Automotive Services Practice

Automobiles are becoming a hub for devices that not only manage the vehicle, but also enable extra-vehicular communication and offer a wide array of driver and passenger information and entertainment options. These devices pose specific challenges for automotive device manufacturers, who must manage power consumption, support manual and voice controls, and integrate all devices within the vehicle. Technologies once foreign to a vehicle, such as Java or Bluetooth, are now ubiquitous in new models.

As part of our comprehensive automotive solution, the Wind River Automotive Services Practice consists of a team of engineers with extensive industry experience delivering design, integration, and optimization services tailored to the needs of automotive clients. Combined with Wind River Education Services and support network, the Automotive Services Practice improves time-to-revenue by delivering reliable, high-quality solutions quickly and cost-effectively.

Benefits:

• High-quality, on time, on budget. Our services team has proven expertise in completing device software projects for the automotive industry. We know how to manage complex development and integration tasks, ensuring excellent quality and timely delivery.
• Focus on adding value. By co-sourcing your integration and development work with Wind River Automotive Services, you can concentrate on projects that will deliver higher value and sustainable competitive advantage for your company.
• Insider ecosystem knowledge. Our consultants excel at configuring Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices to perform optimally with our hardware and software partner's products. We leverage this in-depth knowledge to deliver the best solution for your business, cutting development costs and speeding time-to-revenue.

Specialized Expertise
Wind River's global team of more than 140 device engineers understands the networking and integration requirements that automotive manufacturers must meet, and we've built our platforms to address those needs. If you or your customers have unique requirements, Wind River can also create a customized solution. Our extensive industry experience includes power management and media management, as well as other market-specific services designed to keep your development project on track.

IP Portfolio
While becoming industry experts, we've assembled a portfolio of intellectual property (IP) that supports our services practice. Using this portfolio of customizations, accelerators, and enhancements can reduce the cost of your solution and decrease your time to completion. Wind River Professional Services will seamlessly integrate our IP into your solution and tailor it according to your needs.

Methodology
Wind River works within a precisely structured methodology that ensures your project will be completed within the estimated time and at or below the estimated cost, with the top-notch quality you expect. Project execution involves a set of management and development processes based on industry standards, as documented in the Project Management Institute's Guide to Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). The PMBOK was compiled from the best practices of project managers across many markets and disciplines, and Wind River has applied these best practices to our industry-leading project management approach.

Automotive Services
Refined through years of successful project completion, our professional services deliver value, quality, and results. The following offerings from the Wind River Automotive Services Practice have been carefully defined for the needs of automotive device developers:

Requirements Discovery and Definition
Which features are essential? Which hardware platforms are the most suitable? What are the best-of-breed software technologies? We explore challenges, identify options, create development and integration schedules, and determine test and acceptance criteria.

Device Design
Our expert consultants can help develop system requirements, design high-level hardware and software architecture, and assess your current technology. It is also possible to co-source your system design either partially or entirely to Wind River Design Services to help guarantee success.

Hardware Design and Prototyping
We can design hardware and FPGAs and lay out the printed circuit board to meet initial certification and manufacturing requirements. Working with silicon vendor partners from our comprehensive ecosystem, we can ensure that you are optimizing chip performance. Controlling costs and schedule, we can integrate hardware and software to create a fully functional prototype of your product.

Real-Time Best Practices
Our seasoned consultants can leverage their automotive device expertise to extend your engineering team’s capabilities, creating a long-term relationship that extends beyond a single project. Wind River’s services staff can even manage the development and maintenance of all lower system software layers, so your team can focus on the application software that adds the highest value.

Software System and Middleware Integration
Using our automotive device software best practices, we can extend Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices to include customized functionality, tools, and third-party middleware technology.

Power Management
The Wind River Automotive Services Practice can help establish a power management profile that minimizes power drain on a vehicle, then help you implement it for maximum performance and lowest cost.

BSP and Driver Optimization
Our BSP and driver experts can analyze your automotive device hardware, then create the software package you need to optimize both your development process and the behavior of your deployed device.

Hardware Abstraction
We can help you port existing applications across multiple CPUs more easily, as well as evaluate existing application code, language, and constructs to determine a suitable architecture port. We can also evaluate hardware dependencies, drivers, and communication stacks.

Legacy Application and Infrastructure Migration
To ensure the success of your current applications, we can assist in porting to and validating legacy software systems with your new Wind River platform.

Linux Development Foundation
We can collaborate with you to establish a Linux strategy that includes an integrated and tested kernel, file system, Linux BSP, and development environment.

Performance and Size Optimization
We can evaluate low-level and application code, as well as their interaction with hardware, to help you optimize code size and performance.

Media Management
Retrieving content is a key requirement for many automotive infotainment devices. We can help determine usage, failure, and security scenarios and assist you with choosing the right third-party or custom implementations to ensure successful content retrieval.

GUI Implementation
We can help design and implement your device menu structure and graphical user interface, in addition to integrating these with your application.

Integrate Wireless Networking Support
We can identify environmental factors that impact data movement, data integrity, and the ability of a given technology to meet project or application requirements. This could include integration of 802.11 (a, b, g) Wi-Fi, ultra-wideband, 802.16 (WiMAX), Bluetooth, or other stacks. We can help evaluate wireless silicon solutions based on existing target architecture, protocol support required, and complexity of drivers. Wind River has hands-on experience with wireless drivers from Atheros, Intel, and Broadcom.

Network Security
As more automotive devices begin to communicate outside the vehicle, we can help you meet network security requirements by integrating, extending, and optimizing our products to meet your clients’ needs.

Contact Us
Wind River Professional Services enables our customers to get the most out of Wind River products and solutions, so many clients prefer to collaborate with us throughout the entire development life cycle. The Wind River Automotive Services Practice employs world-class staff, processes, and technology to deliver value, quality, and results. For more information or to have a sales representative contact you, please contact us at 1-800-545-WIND (9463) or inquiries@windriver.com.