Wind River Virtualization Solutions

There are many opportunities for increasing performance in your design when adopting multi-core CPUs. There are also many challenges facing developers engaged in porting applications to multi-core CPUs. The high-core-count multi-core processors that silicon vendors are providing require optimized approaches to deliver the best performance. Multi-core CPUs offer increased computational performance per watt vs. single-core processors. Many offer integrated hardware acceleration and networking devices.

Your challenge is to leverage and embrace multi-core CPUs with minimal risk and effort, in the shortest and simplest way. Embedded virtualization can help you realize the performance benefits of multi-core CPUs by simplifying the migration process.

What's Our Embedded Virtualization Solution?

Embedded virtualization and multi-core CPUs allow device manufacturers to migrate legacy single-core applications to multi-core CPUs without needing to perform extensive application tuning or validation.

Use embedded virtualization to achieve scalable performance growth to meet scaling performance demands

With Wind River® embedded virtualization, you'll host your application within a virtual board, or guest operating system, with a complete operating system, or run your application directly on the hardware without the overhead of an operating system.

The following are examples of how embedded virtualization can boost performance:

• Network packet acceleration: New services rely on the network to deliver multiple facets of performance. The network must have the ability to process massive amounts of multimedia packets at lightning speed. It must also have the flexibility to easily scale to meet the growing bandwidth demands of future connected devices. Packet acceleration is one example of how equipment providers can achieve higher performance and throughput to deliver a better overall quality of experience with embedded virtualization.
• Image, radar, audio, and data processing: Certain classes of embedded devices perform very high throughput or compute intensive processing where performance per watt of power consumed is an important design constraint. Examples include radar processing, medical imaging, and complex control systems. Multi-core processors have created new opportunities for embedded developers to create products that leapfrog their current product lines in performance, power usage, and bill of materials costs.
• High-end handheld devices: The performance expectation from consumers for handheld smartphones and tablets rivals that of desktop computers. The performance-to-power ratio for multi-core processors is an attractive option for device developers. Multi-core and power management technology has vastly improved the battery life of handheld devices while performance capability has improved dramatically.

When evaluating and selecting an embedded virtualization solution it is important to use a vendor that provides a complete product portfolio of real-time operating systems tightly integrated with a real-time hypervisor and complete development toolchain on a multitude of hardware architectures. Be sure to explore Wind River Embedded Development Kits to evaluate our complete suite of real-time and embedded products preinstalled on dedicated hardware. Reduce the ramp-up time from weeks to minutes. "Skip step one" and start realizing the performance potential of multi-core CPUs for your application right away.

Why We Uniquely Qualify to Be Your Embedded Virtualization Supplier

Wind River offers the industry's most comprehensive embedded virtualization development portfolio. Our solutions support multiple architectures, including Intel®, Power, ARM, and MIPS, and are backed by outstanding professional services and customer support, hardware integration expertise, and a thriving partner ecosystem.

We're uniquely qualified to help you master the challenges of building smart, connected devices with embedded virtualization.