Innovations to Speed Development, Increase Performance,
and Improve Your Bottom Line
Wind River Linux 4 is the latest version of our commercial embedded Linux run-time and development platform. Each Update Pack adds new functionality, usability improvements, hardware support, and integrations with add-on products to the core platform. We expect that existing Wind River Linux 4 customers will migrate to this latest platform to take advantage of the following new features.
CORE PLATFORM ENHANCEMENTS
IPv6
Our IPv6 stack has achieved official "IPv6 Ready" certification MoreLess
- Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), cost of work, and fragmentation:
- Achieves compliance (TAHI test suite), and every daily build is now tested
- Meets customer requests for IPv6 certified stack
- Provides a coexistence solution-important because migration from IPv4 is expected to take about 10 years
- Comes with setup tips and tricks
Virtual Routing and Forwarding
Wind River Linux now offers a simple, elegant open source solution, easy to implement and inexpensive, for building next-generation routers MoreLess
- Reduce operational expense through consolidation:
- Allows multiple instances of a routing table to coexist on the same device
- Creates separate VPNs easily as demand increases (this is an evolution of VLAN-tagging)
- Leverages network containers with dedicated CPU affinities and Linux user space to roll more than 100 devices into one
- Accelerates packet processing at the network edge
- Conforms with Cisco's definition of virtual routing and forwarding (VRF)
CORE TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES
- KVM uprev: Simulate an asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) solution without using a hypervisor.
- QEMU uprev: Easily emulate your target system, enabled on Intel and ARM Cortex-A9 architectures.
- Valgrind extended support: Use the memory analysis toolset on these additional hardware platforms:
- ppc_e500mc nd 603e (fsl_p4080, qemu_ppc, and more)
- arm_v7at2_vfp_neon, arm_v7at2
ADD-ON PRODUCT INTEGRATIONS
Wind River Simics 4.6
With this integration, teams can start developing projects on Wind River Linux even before hardware is available MoreLess
- Lower hardware costs and time-to-market and increase efficiency:
- Is integrated into Wind River Linux workflows
- Enables teams to develop, debug, and test complex embedded systems on the host machine
- Accurately creates an exact simulation of the target
- Enables teams to freeze and save the state of the simulation
- Includes Wind River Simics virtual targets in Wind River Workbench remote systems view
Wind River Linux Performance Studio for Intel Architecture
Three powerful Intel development tools help teams create optimized code to get the most from Intel architecture platforms MoreLess
- Boost performance and shorten time-to-market:
- Integrates Intel C/C++ Compiler, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives, and Intel Vtune Amplifier XE with Wind River Linux 4.2 and higher
- Optimizes compiler performance on dual and multi-core architectures
- Provides thousands of algorithms to optimize performance of bandwidth-hungry applications: video and audio streaming, signal and data processing, and more
- Integrates Vtune with Wind River Workbench, making it easy to analyze application performance
Intel Data Plane Development Kit
High-performance packet processing on multi-core CPUs is now enabled MoreLess
- Increase throughput of high bandwidth applications:
- APIs for efficient memory management and packet handling as well as optimized poll mode drivers and assistance in overcoming I/O bottlenecks
- Full support on x86 architectures
- Open source Intel Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) implementation on other hardware platforms now available through Wind River Professional Services
Intel Processor Optimizations
For selected Intel processors, Wind River has included optimizations for hardware management MoreLess
- Get the most from your advanced Intel architecture platform.
- Uncover, manage, and correct errors to boost performance.
- Leverage the ACPI platform error interface to optimize power management.
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