Green Hills Software Announces INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI IDE Support for Altera's Cyclone V SoC

From:  Wall Street Journal

COMMENT - Green Hills Loves John Fund and the Wall Street Journal. 

As mentioned earlier on this site, and elsewhere, John Fund, formerly on the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal, placed there through the recommendation of Robert Novak in 1983, was a political operative whose relationship with Karl Rove proved to highly advantageous for both.  Fund was a valued asset, through the Clinton years and in the campaign to steal elections.  

But then a problem arose.  GHS assisted in solving the problem.

In 2003 Craig Franklin gifted, through certainly Fund understood he and his friends Karl Rove and Dick Cheney were expected to show their gratitude, an uncertified deposition, still hosted on Fund's site, intended to provide evidence Morgan Pillsbury had a borderline personality disorder.  She had been told this by Craig Franklin, Senior Vice President of Green Hills Software, and her adopted father sometime before Craig tried to get her into bed, which Fund did do in October, 1998.  Craig - Incest Porn

Fund had dated Morgan's mother in the early 80s.  John told the kids to call him, "Uncle John, calling his old friend for updates on the family."  Perhaps John was also into incest? 

Morgan was busy, in 1998, assisting his adopted father with his divorce from her mother, Melinda Pillsbury-Foster.  Craig tried to crawl into bed with her in December of that year.  Even so, they kept chatting.  “Morgan Pillsbury – Franklin Transcript” (late 1999)

The tough part here, is finding people, among these characters, who were normal.  

The Movie is being written, and Dan and Craig get starring parts.  
PsychoBusters - The Movie  

You might ask what this has to do with the NEWS RELEASE, technology and the War in Iraq, and you will find out, stay tuned.   

NEWS RELEASE - More free advertising for GHS! 

Green Hills Software Announces INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI IDE Support for Altera's Cyclone V SoC

Integrated ARM-Based Hard Processor System (HPS) Combined With FPGA Advances Reductions in System Power, Cost and Board Space

SANTA BARBARA, CA and SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 23, 2013) - DESIGN West, Booth 1320 -- Green Hills Software, the largest independent vendor of embedded software solutions, today announced the upcoming availability of its industry-leading INTEGRITY(R) RTOS and comprehensive software development and run-time solutions for the Altera(R) Cyclone(R) V SoC. Green Hills Software supported solutions include the INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS) with SMP configuration; its award-winning MULTI(R) integrated development environment (IDE); a full suite of middleware including network stacks, file systems and conformant POSIX; and the Green Hills JTAG Probe.

"Our Cyclone V SoC products provide customers a superior architecture, both from a silicon and an embedded software perspective, and the addition of Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI tools support only furthers our architectural advantage," said Chris Balough, senior director of SoC product marketing at Altera. "Support for INTEGRITY RTOS and MULTI tools enables our customers to quickly develop small footprint, low-cost and high-performance scalable systems with absolute reliability and safety targets in mind."

Altera Cyclone V SoCs include several distinctive features that enable developers in the wireless communications, industrial, video surveillance, automotive and medical equipment markets to create custom SoC variants optimized for system power, board space, performance and cost requirements. The integrated ARM-based hard processor system found in the Cyclone V SoC consists of a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor, peripherals, and memory interfaces, and is connected with the FPGA fabric using a high-bandwidth interconnect backbone. MORE

Reliable Safety-Critical Software At Design West 2013

From:  AltEmbedded 

COMMENT -  Any system is only as secure as its weakest part.  Green Hills Software, Inc., is, itself, a critically flawed system because of the demonstrated, and documented behavior of Dan O'Dowd and the corporate structure which leaves all decisions related to how his technology is used in his own hands.  

There is no divide between 'personal,' and 'business,' which has been demonstrated over and over again in other contexts, with other highly successful financially motivated enterprises.  

