Spectrum Signal Processing and Green Hills Software Partner to Offer INTEGRITY Real-Time Operating System on SDR-4000
Thursday February 23, 7:00 am ET
BURNABY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2006--Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. (TSX:SSY - News; NASDAQ:SSPI - News) -
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Run-time royalty free operating system enhances production readiness of rugged, small form factor SDR-4000 platform
Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. and Green Hills® Software, Inc. today announced that they have entered into an agreement whereby Spectrum will resell Green Hills INTEGRITY® Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) and MULTI® Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with Spectrum's flexComm(TM) SDR-4000 3U rugged software defined radio (SDR) platform.
INTEGRITY provides a royalty-free RTOS supporting the POSIX system interfaces that are critical components in many SDR implementations and are required by the Software Communications Architecture (SCA). The SCA is an open architecture framework that tells designers how elements of hardware and software are to operate in harmony for programs such as the US Department of Defense Joint Tactical Radio Systems.
"Green Hills is excited about this partnership that builds on Spectrum's success providing SDR solutions to governments and leading primes around the world," said Dan Mender, Green Hills Software's Director of Business Development. "By integrating Green Hills Software's highly-reliable, secure, software environment and development tools onto Spectrum's SDR-4000 platform, customers now have a robust solution that can take them from development to deployment."
"Bundling Green Hills' INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI IDE with Spectrum's SDR-4000 platform extends our integrated solutions portfolio targeting the military defense market," said Mark Briggs, VP of Marketing for Spectrum Signal Processing. "A rugged platform like the SDR-4000 in combination with the INTEGRITY operating system offers solutions that will meet the challenging technical and business requirements of this space, especially for large scale deployments. INTEGRITY and MULTI are the latest addition to Spectrum's software product portfolio designed specifically for SDR applications and meant to take full advantage of Spectrum's high performance hardware systems."
Spectrum's SDR-4000 includes the PRO-4600 SDR modem processing engine and the XMC-3321 dual-transceiver input/output mezzanine card. The system combines the processing power of the Xilinx® Virtex-4(TM), the Freescale® PowerQUICC(TM) III PowerPC(TM) and Texas Instruments' TMS320C64x(TM) digital signal processor elements into a single slot solution. INTEGRITY RTOS will be pre-integrated onto the platform to provide high performance features such as virtual memory management, rapid real-time response, and networking and communications protocols. INTEGRITY is SCA-compliant and POSIX certified. The MULTI IDE provides advanced tools for application development and includes a C and C++ compiler, debugger, text editor and flash utilities. The offering includes an SCA Core Framework, an Object Request Broker, a board support package and Spectrum's quicComm(TM) hardware abstraction layer that facilitates platform programming and code portability. Also provided are comprehensive software examples that demonstrate application data flows that simplify and accelerate development initiatives. Technical support services and training courses are part of this extensive product offering.
Details on the SDR-4000 with INTEGRITY and MULTI can be found at www.spectrumsignal.com/products.
ABOUT GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE, INC.
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is a technology leader in real-time operating systems and device software optimization for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Green Hills Software's royalty-free INTEGRITY RTOS, velOSity(TM) microkernel, compilers, MULTI and AdaMULTI(TM) Integrated Development Environments and TimeMachine(TM) debugger offer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply embedded and high-reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software on the web at www.ghs.com.
ABOUT SPECTRUM SIGNAL PROCESSING INC.
Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. (TSX:SSY - News; NASDAQ:SSPI - News) is a leading supplier of software defined platforms for defense electronics applications. Spectrum's products and services are optimized for military communications, signals intelligence, surveillance, electronic warfare and satellite communications applications. Spectrum's integrated, application-ready products provide its customers with compelling time-to-market and performance advantages while mitigating program risk and cost parameters. Spectrum Signal Processing (USA) Inc., based in Columbia, MD, provides applications engineering services and modified commercial-off-the-shelf platforms to the US Government, its allies and its prime contractors. For more information on Spectrum and its flexComm product line, please visit www.spectrumsignal.com. |
