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Chatsworth, CA, United States, 06/09/2009 – Aitech Defense Systems Inc., the world’s first and largest independent manufacturer of open architecture electronic boards and subsystem level products for harsh, environmentally-demanding defense and aerospace applications, now offers full board support packages (BSPs) for Green Hills INTEGRITY version 5.0 real-time operating system (RTOS) to facilitate system integration and reduce development time for designers. The BSPs are available for a number of Aitech’s boards and systems.
Containing prebuilt kernel images, the BSPs employ the latest in RTOS technology to enable interaction with advanced graphics and communication interfaces. Also included is installation documentation that details how to set up the development environments for both target and host as well as information on building and downloading a custom kernel image and running customer-specific application code.
Most recently, the BSPs supporting INTEGRITY version 5.0 were added to Aitech’s high performance, rugged 6U single-slot VME C108 single board computer (SBC) with an 8 GB USB SSD (solid state drive), used in both new and legacy military embedded applications. For newer applications, the C108 offers up to 1.4 GHz of processing power via the PowerPC (PPC) MPC7448 processor, the highest performing Freescale PowerPC. For legacy applications, the SBC features pin-to-pin backplane and I/O compatibility with previous Aitech processor boards employing the PPC MPC74xx processor family, allowing easy, cost-effective upgrades to newer technology.
The low power, single-width M705, a compact, multi-I/O PCI mezzanine card (PMC) that provides a variety of configuration options for the highest levels of flexibility in different I/O environments, also benefits from the new BSPs. The M705 features an unprecedented level of PMC density with up to five dual-channel, dual-redundant MIL-STD-1553B channels, 16 ARINC-429 receive channels and eight ARINC-429 transmit channels, up to six RS-232/422/485 serial channels and eight opto-isolated digital discrete input channels, all of which reduce the number of I/O cards required when developing subsystems.
The latest version of INTEGRITY, a secure RTOS, uses hardware memory protection to isolate and protect both itself and user tasks from incorrect operation caused by accidental errors or malicious tampering. Its object-oriented design allows precise access control and verification of the security and integrity of data, communications, individual components and the system as a whole. With strict adherence to provable resource requirements, INTERGRITY allows an embedded system designer to guarantee resource availability while ensuring real-time performance for security and protection, unlike other memory protected operating systems.
For more information please call 888-Aitech-8 (888-248-3248), or e-mail sales[.]rugged.com.
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About AITECH
Established in 1983, Aitech offers military and space-qualified, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded computing products for rugged defense, aerospace and astronautics (space) applications as well as provides radiation tolerant and full MIL-SPEC solutions. The company provides industry-standard, open architecture VMEbus, CompactPCI and high speed serial fabric-based boards, power subsystems, mass memory, enclosures and hardware subsystem integration along with logistics, configuration control, component obsolescence and earned-value management services.
Having pioneered the development of true military VMEbus products for use in mainstream defense and aerospace applications, Aitech utilizes its broad base of off-the-shelf products and technologies to also develop customer-specific solutions, deliver superior cost-performance and reliability, and expedite time to market. Applications for its products range from mission processors, fire control, mission control and autonomous robotic subsystems for ground vehicles as well as surface and subsurface naval platforms to tactical and strategic fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, and low- to high-earth orbit and deep space vehicles.
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® and velOSity™ real-time operating systems, µ-velOSity™ microkernel, compilers, IPv6-ready TCP/IP networking stacks, GateD® Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing, MULTI® and AdaMULTI™ integrated development environments, DoubleCheck™ integrated static analyzer and TimeMachine™ 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.
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