Speaking of faster time to market, Green Hills and Esterel Technologies are partnering to create what they call the first complete model-driven solution for safety-critical device software development.
For those who don't know Esterel, it's a provider of design tools including the Scade Suite, a safety-critical app-dev environment, and Esterel Studio, which handles chip design, validation and verification. Esterel's customers are mostly in the defense/aero and auto industries, and they include Airbus, Dassault, GM, and Johnson Controls.
Under the agreement, Esterel's Scade Suite will produce code that will be automatically integrated with Green Hills' Integrity RTOS. And Green Hill's compilers will be pre-certified by Scade, so that any code produced by Scade and then compiled by Green Hills tools will go to certification quickly and relatively easily.
How does this speed time to market? By eliminating the need for developers to use separate environments for application software modeling on the one hand, and implementation to target on the other, say the two companies. Apparently, the integrated solution generates target code in C, directly from the Scade model, that is compliant with both DO-178B (the de facto standard for aviation software) and IEC 61508 (an international standard for safety-related systems).
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