Features
Key features and functionality include the following:
- Linux run-time: General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, is an optimized Linux develop-and-run solution for use in a wide range of devices. For applications requiring a robust, high-performance, highly connected operating system, General Purpose Platform offers the right combination of integrated, validated open source software with the flexibility developers need to maintain a competitive edge. Based on version 2.6.21 of the Linux kernel, General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition contains support for a variety of hardware devices, file systems, networking protocols, security features, and management capabilities.
- VxWorks run-time: General Purpose Platform, VxWorks Edition is ideally suited for devices requiring a highly scalable, hard real-time, deterministic run-time environment. The platform includes a comprehensive networking stack that features Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies, enhanced memory protection, error management, and POSIX compliance. The latest edition is also backward-compatible with earlier versions of VxWorks, allowing customers to leverage existing and legacy software assets. Symmetric multiprocessing support (SMP) is now available for all VxWorks 6.6-based platforms through the VxWorks 6.6 SMP optional add-on product.
- Wind River Workbench: An integrated development suite based on the Eclipse framework, Workbench provides deep capabilities that support the entire development life cycle, from hardware bring-up to platform and application development, and enables standardization on one common development suite across the enterprise. Workbench is extensible and scalable, allowing developers to meet specific project needs, and it can seamlessly integrate hundreds of third-party plug-ins
- Extensive partner technologies: To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has established the DSO industry's widest-ranging partner ecosystem, joining forces with leading hardware and software providers to address such technologies as advanced file systems, level 2 and 3 networking protocols, advanced graphics, reference designs, and board support packages (BSPs).
Wind River Professional Services
As part of its comprehensive platform solutions, Wind River offers outsourced engineering services specifically designed to help our customers meet strict market deadlines while keeping development costs down. Our team of technical experts has in-depth knowledge of Wind River products, as well as experience assisting customers with product realization in all vertical industries. Services include device design, BSP and driver optimization, software system and middleware integration, legacy application and infrastructure migration, and real-time best practices.
Architecture and Host Support
- Target processor architectures
- Processor vendors*
- Arm Limited (ARM)
- AMCC (PowerPC)
- Broadcom (MIPS)
- Cavium Networks (MIPS)
- Freescale Semiconductor (PowerPC, ARM, ColdFire)
- IBM (PowerPC)
- Intel (IA, XScale)
- NEC Electronics (MIPS)
- Marvell (ARM, XScale)
- Mips Technologies (MIPS)
- PA-Semi (PowerPC)
- PMC-Sierra (MIPS)
- Raza Microelectronics (MIPS)
- Renesas Technology (SuperH)
- Texas Instruments (ARM, MIPS)
- Toshiba Semiconductor (MIPS)
- Xilinx (PowerPC)
- Host operating systems
*In addition, a large group of semiconductor and board vendors directly provide VxWorks support through their own Board Support Packages.
Partner Ecosystem
Wind River's world-class partner ecosystem assures tight integration between our core technologies and those of the premier hardware and software companies we've chosen to build out our solutions. Our partners help to extend the capabilities of Wind River's development and run-time platforms by offering out-of-the-box integration and support for key technologies in a number of fast-moving markets. Our customer support team is trained to troubleshoot partner technologies in use with Wind River products, making ours the most comprehensive and best supported partner ecosystem in the DSO industry.
Our hardware platform partners include the following:
AMCC
ARM
Artesyn
Broadcom
Curtiss-Wright
Freescale
IBM
Intel
Kontron |
Mercury Computer
MIPS
Motorola ECCG
RadiSys
Radstone
Renesas
Thales
Toshiba |
Our software platform partners include the following:
| Technology |
Partner |
| Integrated Ada language development |
AdaCore |
| 3-D graphics and OpenGL |
ALT Software |
| OpenGL |
Seaweed Systems |
| Routing, broadband access, MPLS |
Data Connection |
| QoS |
Data Connection, TeamF1 |
| NAND flash file system |
Datalight |
| Power-failure-safe file system |
Datalight |
| Voice, signaling, wireless |
Flextronics (HSS) |
| Layer 2/3 switching and routing |
IP Infusion, NextHop |
| OS co-residency |
KUKA Controls |
| Secure Socket Layer |
TeamF1 |
| Graphics and GUI builder |
Tilcon |
| Windows network file system CIFS/SMB |
Visuality Systems |
| Service availability |
GoAhead |
| Ada, C, C++ application debugging |
Rational |
| Data management and synchronization |
Solid Information Technology |
Affiliations
At Wind River, we applaud the move toward open industry standards. Because we believe the world is changing too fast to lock our customers into proprietary technologies, we've built our DSO solution on open standards, expertly integrated and intelligently applied.
Wind River does not just embrace open standards, we're taking the lead in establishing them. Driving the Device Software Development Platform project at the Eclipse Foundation; providing TIPC support for messaging on the backplane between different operating systems and leading the way on Carrier Grade Linux with OSDL; participating in AutoSAR—these are just a few examples of our commitment to evolving standards.
Consumer Electronics Linux Forum
Founded in July 2003, CE Linux Forum (CELF) focuses on the establishment and promotion of Linux-based digital consumer electronic products. CELF's main activities will include defining requirements for a variety of extensions in Linux-based CE products, as well as collaborating and reaching consensus with open-source projects and the Linux community, thereby promoting the proliferation of CE Linux-based digital electronics.
Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under an open-source paradigm with a common public license that provides royalty-free source code and worldwide redistribution rights, the Eclipse platform enables tool developers to have ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology.
IPv6 Forum
The IPv6 Forum is a nonprofit worldwide consortium of Internet vendors, research networks, and education networks committed to increasing market and user awareness of IPv6. The organization works to promote new IPv6-based applications and interoperable implementations of IPv6 standards, as well as resolve issues that create barriers to IPv6 deployment.
Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium
The NCOIC is an international consortium whose mission is to help achieve increased levels of interoperability in a network-centric environment that includes all levels of the United States government and its allies involved in joint, interagency, and multinational operations.
Open Group
The Open Group is a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium that works to enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises, based on open standards and global interoperability.
RapidIO Trade Association
The RapidIO Trade Association is a nonprofit corporation that directs development and drives adoption of the RapidIO architecture. The association has established an ecosystem that supports systems developers who use the RapidIO architecture, minimizing the amount of bridging required in a system design.
