Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices
Customer Success
Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices provides developers with a device software optimization (DSO) solution that supports the two leading operating systems for device development, VxWorks and Linux, each with a separate edition of the platform. Both versions of Platform for Consumer Devices are tightly integrated with Wind River Workbench, the premier, Eclipse-based device software development suite, and are backed by Wind River's 20+ years of device software experience, a broad network of hardware and software partners, a world-class support organization, and a specialized professional services team.
Both versions of Platform for Consumer Devices offer companies a fast-boot, small-footprint run-time environment ideal for memory-constrained devices. The platform has been optimized for consumer devices and includes industry-specific, integrated run-time technologies, enabling companies to decrease time-to-market while focusing engineering resources on differentiating, value-add features. Platform for Consumer Devices is targeted for digital video, mobile handheld, digital imaging, and broadband access devices. The platform offers multiple processor support and operating system flexibility, allowing developers to standardize on a single, comprehensive development suite and migrate easily from project to project.
Key features and functionality include:
- Linux Run-Time: Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition, is based on a Linux 2.6.10 kernel implementation. It includes integrated patches and packages for enhanced networking and security requirements, as well as CELF specifications for fast boot-up time, small footprint, and performance features and functionality. The platform offers a "pristine source" distribution that gives maximum visibility into which packages and patches have been applied. The platform's distribution also provides a unique, intuitive, build system for building and installing the Linux kernel as needed. Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition, comes fully tested and validated on industry-specific hardware.
- VxWorks Run-Time: Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition, relies on the proven, stringent, and deterministic real-time operating system successfully deployed in millions of network equipment devices worldwide. The platform's integrated run-time technologies provide process support, advanced memory protection, and configurable error management, as well as increased POSIX compliance and TIPC. Platform for Consumer Devices includes the latest standard support for IPv4/IPv6, Wi-Fi, security protocols, and device management. It also meets current demand for performance, security, and wireless functionality.
- 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 developers to meet specific project needs. It can seamlessly integrate hundreds of third-party plug-ins.
- Predictable, Reliable Product Delivery: Both versions of the platform are released twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. Releases include new capabilities, hardware support, and bug-fixes, providing a timely introduction of new features and updates.
- 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, graphics, Java, multimedia protocols, reference designs, and board support packages.
- Education Credits: Platform for Consumer Devices includes credits that can be used to fund education courses for project personnel, ensuring that product development gets off to a quick start and stays on schedule.
Customer Success
Motorola chose Wind River products for an enhanced, interactive set-top box design. |
Wind River products enabled Humax to develop an entire line of OpenCable products on schedule. |
Wind River Consumer Services Practice
As part of its complete consumer industry solution, Wind River offers a Consumer Services Practice, with outsourced engineering services specifically designed to help consumer electronics customers meet strict market deadlines while keeping development costs down. 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 |
| ARM
Freescale IBM MIPS Renesas XScale IXP | Linux
Solaris Windows |
Consumer 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 consumer 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.
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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.
Open Source Developers Lab
Open Source Developers Lab (OSDL) - home to Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux - is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Founded in 2000 and supported by a global consortium of IT industry leaders, OSDL is a nonprofit organization that provides state-of the-art computing and test facilities in the United States and Japan for developers around the world. OSDL's founding members include IBM, HP, CA, Intel, and NEC.
