Features

Key features and functionality include the following:

• VxWorks RTOS: The Wind River Platform for Medical Devices is based on the world’s most widely adopted VxWorks RTOS. Built on a highly scalable, deterministic, hard real-time kernel, VxWorks enables companies to scale and optimize their run-time environment using only the specific technologies required by their device. View detailHide detail
  From the smallest footprint requirement to the highest performance level, VxWorks gives developers the flexibility to build their optimal medical solution quickly and easily while meeting cost, quality, and functionality requirements. The latest edition is also backward-compatible with earlier versions of VxWorks, allowing customers to leverage existing and legacy software assets.
• Vendor Qualification Summary: Wind River Platform for Medical Devices provides a comprehensive Vendor Qualification Summary that fits right in with your risk-based supplier qualification. View detailHide detail
  This is in accordance with FDA quality system regulation 21CFR820.50 Purchasing Controls that require manufacturers to evaluate suppliers for their ability to meet requirements including quality requirements. This summary includes descriptions of the controls and processes Wind River uses to design and develop its platform components. Having this qualification summary pre-prepared for your project is a clear way to reduce time, risk and costs.
• Enabling safety and security: In order to help build safe and secure medical devices, VxWorks not only helps identify potential failure conditions but also aids in mitigating the risks. View detailHide detail
  Capabilities such as deadlock avoidance, efficient handling of task errors, and Real-Time Processes (RTPs) for separating kernel and applications from each other are some of the in-built capabilities. The security protocols like IPsec, IKE can be used in combinations to help provide secure applications that require access control, authentication, or privacy. IPv6 logo and VPNC consortia testing is constantly performed to mitigate interoperability issues.
• Networking and middleware support: The platform integrates Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies, an extensive portfolio of protocols and technologies based on industry standards. View detailHide detail
  This optimized, mature and proprietary set of technologies provide implementations of various security components such as IPsec and IKE, firewall and NAT, cryptography, RADIUS client, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and digital certificates. The platform also provide the much needed support for core network stack elements such as IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, QoS along with SNMP, CLI, web services for effective network management.
• Advanced device connectivity: The platform provides drivers and protocols for connected devices for wired and wireless peripherals, and other devices within the network infrastructure. View detailHide detail
  Support includes USB, WLAN, and is augmented by additional technologies from partners.
• Multicore Support: The Wind River Platform for Medical Devices features multicore support capabilities within the operating system, network stack, and development tools in order to provide the easiest path to multicore technology for embedded software developers. View detailHide detail
  The multicore-enabling capability of the VxWorks platforms is complemented by Wind River’s unmatched service and support capabilities.
• Graphics: Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite is integrated with Wind River Platform for Medical Devices, enabling the development and deployment of rich user interfaces for multifunctional embedded medical devices, to create better end-user experiences.
• Optimized Development Tools: The platform includes the industry-leading Wind River Workbench development suite and provides an option to use Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging and Wind River Test Management. View detailHide detail
  Wind River Workbench is an integrated development suite based on an Eclipse framework that provides deep capabilities that support the entire development life cycle, from hardware bring-up to product test and manufacture, and enables standardization on one common development suite across the enterprise. Wind River’s technology leadership in debugging multicore processors with its Workbench On-Chip Debugging solutions enables customers to quickly identify problems between the hardware and software using a patent-pending multicore debugging technology. Wind River Test Management, a test automation system helps monitor and optimize the testing of embedded device software.
• Extensive partner technologies: To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has established the embedded software industry's widest-ranging partner ecosystem, joining forces with leading hardware and software providers to address such technologies as Bluetooth, speech recognition and text-to-speech, Java, and advanced graphics capabilities.

Customer Success

Success Story  Website		BD Biosciences BD Biosciences, a leading global provider of flow cytometry systems, needed a real-time operating system to enable faster time-to-market while mitigating risk. Learn why this biotechnology leader turned to Wind River General Purpose Platform, VxWorks Edition and how this solution is helping BD Biosciences fight HIV/AIDS in developing countries.
Press Release  Success Story  Website		Fedegari AutoClavi S.p.A. Fedegari, the leading provider of high-end sterilizing machines for global pharmaceutical manufacturers, needed to develop a standardized control system with a highly stable architecture. Learn why the company turned to Wind River Platform for Industrial Devices, VxWorks Edition to deliver a FDA 21 CFR part 11 compliant system on time and on budget.
Ad Campaign  Website		Varian Medical Systems Varian Medical Systems, a Wind River customer for over 20 years, relies on Wind River VxWorks RTOS and Wind River Workbench for their revolutionary TrueBeam™ radiotherapy and radiosurgery system.

Wind River Professional Services

Wind River Industrial Services Practice

For any technical or business challenge, the Wind River Professional Services team offers a valuable blend of skills, contacts, knowledge, intellectual property, flexible resources, design processes, and project management methodology that will complement your strengths.

Wind River customers often request our help with co-sourcing critical development functions. We can assist your team with product specification, board bring-up, middleware integration, project management, or full product realization. We are qualified to enhance and extend your resources, helping you reach market quickly, on budget, and on spec, with a product that meets or exceeds the expectations of your clients.

Architecture and Host Support

Medical Device Development Partners

Wind River's world-class partner ecosystem ensures our customers receive the value they require in an overall solution stack through the strong partnerships we've fostered with other industry leaders. The Wind River partner program requires partnering companies to tightly integrate their hardware or software solutions with Wind River's core technologies. Our partners 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 a number of markets.

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 solutions 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.

Continua Health Alliance
Wind River is an active member of the Continua Health Alliance, a nonprofit, open industry organization of health-care and technology companies joining together in collaboration to improve the quality of personal health care. With more than 240 member companies around the world, Continua is dedicated to establishing a system of interoperable personal connected health solutions with the knowledge that extending those solutions into the home fosters independence, empowers individuals, and provides the opportunity for truly personalized health and wellness management.

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 technologies.