  green hills software is a privately owned company that builds operating systems and development tools for embedded systems. --via fceia.unr.edu.ar the company was founded in 1982 by dan o'dowd and carl rosenberg. its headquarters are in santa barbara, california. ==history== green hills software and wind river systems enacted a 99-year contract as cooperative peers in the embedded software engineering market throughout the 1990s, with their relationship ending in a series of lawsuits throughout the early 2000s. this resulted in their opposite parting of ways, whereupon wind river devoted itself to publicly embrace linux and open-source software but green hills initiated a public relations campaign to decry its use in issues of national security. in 2008, the green hills integrity-178 rtos was the first system to be certified by national information assurance partnership (niap), composed of nsa and nist, to eal 6+. by november, 2008, it was announced that a commercialized version of integrity 178-b will be available to be sold to the private sector by integrity global security, a subsidiary of green hills software. on march 27, 2012, a contract was announced between green hills software and nintendo. this designates multi as the official integrated development environment and toolchain for nintendo and its licensed developers to program the wii u video game console. on february 25, 2014, it was announced that
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