Elstree, UK/Alameda, CA, USA— January 30, 2001 — ARC Cores (LSE:ARK) and Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIND) today announced that Wind River's VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS) and Tornado® integrated development environment (IDE) are available for ARC Cores' user-configurable microprocessor core.

ARC Cores has also joined Wind River's value-added reseller (VAR) program, allowing ARC Cores to bundle the run-time license for the market-share leading VxWorks RTOS with the ARC processor. This agreement provides customers with a complete one-stop hardware and software solution, reducing time-to-market obstacles for embedded-system developers of networking and consumer-electronics devices.

"The partnership between Wind River and ARC Cores addresses the growing configurable system-on-a-chip (SoC) market, which is assuming an increasing importance among system designers and end users," according to Rich Wawrzyniak, sr. market analyst for ASIC Services with Semico Research Corporation. "The ability to reconfigure system silicon at little or no cost allows companies to respond to changes in their end markets advantageously and to maximize the efficiency of their manufacturing and marketing efforts. Configurable SoC is definitely here to stay. The ability to offer a leading RTOS and development tools coupled with hooks into the processor is a very powerful combination and allows customers to reach the right level of customization to fit the application without incurring a long development cycle."

"We have been working closely with Wind River on the port of VxWorks and Tornado for the ARC processor," said Jim Turley, senior vice president of marketing at ARC Cores. "We want to ensure that our customers receive a quality RTOS and development tools from the industry's leader, Wind River, and that they continue to enjoy the freedom to configure their specific features in record time. The new age of customizable processors has arrived, and our goal is to provide our customers with the tools they need to get to market months ahead of schedule with a competitive edge."

"Together ARC Cores and Wind River can give developers using ARC's user-configurable microprocessor core a complete and integrated development solution, allowing them to compete by focusing on their value-add and reducing time to market," said Curt Schacker, vice president of corporate marketing and corporate development at Wind River. "Wind River is pleased to be working with ARC Cores to help meet the needs of the rapidly growing configurable system-on-a-chip market."

Special Integration for Advanced Development
A unique feature of this port is the addition of special "hooks" for the VxWorks RTOS and Tornado IDE that allow developers to modify and extend the ARC processor while using Wind River's tools. Developers retain the full capability to use the ARC extensible instruction architecture with VxWorks and Tornado. These special hooks are necessary because few other microprocessor cores have user-configurable architectures and the ability to add application-specific custom instructions.

With the VxWorks RTOS, ARC developers can benefit from the large base of Wind River WindLink™ partners who have expertise in creating optimized single-chip solutions. Wind River's software is tightly integrated with the standard ARC development environment from MetaWare, a subsidiary of ARC International plc. MetaWare's SeeCode debugger supports multiple targets for development and debugging. The debugger treats the RTOS as another target, using a DLL (dynamically linked library) to communicate with the Tornado target server. The ARC processor uses MetaWare's professional High C/C++ compiler and assembler to support the user-configurable and extensible features of the core.

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software-development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is how smart things think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

ARC International (UK) Ltd. and ARC Cores Inc. trade under the name of ARC Cores. ARC Cores is a trademark of ARC International (UK) Limited. Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, VxWorks, Tornado, and WindLink are trademarks or registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders.

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ALAMEDA, Calif., January 29, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices in the Internet age, today announced Tornado® for Home Gateways, an integrated software platform and development environment for home and small office gateway equipment. A home gateway can be anything from a simple DSL or cable modem to an Internet access-sharing device with home networking capabilities. Tornado for Home Gateways expands on the capabilities offered by Wind River's marketshare-leading VxWorks® real-time operating system, which powers many of today's DSL and cable modems. The solution package integrates advanced networking, management and drivers and enables the rapid creation of a next generation of broadband access equipment.

The worldwide home networking equipment and residential gateway market is expected to grow from around $600 million in 2000 to over $8.8 billion by 2003 according to recent research by Cahners In-Stat Group. The increasing availability of broadband Internet access, coupled with the trend toward multiple networked devices in the home, is driving the development of more sophisticated gateway devices. Service providers and users alike are demanding increasing functionality, including remote manageability, enhanced security, and multimedia capabilities.

