Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition and Wind River Linux provide developers with a Device Software Optimization (DSO) solution that supports the two leading operating systems for device development, VxWorks and Linux. Both are tightly integrated with Wind River Workbench, the premier Eclipse-based device software development suite, and are backed by Wind River's 25 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 VxWorks and Wind River Linux 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, VxWorks Edition and Wind River Linux are 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.
Wind River Linux 3.0 now comes with all the features and hardware support of the previous platform editions in one single product and replaces the previous Linux editions of Wind River General Purpose Platform, Platform for Consumer Devices, and Wind River Platform for Networking Equipment. This provides customers with more flexibility and reduces purchasing and licensing complexity. Wind River Linux 3.0 comes with a set of preconfigured system profiles that make it easy to jump-start device-specific development and allow device manufacturers to bring devices to market easier, faster, and more cost-effectively than ever before.
Key features and functionality include the following:
- Linux run-time: Wind River Linux is an optimized Linux develop-and-run solution for use in a wide range of devices. Based on Linux kernel 2.6.27 and GCC 4.3, Wind River Linux comes with more than 500 software packages, including multimedia and graphic packages such as X.org, GTK+, GNOME, and Gstreamer. It offers a broad range of board support packages (BSPs) optimized for all leading CPU architectures as well as CELF specifications for fast boot-up time, small footprint and performance optimization, and sophisticated multicore features such as virtualization and multicore offload.
- 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 integrates Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies, providing the latest standard support for IPv4/IPv6, Wi-Fi, security protocols, and device management. It also meets current demand for performance, security, wireless, and mobility functionality. Asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support is now available for all VxWorks 6.7–based platforms through the VxWorks 6.7 Multiprocessing 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. 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 (BSPs).
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