded multicore processing. Our collaboration with Green Hills Software allows us to help customers achieve market-leading performance, scalability and software reliability."

"NetLogic Microsystems is driving best-in-class innovations in multicore processing technology, and we are excited to partner with the company on its XLP processor family," David Kleidermacher, CTO of Green Hills Software, said. "Our proven and broadly adopted embedded multicore software products will be highly optimized for the XLP multicore, multi-threaded processors through this collaboration with NetLogic Microsystems."

In related news, Green Hills Software, Inc has announced that its powerful user-based static code analyzer, DoubleCheck, is now provided as a standard feature with its MULTI Professional tool suite, the embedded industry's benchmark in multicore development and debugger solutions.