Wind River VxWorks Platforms Product OverviewOverview
Wind River® VxWorks® General Purpose Platform serves as a solid foundation for the development of a variety of devices, from aerospace and defense (A&D) applications to networking and consumer electronics gear, robotics and industrial applications, precision medical instruments, and navigation and telematics systems in automobiles. Combining the industry's leading real-time operating system (RTOS) VxWorks and the Eclipse-based Wind River Workbench development tools, General Purpose Platform provides the most commonly needed components for embedded software development.
Features
Key features and functionality include the following:
- VxWorks RTOS
- Wind River Workbench
- Extensive partner technologies
Architecture and Host Support
Target Processor Architectures
Processor Vendors*
- Arm Limited (ARM)
- AMCC (PowerPC)
- Broadcom (MIPS)**
- Cavium Networks (MIPS)
- Freescale Semiconductor (PowerPC, ARM, ColdFire)
- IBM (PowerPC)
- Intel (IA, XScale)
- NEC Electronics (MIPS)
- Marvell (ARM, XScale)**
- MIPS Technologies (MIPS)
- PA-Semi (PowerPC)
- PMC-Sierra (MIPS)
- Raza Microelectronics (MIPS)
- Renesas Technology (SuperH)
- Texas Instruments (ARM, MIPS)
- Toshiba Semiconductor (MIPS)**
- Xilinx (PowerPC)
Host Operating Systems
- Linux
- Solaris
- Windows
*In addition, a large number of semiconductor and board vendors directly provide VxWorks support through their own board support packages.
**Processor support is version-dependent; contact your Wind River sales representative.
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 solution on open standards, expertly integrated and intelligently applied.
