Wind River Platform for Industrial Devices
Customer Success
Wind River Platform for Industrial Devices provides industrial, medical, and robotics developers with a device software optimization (DSO) solution that combines VxWorks, the industry's leading real-time operating system; Wind River Workbench, the premier open device software development suite; and essential networking and connectivity run-time technologies. Platform for Industrial Devices addresses the challenges developers face by offering more choice, greater flexibility, and a comprehensive partner ecosystem to facilitate tighter product integration. The platform is backed by Wind River's 20+ years of device software industry experience, a world-class support organization, and a specialized professional services team
Key features and functionality include:
- Real-Time Operating System Support: Platform for Industrial Devices relies on the proven, deterministic, hard real-time characteristics of the industry-leading VxWorks operating system. VxWorks supports user-mode processes and offers advanced memory protection, configurable error management, TIPC messaging, and increased POSIX compliance, as well as local GUI implementation through Wind River Media Library.
- Advanced Industrial Connectivity: The platform provides drivers and protocols for connected devices on the factory floor, wireless peripherals, and other devices within the network infrastructure. Support includes CAN, DCOM, OPC, USB, Wi-Fi, and IPv4/IPv6.
- Network Security Support: The platform includes an extensive suite of security protocols to protect network data. This suite provides implementations of IPsec and IKE, Firewall and NAT, Radius Client, 802.11i wireless security, SSL, and Digital Certificates. These protocols can be used in any combination to provide secure applications that require access control, authentication, and privacy.
- Wind River Workbench: An integrated development suite based on the Eclipse framework, Workbench provides deep capabilities that support the entire development lifecycle, 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 industrial device 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 specialized file systems, advanced CAN implementations, and COTS board and reference designs.
- Education Credits: Platform for Industrial Devices includes education credits that can be used to train engineers, ensuring that product development gets off to a quick start and stays on schedule.
Customer Success
Robotic products supplier ABB leveraged Wind River technology to accelerate development of the innovative IRB 6600. |
Echelon built their i.LON 100 Internet Server on Wind River Platform for Industrial Devices. |
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Redlake, a subsidiary of Roper Industries, combined Wind River integrated device technology and services to deliver the MotionXtra TM HG-100K. |
Wind River Industrial Services Practice
As part of its comprehensive industrial solution, Wind River offers an Industrial Services Practice, with outsourced engineering services specifically designed to help industrial customers meet strict market deadlines while keeping development costs down. Our team of technical experts is qualified to assist with a variety of architecting and engineering activities. 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 Architecture | Host Operating Systems |
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ARM Freescale IBM Intel MIPS Renesas | Linux
Solaris Windows |
Industrial Partners
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 the fast-moving industrial market. 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 industrial hardware Platform Partners include:
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.
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.
ODVA
ODVA is an organization that supports network technologies built on the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP
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OPC Foundation
The OPC Foundation is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation by creating and maintaining open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices.
TÜV Rheinland Group
TÜV Rheinland Group documents the safety and quality of new and existing products, systems, and services on the basis of particular safety standards, such as IEC61508.
