Green Hills Software Releases MULTI Version 6 and Green Hills Compiler Version 2012

Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced major new releases of its MULTI® integrated development environment (IDE) and Green Hills Compiler toolchain. With these new releases, Green Hills Software continues to push the boundaries of embedded software performance and developer productivity by delivering tools that produce the smallest and fastest code while enabling developers to find and fix bugs faster than ever before. In addition, MULTI IDE version 6 and Green Hills Compiler version 2012 are now delivered as stand-alone products that can be independently upgraded, providing developers with more flexibility to adopt new CPU support and IDE functionality as it becomes available.

Beyond the separate release of the toolchain from the IDE, major new features included with Green Hills Compiler 2012 are:
  • Record-breaking improvements in code speed and size on ARM and Power Architecture. Green Hills Compiler 2012 outperforms both competitors and prior Green Hills Compiler releases by up to 34% on CoreMark speed benchmarks. As an example, Green Hills Compiler 2012 achieved a CoreMark benchmark of 288.11 on a Freescale Kinetis K60 at 100MHz for a record-breaking 2.88 CoreMark/MHz. The nearest published competitor is at 2.17 CoreMark/MHz on this processor. This is a performance improvement of over 32%. See http://www.eembc.org/benchmark/reports/benchreport.php?benchmark_seq=1292&suite=CORE.
  • New 64-bit target support for Freescale QorIQ P5020 Power Architecture processors in addition to existing support for 64-bit Intel Architecture processors.
  • Support for ARM NEON intrinsics. NEON is a coprocessor supported on ARM v7-A architectures, such as the Cortex-A family, that enables significant performance improvements for applications like video processing. A Green Hills Compiler 2012 user saw an increase in frame rate on a video processing application from 27 frames per second (FPS) to 108 FPS by enabling their application with NEON intrinsics–a 400% improvement in performance.
  • A wide range of new processor support including Cortex-A15, Cortex-A9, Cortex-A5, Cortex-M4, Cortex-M1, Cortex-M0, Marvell PJ4, QorIQ P3041, QorIQ P5020, and cnMIPS II.

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