I, personally, would be curious to see where the ideas and initial technologies for this vast array of products originated.  Several of them I read about, associated with entirely different individuals, who for various reasons, failed as they neared success.  It bears a curious similarity to the well-known strategy followed by Dan (Drone Boy) O'Dowd's hero, Bill Gates.  

Bill also was well known for using litigation as a business tool.

by William Wong in alt.embedded

Design West 2013 is not quite out the chute yet. Tech sessions have been in full swing but the tradeshow floor will not open until tomorrow. In the meantime I talked with a number of vendors before to check out the latest software that will be on display. This includes a mobile version of Green Hill Software’s Integrity RTOS, LDRA’s latest support for standards like DO-178 and McObject’s news embedded RDBMS.

This collection highlights the variety of offerings at the show but only skims the surface on what is available. I had an earlier look at CMX’s compact RTOS (see Small RTOS Drives Cortex-M3/M4). There is more to come when I get a chance to write about it later this week.

Themes like virtualization and clustering are common. Safety and security are themes that look to be moving out from environments like avionics where they are required to industrial and enterprise and even consumer applications areas as demonstrated by Green Hills Software’s mobile version of its Integrity RTOS.

Secure RTOS Targets Mobile Devices

Green Hills Software is well known for its Integrity RTOS. It is used in application areas from DO-178 avionic systems to secure enterprise applications to safety-critical medical applications. The latest incarnation looks to bring improvements in safety and reliability features to mobile devices.

The Integrity Multivisor for Trusted Mobile Devices is now in its fourth incarnation. It a Type 1 hypervisor built on a certified, secure separation kernel. It can now handle ARM VE virtualization extensions. Its virtualization support now includes the latest Android Jelly Bean versions. One of the tricks Green Hills can deliver is 3D hardware acceleration shared between isolated Android instantiations.

The latest version also supports multicore SMP and secure boot. Security has always been part of Green Hill’s offerings. This also includes VPN hypervisor support, Green Hills Software’s FIPS 140-2 and NSA Suite B cryptographic library support, and support for the latest Virtual Self-Encrypting Drives (vSED). The vSED support allows for hypervisor-protected user authentication and data-at-rest protection.

Of course, the system would not be complete without a collection of virtualized and securely shared I/O drivers. Green Hills supports Bluetooth and USB devices including sensors and GPS devices. It has Wi-Fi and cellular voice and dta support. There is audio and hardware-accelerated graphics with touch screen and buttons support.

Streamlining Compliance Management

Certification of avionics projects is a requirement. It is not an easy one to meet and the enumerable artifacts and procedures are necessary. LDRA’s Compliance Management System (LCMS) is designed to provide part of the infrastructure necessary for companies to deliver projects that are compliant with standards like:

• Aircraft & Systems Development (ARP-4754A)
• Safety Assessment (ARP-4761)
• Integrated Modular Avionics (DO-297)
• Flight Electronic Hardware (DO-254)
• Flight Software (DO-178B/C)
• Ground Systems (DO-278/A)

LCMS services can be provided by a local server or via the cloud. The LCMS Cloud provides an economical option for companies that can host their data off site.

The LCMS provides life cycle tools like descriptive process checklists (Fig. 1), fully compliant plans, and problem reports. These are configured to assist customers in managing certification planning, development, verification, and regulatory activities. MORE

The Media After Gosnell (John Fund praises Kirsten Powers who used to work for the rats!)

From:  National Review Online  | April 15, 2013 | John Fund

Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:32:15 AM by neverdem

COMMENT - John Fund is the fellow who once worked at the Wall Street Journal and evaded charges of domestic violence with the cooperative efforts of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, the first two numbers on his speed dial, in 2003. 

In 2001 an article,  titled, "Sex, Lies, and the Tape," authored by John Connolly of Vanity Fair and the Tape,   made its appearance online, accompanied by what is now known as the Weaselsearch Tape.  Transcript  

The tape was made by the woman John Fund had talked into aborting his child, then battered and tried to kill. Morgan Pillsbury, left destitute, recorded the tape to persuade her mother, Pillsbury-Foster, in 1999,  she was not lying.  

