Green Hills ports safety software to TI AM26x microcontroller
Green Hills Software has added safety software support for the AM26x Sitara family of microcontrollers from Texas Instruments (TI).
The AM263x, AM263Px, and AM261x MCUs can run the ISO 26262 ASIL D-certified µ-velOSity real-time operating system (RTOS) with a safety-certified high-performance software foundation as well as the MULTI integrated development environment (IDE) for multi-core debugging.
The integrated platform is aimed at software-defined vehicle electronics that require safety-certification, real-time processing, advanced motor-control topologies and analytics at the edge.
The AM26x MCU portfolio has multiple pin-to-pin compatible devices with up to four 400MHz ARM Cortex-R5F cores that can be programmed to run in lockstep or dual-core mode supporting ASIL D functional safety.
Other safety and security hardware features include cryptographic acceleration and secure boot through a Hardware Security Module (HSM), Error-Correcting Code (ECC), Built-In Self-Test (BIST) and other processor integrity checking. GHS has integrated the TI Driver Porting Layer (DPL) to provide access to complete device driver support for the AM263x/AM263Px/AM261x MCUs.
“The AM26x high-performance microcontrollers offer the real-time control features needed to serve motor control and digital power applications,” said Na Kong, Automotive Application Specific MCU Product Line Manager at TI. “Complementing these MCUs with the Green Hills safety-certified solutions offers our customers an easy-to-use, streamlined development path to get to market quickly for their safety-critical designs.”
“Green Hills, in collaboration with Texas Instruments, is enabling its customers with highly integrated, optimized software and hardware solutions for developing advanced, next-generation safety systems,” said Dan Mender, Vice President, Business Development at Green Hills Software. “The availability of this combination ensures rapid development, efficient debugging, and unmatched optimization, while enabling cost-effective, timely delivery of safety-certified solutions across many industrial and automotive applications.”
As well as the RTOS and IDE, the software includes TI SysConfig Integration for visualization and automation for AM26x MCU driver configuration as well as History Viewer – intuitive visualization of system events over time, correlated to source code and safety-certified C/C++ optimizing compilers and run-time libraries.
A MISRA C Adherence Wizard provides enforcement of MISRA C rules while DoubleCheck provides user-based static source code analysis at the time of link and compile, automatically runs during compilation to detect and resolve problems more efficiently and earlier in the development cycle.
The µ-velOSity RTOS and Green Hills Compilers and run-time libraries are certified to ISO 26262 ASIL D (Automotive), IEC 61508 SIL 3 (Industrial) and EN 50128/50657 SIL 4 (Railway)
The safety-certified µ-velOSity RTOS and MULTI IDE from Green Hills Software for the AM26x MCU portfolio are available today for use on the TI AM26x Launchpad hardware platforms. https://www.ghs.com/products/sitara-am263x.html.
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