Looking Ahead to Safe and Secure Software Development

March 22, 2022

Green Hills Software's Robert Redfield presents software trends in automotive, OTA, and RISC-V.

This video is part of the 2022 Electronic Design Forecast issue. You can also check out more TechXchange Talks videos.

Green Hills Software develops real-time operating systems like the Integrity RTOS and software-development tools like its Multi IDE for C and C++ developers. I spoke with Robert Redfield, Direct of Business Development, about a number of topics including:

Consolidating software in automotive applications
Over-the-air (OTA) updates
RISC-V

Green Hills Software is involved in a range of automotive initiatives, from securing the connected car to the powertrain (Fig. 1).

1. Green Hills Software provides real-time operating systems and software-development tools designed to create automotive applications that meet ISO 26262 ASIL-D requirements.

The Multi IDE supports a range of processors including Arm and RISC-V. Multi also supports Green Hills Software's TimeMachine trace debug tool (Fig. 2). It allows developers to record the execution of an application and then step forward and backward through the recorded execution.

2. The TimeMachine tool suite includes PathAnalyzer, which delivers a view of your application's call stack over time.

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