Morgan has issues with the truth, there is no doubt. But then again, so does John.  In late 2002 Morgan was living in hiding in Georgia because of attempts on her life.  

John Fund is pro-life, you know.  He says so.  But, the reality behind his article, hiding behind the horror of the Gosnell Clinic, is using abortion for political positioning, his real job being as a political operative working with and for Karl Rove.     

Back to 2003.  Where did I read that date before?  Right, an earlier entry on this blog regarding an article appearing in the Wall Street Journal., the COMMENT to which, in part read, "Craig Franklin and Dan O'Dowd rendered service to the Wall Street Journal's long time Editorial Page Editor, John Fund in 2003 by providing to him a document which could not legally be supplied, this being an uncertified deposition from a prior action for which Dan O'Dowd had asked to hold a Power of Attorney for purposes of ensuring the settlement agreement was carried out. Fund immediately put the document up on line, where it remains today.    A third party saw the enveloped document, was told what it contained, and that it was addressed to Fund.  This was reported to Pillsbury-Foster only in 2008, five years after  government contracts began to flow for Dan."

Motive, motive, motive.  Piles of money fast tracked into Dan O'Dowd's pockets moved Green Hills to generously share the uncertified deposition in their file.
 

Why would Karl and Dick be so motivated?  An article outlining their motives, which became far more urgent in November of 2002, will be out soon.  Sign up to receive updates.  

Article below: 

Now it’s time for journalists to report on the “meat-market style” abortions at a Delaware clinic.

If there were an award for Most Constructive Shaming of the News Media, the clear winner would be Kirsten Powers, the brave Fox News pundit and Daily Beast columnist. Last Thursday, she called out the mainstream media for failing to adequately report on the ongoing trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who is charged with murdering seven newborn infants and a patient seeking an abortion. Powers’s USA Today piece provoked an instant response from many sheepish journalists.
Megan McArdle of the Daily Beast acknowledged she

“should have” written about the “horror Doc’s” clinic. The Washington Post made the stunning admission that “we should have sent a reporter sooner.” Dylan Beers, Politico’s media reporter, flatly stated that “Gosnell should be front-page, top-of-the-hour news by prime time tonight.” Jeffrey Goldberg, a Bloomberg View columnist, concluded, “It’s remarkable that it took this long.”
Indeed, the silence had been stunning since the Gosnell trial began back on March 18. No mention of the story at all on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, or MSNBC, and no front-page stories in any major paper. National Review, The Weekly Standard, Breitbart.com, and Michelle Malkin, on the

other hand, provided early and consistent coverage. J. D. Mullane, the columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times who has been a tiger on the story, reported last week what he found in the courtroom: In the entire 40-seat section reserved for the media, he was the only one present. A couple of local journos were scattered elsewhere around the courtroom.
The lack of interest is striking in an era when “if it bleeds it leads” thinking pervades the media. As Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times noted last week:

The Gosnell case would seem to contain all the ingredients of must-see television: a formerly respected community leader accused of unspeakable acts; the death of a young immigrant woman; a parade of former employees offering graphic testimony on the gruesome deaths of more than 100 just-born infants; and even the implication by the doctor’s lawyers that the charges have been motivated by racism. Dr. Gosnell is black and his clinic was in a mostly minority neighborhood.

