Green Hills Software Delivers Enhancements to Industry-Leading Platform for Medical Devices

SANTA BARBARA, CA, Jul 07 (MARKET WIRE) --
Green Hills Software, Inc., the world leader in certified safe and secure
real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced major enhancements to
its Platform for Medical Devices by adding support for Secure Guest OS
Virtualization and expanding the existing networking, file system and
target hardware options. The Platform for Medical Devices significantly
reduces the cost and risk of Class II and Class III medical product
approval while providing faster time-to-market for customers requiring
either the premarket notification process, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration's (FDA) 510(k), or the more stringent Premarket Approval
(PMA) process. It also reduces the hardware costs, design complexity,
physical footprint and power and heat dissipation of next-generation
medical device designs.

"Green Hills Software's comprehensive Platform for Medical Devices has
helped us build our products reliably and efficiently," said Doug Baker,
lead engineer, Carestream Health. "The debugger allows me to connect to a
running target and debug it without having to restart and reproduce a
problem. This feature is a big time saver and has proven to be of great
value during our development process."

"As the software content and complexity of medical devices continue to
increase, the need for a comprehensive approach to safety assurance is
required," commented Mario Morales, vice president semiconductor research,
at IDC. "Software that helps developers meet these challenging demands for
safety-critical software development tools and a proven process for
developing reliable, certifiable software efficiently will offer a clear
differentiation in the medical device market."

The certified safe, secure INTEGRITY(R) operating system forms the core
of the Green Hills Platform for Medical Devices, comprised of integrated
development, debug and test tools, operating systems, Secure Guest OS
Virtualization, services, and middleware aimed at safety-critical medical
devices, such as defibrillators, ventilators, IV infusion pumps,
automated heparin analyzers, and infant radiant warmers. This Platform is
available for a wide range of target microprocessors -- providing
customers broad design flexibility.

"Since its initial release in 2005, Green Hills Software has enjoyed
overwhelming adoption and success with its Platform for Medical Device
development," commented Dan Mender, vice president business development,
Green Hills Software. "With these enhancements, Green Hills continues to
deliver the industry's most mature and flexible solution for customers
building life-critical medical devices -- all while enabling the shortest
time-to-market, highest reliability and lowest development cost."

The Green Hills Platform for Medical Devices now offers expanded
support
for:

-- Secure Guest OS Virtualization Architecture
-- New target processors (TI OMAP3, ARM Cortex A8)
-- More reference board support packages
-- Wireless supplicant support (WPA/WPA2)
-- Partitionable journaling file system (PJFS)
-- Enhanced Wear Leveling Flash file system support
-- Expanded TCP/IP v4/v6 networking stack, security protocols, and
networking applications
-- Enhanced USB host stack, device stack and communications class drivers
-- Updated life cycle documentation for INTEGRITY

Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY is the first RTOS that provides
guaranteed separation of high risk tasks from low risk tasks running
concurrently on a single microprocessor. With this approach, each
partition can be analyzed to its appropriate risk level, eliminating the
need for separate physical systems or analysis of code beyond the
required risk level. In addition, INTEGRITY and its kernel life cycle
documentation and release process are tailored specifically for the Class
II and Class III medical device market.

About the Green Hills Platform for Medical Devices

Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY RTOS, the core of the Platform, is a
deterministic real-time operating system that carries credentials for
reliability, availability, and serviceability, including use in many
FDA/CDRH Class II and III-approved life-critical medical devices. The
Platform provides a complete software development debug and test solution
that helps device makers increase productivity and drastically reduce
development cost, per-unit cost, program risk, and product time-to-market.
INTEGRITY is fully integrated with a complete range of feature-rich
middleware components.

Availability

The Green Hills Platform for Medical Devices has been available since 2005
on a wide variety of microprocessor architectures. The new enhancements
are available today.

About Green Hills Software

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader in
device software optimization (DSO) and real-time operating systems (RTOS)
for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. In 2008, the Green Hills
INTEGRITY-178B RTOS was the first and only operating system to be
certified by the NSA to EAL6+ High Robustness, the highest level of
security ever achieved. Our INTEGRITY(R) and velOSity(TM) real-time
operating systems, u-velOSity(TM) microkernel, compilers, IPv6-ready
TCP/IP networking stacks, GateD(R) Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing,
MULTI(R) and AdaMULTI(TM) integrated development environments,
DoubleCheck(TM) integrated static analyzer and TimeMachine(TM) tool suite
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 at www.ghs.com.

Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, MULTI, INTEGRITY, velOSity, u-velOSity,
AdaMULTI, DoubleCheck and TimeMachine are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Green Hills Software, Inc. in the U.S. and/or
internationally. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.

Contact:
Green Hills Software, Inc.
Barbel French
805-965-6044
bfrench@ghs.com

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