Green Hills Software Announces Version 3.0 of MULTI 2000 Integrated Development Environment

<%=company1%>, the leading supplier of embedded software development tools, today announced the release of Version 3.0 of MULTI 2000, the industry's most powerful integrated development environment (IDE) for embedded systems. MULTI 2000 (V3.0) provides a number of significant new enhancements over Version 2.0, introduced at last year's Embedded Systems West in San Jose. Among these are a powerful cross reference browsing capability for source code browsing, Customizable register view, multitask debugging for Green Hills' ThreadX and Enea's OSE real-time operating systems, and trace support for ARM's Embedded Trace Macrocell.

The MULTI 2000 IDE, together with Green Hills' family of operating C, C++, EC++, FORTRAN and Ada95 compilers, automates all aspects of embedded software development. Featuring an integrated programming editor, source-level debugger, graphical program builder, and run-time error checker, MULTI 2000 also includes a version control system, instruction set simulator, performance profiler, and real-time EventAnalyzer.

MULTI 2000 V3.0 provides significant enhancements to several key MULTI components, including the source-level debugger and graphical browser. The debugger's cross reference browsing capability enables programmers to view variable and function use throughout the source code, which makes it easy to determine where a variable is used, where it is given a value, and where it is referenced. The customizable register view enables programmers to visualize control registers on "Integrated Components" such as the PowerPC 821/860 an the new PowerQUICC II, 8260. Support for independent thread/process-specific local variables and call-stack information simplifies the debugging of applications based on Green Hills' ThreadX or ENEa's OSE RTOS by enabling users to set thread/process-specific breakpoint.

Trace support for ARM UK, Ltd's new Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) is also new in MULTI 2000 V3.0. Operating in conjunction with Agilent's Logic Analyzer and Processor Probe for run control, MULTI 2000 gives users control of trigger parameters and display of trace information captured by the Agilent Logic Analyzer. The ETM is found in ARM7TDMI and ARM9E processors.

MULTI 2000 is available for most major 32-bit and 64-bit RISC and CISC CPUs, as well as a number of popular DSPs. MULTI also suports a variety of host/target connectivity options, incuding BDM and JTAG OCD (On-Chip Debugging) solutions, EST's visionICE, HP's Processor Probe, ARM's EmbeddedICE, and various ROM Monitors. Version 3.0 is available for PowerPC and ARM processors, with other processor support planned for Q2-Q3, 2000.

MULTI 2000 for Windows costs $5,900 (US). MULTI 2000 for Unix costs $8,900 (US). Both versions are available immediately.