It’s natural to think that some of the lack of interest stems from the gruesomeness of the details. Gosnell’s “practice” was so grisly that some people might wish to turn away and ignore the nightmare. But unpalatable images and facts don’t stop the media from reporting on the horrors of famine-stricken North Korea, even though there are almost no pictures available. It seems undeniable, then,

that abortion politics played a role in the blackout. When Mullane asked a member of the court’s staff why there was so little media interest, the man pointed to the filthy medical equipment set up in the courtroom as an exhibit and asked, “If you’re pro-choice, do you really want anybody to know about this?”
It’s not as if there isn’t good reason for pro-choice journalistic sleuths to pursue the story for simple muckraking purposes. It’s a stunning tale of bureaucratic neglect and incompetence. Despite its law against partial-birth abortions, Pennsylvania stopped regular inspections of abortion clinics in 1993. But regulators still received frequent — and credible — complaints about unsanitary or horrific practices taking place behind Gosnell’s clinic door. And they did nothing.
A 2011 grand-jury report singled out racism and politics for the “see no evil” attitudes. “We think the reason no one acted is because the women in question were poor and of color, because the victims were infants without identities, and because the subject was the political football of abortion,” the grand-jury report stated. Philadelphia district attorney Seth Williams, a liberal Democrat and one of the prosecutors in the case, maintains that abortion clinics are held to lower standards than other businesses are. In 2011, he asked, “How is it that we have more oversight in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of women’s hair salons than we do over abortion clinics?”
Kudos to those in the media who are now quick to play catch-up on Gosnell. We might owe some of this course correction to the fact that the chief critic of media malpractice on Gosnell, Kirsten Powers, is not a conservative. Powers is a former Democratic political consultant who worked in the Clinton White House, and she supports most liberal causes, but she hasn’t spent her entire career in the media or the professional Left. She grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, understands the values of the Heartland, and is a practicing Christian. From her perspective, many people at both ends of the political spectrum wear ideological blinders. “This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the Left,” she told the Religious News Service last week. “It should be a top concern for Americans, especially if you are a liberal and you believe dissent is a critical part to democracy.”
It’s sad that it took a liberal such as Powers to shame so many journos into waking up and doing their jobs. The blunt truth is that if a conservative had written her piece, the response would have been far more muted — or journalists would have attacked the messenger. Jeff Toobin of CNN offered a preposterous explanation for the media’s handling of the Gosnell case: “Well, the people making those [media] criticisms are by and large conservative. They are saying the liberal media is trying to protect abortion rights by not showing this horror show. I don’t buy that at all. . . . It’s a business decision. We are not operating with the political agenda here. We pick stories, by and large, for reasons that we think people would be interested. I don’t think we’re covering this up.”
Moving forward, there are two good ways to test Toobin’s hypothesis.
First, two former nurses at Planned Parenthood of Delaware told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia this month that conditions at the clinic there are dangerous. Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich, one of the former nurses, said: “It was just unsafe. I couldn’t tell you how ridiculously unsafe it was.” “They could be at risk of getting hepatitis, even AIDS,” added the other nurse, Joyce Vasikonis. Channel 6 reported that both nurses were stunned “by what they called a meat-market style of assembly-line abortions.” It noted that in Delaware, abortion clinics are not subject to routine inspections: “Planned Parenthood is essentially in charge of inspecting itself.” Will any national reporters follow up on Channel 6’s reporting? 
Second, a leading Democratic candidate for governor of Pennsylvania is Allyson Schwartz, a five-term Democratic congresswoman who represents part of Philadelphia, where Gosnell had his clinic. Democrats are openly fretting that Schwartz, a passionate liberal, has political baggage. Not only has she voted against any and all restrictions on abortion, but from 1975 to 1988 she ran a women’s health clinic in Philadelphia where abortions were performed. Schwartz is “a dream candidate for Republicans,” one Democratic strategist told Philly.com this month before the Gosnell story erupted nationally.
J. D. Mullane is one journalist who is on the case. He has peppered Schwartz with questions on Twitter for days now. One sample: “Thoughts on Gosnell? Did you know him? Did you ever refer women to his clinic while you directed yours?” We’ll see how many journalists follow his lead with questions about her stance on partial-birth abortion, her record at her clinic, and her thoughts on the poor regulatory history of abortion clinics in Pennsylvania. So far, there has been only silence from the Schwartz camp.
— John Fund is national-affairs columnist for NRO.