SANTA BARBARA, CA — April 21, 2009 — Green Hills Software, Inc., the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, will exhibit, present and demonstrate its newest software advances next week at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, California, booth #1510.

Green Hills Software will present:

1.      Topic: How to Choose a Multicore Processor for Embedded Networking Devices
When: Monday (April 26, 2010)   1:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. (half-day tutorial)
Where: San Jose Convention Center, room J4, track: Microprocessors/Microcontrollers/DSPs
Who: David Kleidermacher (Chief Technology Officer, Green Hills Software)

Synopsis: Selecting the optimal microprocessor for a design is a skill that straddles art and science and befuddles many. Designers and managers are faced with an almost limitless number of technical and financial comparison points between devices. The difficulty is exacerbated by emerging technologies such as multicore, virtualization, and a myriad of on-chip co-processors, accelerators, and peripherals. This tutorial will provide in-depth, unbiased comparisons between the latest multicore processors across all the major architectures (ARM, Intel, MIPS, and Power) from a variety of leading chip vendors, with a focus on embedded networking applications. The tutorial will also include case studies, demonstrating how seasoned veterans have made similar decisions on actual projects.

2.      Topic: Insightful Debugging or Disastrous Delusions (ME770) – a Panel Discussion
When: Wednesday (April 28, 2010)         4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Where: at the ESC co-located Multi-Core Expo
Who:
Moderator: Dave Kleidermacher, CTO, Green Hills Software
Panel of Experts:
Tom Dickens, Assoc. Technical Fellow, Boeing
Dominique Toupin, Developer Tool Manager, Ericsson
Bharat Mota, Director of Engineering, Software Products Division, Freescale
Rajan Goyal, Distinguished Engineer, Multicore Virtualization, Cavium Networks

Synopsis: This panel explores the challenges of multicore debugging from the perspective of veteran embedded multicore software developers. Attendees will learn which tools really make a difference, which ones are not worth their time and money, and where the vendor market must focus its improvements. Discussed will be the role of trace, virtual prototypes, JTAG, compiler enhancements, homogeneous vs. heterogeneous systems, programming language choice, and more.

Green Hills Software presentations and demonstrations in booth #1510:

Center Stage:

The Green Hills center stage presentation focuses on techniques for developers to get the most out of the MULTI source code debugger and associated tools. The demonstration covers advanced break point techniques and scenarios for using event analysis, profiling, and advanced trace-based tools. Attendees will also learn how utilizing these techniques and applying “the right tool for the job” can maximize developer efficiency and productivity.

Virtualization and Wi-Fi Kiosk:

Green Hills Software will showcase INTEGRITY® Secure Virtualization running on the Texas Instruments OMAP3530 processor. A Linux guest operating system and various applications will be securely hosted on the INTEGRITY RTOS alongside other real-time critical native INTEGRITY applications. Safe and secure separation between the Linux kernel and applications will be demonstrated through an attack on the Linux kernel that is isolated and contained within the virtual machine, while the native INTEGRITY application continues reliable operation. This demonstration will also include a new Wi-Fi integration via the Silex Technology SX-SDCAG 802.11a/b/g radio/baseband SDIO card and with an Atheros AR6002 ROCm Chip.

Multicore Kiosk:

The Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI integrated development environment (IDE) will be showcased on the multicore Freescale QorIQ™ P2020 processor. Multicore visibility and run control will be demonstrated through various tools in the IDE including the debugger, event analyzer, and profiling tools. The INTEGRITY RTOS will be demonstrated executing in both symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing modes (AMP and SMP).

Advanced Debugging Kiosk:

Green Hills Software will demonstrate complete embedded development solutions for Intel’s newest dual-core Atom processors, the Intel® Atom™ Processor D510. The Green Hills offering for Atom includes the Green Hills Probe for low level processor run control; the MULTI integrated development environment for advanced debugging, profiling, and analysis; and the INTEGRITY real-time operating system for building the most secure and reliable embedded multicore applications.

About Green Hills Software

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the largest independent vendor of embedded development solutions. 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 for any software product. Our open architecture integrated development solutions address deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial, automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.

WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 22, 2010—Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the Mentor Embedded™ Nucleus® SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) technology and support for the Multicore Communications Application Programming Interface (MCAPI) standard for inter-processor communication (IPC), established by the Multicore Association. These Mentor Graphics technologies provide a comprehensive solution for developers of multicore and multi-OS designs for both symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing (SMP and AMP) deployments.

The Nucleus SMP technology is an evolution of the Mentor Graphics® Nucleus Plus real-time operating system (RTOS) and was developed in close collaboration with ARM. The addition of the Mentor Graphics SMP technology creates a scalable solution enabling seamless migration of application code across the whole range of ARM® processors from Cortex™-M series processors through to the high end Cortex-A series processors. Mentor was able to develop this highly-optimized version of Nucleus SMP using the ARM RealView Compilation Tools and validate the Nucleus SMP solution on the multicore ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore™ processor using the ARM Versatile Express Cortex-A9 quad core development board and the ARM Fast Models Cortex-A9 simulator.

“Mentor’s Nucleus SMP capability using the ARM Cortex-A9 platform will allow our mutual customers to develop high-performance, power-efficient multicore designs with confidence and greater productivity,” said John Goodacre, director of program management, Processors Division, ARM. “Our successful hardware and software collaboration with Mentor further demonstrates the importance of tight relationships for innovating technology.”

Nucleus SMP leverages the full range of Nucleus OS middleware including the Mentor Embedded Inflexion™ User Interface (UI), networking stacks for wired and wireless communication, security, USB, and file systems.

Nucleus RTOS and Linux for MCAPI Support with Asymmetric Multiprocessing

The Mentor Graphics MCAPI solution supports both Nucleus and Linux operating systems enabling a standard interface for communication and synchronization between multiple OSs running in asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) designs. Thus, AMP designs can leverage the standard Android- and Linux-rich feature set while the Nucleus RTOS can manage the hard real-time or safety-critical requirements.

“Mentor is addressing the challenges of mixing different operating systems, like Linux and the Nucleus RTOS, for different methods of IPC with its support of the MCAPI standard,” said Markus Levy, president of The Multicore Association. “Mentor’s MCAPI technology will accelerate the adoption of multiple OSs on multicore which is necessary to help meet system timing requirements for higher-quality product development.”

“Our acquisition of Embedded Alley last year has allowed us to integrate Linux and Android open source for technology development, like our Nucleus SMP and MCAPI support,” said Glenn Perry, general manager, Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division. “Our multicore and multi-OS capabilities further demonstrate our continued strategy of providing the most innovative embedded development products and services to help our customers and partners become more successful.”

Technologies to be demonstrated at ESC 2010

The Mentor Embedded Nucleus SMP and MCAPI technologies will be demonstrated at the Mentor Graphics booth #1902 during the Embedded Systems Silicon Valley Conference, April 26-29.

The Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division comprises the Mentor Embedded family of products and services, including embedded software intellectual property (IP), tools, and consulting services to help embedded developers and silicon partners optimize their products for design and cost efficiency.  More information on Mentor Embedded products and services can be found at the website: www.mentor.com/embedded.

About Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world’s most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $800 million and employs approximately 4,425 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.