Combined Commercial and Open Source
Approach to Ignite Innovation in
MID Market Segment

An emerging market segment in the mobile industry is bridging the divide between personal computing and embedded devices—the mobile Internet device (MID). With many potential vertical specifications, unlike the homogenous desktop computer, MIDs will have a wide variety of functional requirements, driving the need for a flexible, full-featured operating platform. These requirements originate from adjacent device categories—mobile handsets, netbooks, laptop computers, and personal navigation devices. From Bluetooth to power management, streaming video to wireless Internet access, each vendor will require unique solutions to serve the MID platform's diverse needs.

Wind River offers an open, extensible mobile platform for the MID device segment based on Moblin, a Linux platform highly tuned for mobile devices. The platform is optimized for Intel Atom chip technologies and, along with customization services, commercial support, and test and validation services, is used by Wind River to deliver innovative MID solutions to device manufacturers and mobile operators. Wind River collaborates with Moblin and the independent software vendor (ISV) community to integrate and support valued software components to extend the MID platform. In addition, Wind River contributes code to Moblin and participates in the ongoing growth of that open source project.

Along with a commercial MID platform, Wind River offers Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST), a system for combining multiple test frameworks into a single meta-framework that can be run with “a single button press.” It helps automate, execute, and manage thousands of tests and their results. FAST includes open source tests, Wind River–provided tests, and a customer’s existing tests to make automated testing as comprehensive as possible. Because many open source test frameworks contain thousands of tests and many packages often come with their own test suites, FAST makes executing tests much simpler because they are all wrapped in FAST scripts and run from the FAST graphical user interface (GUI) and an available command-line interface (CLI).

 

For more information on Wind River solutions for mobile Internet devices, contact Wind River at 510-748-4100 (toll-free: 800-545-WIND).