Green Hills Software supports Imagination’s RISC-V CPUs
At AutoTech Detroit this week, Imagination Technologies will be demonstrating Green Hills’ µ-velOSity running on its RISC-V CPUs’ RISC-V Catapult CPUs. The two companies have announced a partnership in which Green Hills’ µ-velOSity RTOS will support Imagination Technologies’ CPUs to accelerate real-time safety and security in automotive and industrial designs.
This partnership will extend support to Imagination’s Catapult CPU family roadmap in the future, confirmed the two companies.
The µ-velOSity RTOS is the smallest of Green Hills Software’s family of real time operating systems. It has been updated and optimised to support the RISC-V architecture and has been certified to meet industry standards for functional safety and security. It offers seamless integration with the safety-certified Green Hills MULTI integrated development environment (IDE) and C/C++ compilers, in order to make it easy for developers to learn and use to create high performance, small footprint designs for automotive, industrial, and IoT applications.
“We have a long-standing relationship with Imagination and are thrilled to extend our support to the company’s RISC-V CPUs,” said Dan Mender, vice president of business development at Green Hills Software. “The adoption of the RISC-V instruction set architecture is increasing rapidly in countless markets, particularly in IoT, industrial, and embedded applications. By using Imagination’s Catapult family and our µ-velOSity RTOS, advanced debugger and optimising C/C++ compilers, customers can efficiently create and confidently deploy safety- and security-critical RISC-V applications,” he added.
Catapult is Imagination’s RISC-V product line designed from the ground up for deployment and is configurable for use in a variety of markets, said the company.
Imagination’s RISC-V real-time CPUs can be integrated into complex SoCs for applications as wide ranging as networking, packet management, storage controllers and sensor management for AI cameras and smart metering. The company also provides GPU and AI accelerator IP and confirmed it will be expanding its RISC-V CPU product line with more applications-focused solutions in the future. All Imagination GPUs are compatible with RISC-V SoCs.
Imagination will be demonstrating Green Hills’ µ-velOSity running on Imagination’s RISC-V CPUs at AutoTech Detroit (7 to 8 June) at Booth 827.