"Today's DSL and cable modems are essentially first-generation home gateways. Their evolution is driven by the multiplicity of devices in the home that also need to be networked," said Dave Fraser, vice president and general manager of Wind River's Networks business unit. "These next generation devices will incorporate broadband through DSL and cable but will also act as a hub to connect every connected smart device in the home."

Fraser added that "this exploding demand for home gateway devices presents a tremendous opportunity for device manufacturers. However, there are two factors creating pressure for them as well. One is time to market and the other is the convergence of multiple technologies into a single device. Tornado for Home Gateways gives our customers a tremendous foundation that accelerates development and allows them to focus on innovation."

Tornado for Home Gateways is part of Wind River's strategy to provide customers with vertically tailored solutions. Following releases will add broadband access, advanced routing and bridging capabilities, and support for emerging wireless home networking technologies like Bluetooth and 802.11b. The platform can be enhanced with plug-in additions, including security and virtual private network (VPN) capabilities, from Wind River's WindNet™ product line and value-added software and hardware from over 500 members of the WindLink™ Partner Program. Support for wireless networking with Bluetooth technology is available through Wind River's Blue Thunder™ technology.

"Developers of DSL and home gateway devices are always looking for integrated hardware and software platforms to give them a fast start," said Keith Cheney, general manager of Motorola's Networking and Communication Systems Division. "In combination with Motorola's Smart Networks advanced communications processors, Wind River's networking platforms give our customers what they need to win in this market."

"Tornado for Home Gateways is an ideal software platform for developing solutions for our communications customers," said Phil Bourekas, vice president of IDT's Internetworking Products. "Wind River's experience in embedded networking helps us get the most from our new integrated processors."

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is how smart things think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, Tornado and VxWorks are registered trademarks and WindLink is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies or organizations.

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ALAMEDA, Calif., January 22, 2000 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for smart devices in the Internet age, today announced Real-Time Programming for Embedded Systems, an advanced training workshop that focuses on real-time and embedded design issues and programming practices. This two-day program provides real-time software systems architects, project managers, technical support engineers, and technical consultants with the expert knowledge they need to design real-time software and embedded systems.

"Because of the ever-increasing market opportunity, there is a huge need for knowledgeable embedded developers," said Kamran Sokhanvari, vice president global operations and Service,. "Wind River's workshops can help customers fully understand the strength and power of embedded software and popular Wind River products. Our instructors offer practical techniques for using development tools, provide tips on developing real-time applications, and point out common mistakes and misconceptions. Students come away from a workshop with a portfolio of skills and knowledge that would otherwise take months of unstructured, ad hoc experimentation to acquire."

The new course, Real-Time Programming for Embedded Systems is part of Wind River's ongoing program to educate customers on the design and development of embedded software. Wind River spends thousands of hours refining the most effective teaching techniques for software professionals and has trained users in a range of application areas including telecommunications, control systems, robotics, and complex embedded systems.

Real-Time Embedded Programming is geared toward developers responsible for designing, structuring and implementing software for real-time and embedded systems, and real-time operating systems such as Wind River's VxWorks® and pSOSystem® RTOSes. It introduces embedded software concepts and fundamental issues in real-time design. It highlights device driver techniques, encapsulation methods and advanced techniques necessary for successful application design. It concludes with discussions on real-time scheduling.

Pre-requisites for the course include one year of C programming experience (or other high-level programming language such as Pascal) and a basic understanding of real-time operating systems.

Workshop Schedule
February 5 6, 2001 Dallas, TX
February 8 9, 2001 Sunnyvale, CA
February 22 23, 2001 Sunnyvale, CA
February 27 28, 2001 Alameda, CA

For more information on Wind River's Training Workshop visit www.wrs.com/training.

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is how smart things think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo is a registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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ALAMEDA, Calif., January 16, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for smart devices in the Internet age, today announced a cooperative development agreement with Motorola's (NYSE:MOT) C-Port™ Corporation, a company that pioneered the development of high-end, fully programmable network processors. The two companies will extend their existing relationship by offering systems designers a rich platform for the development of next generation networking components so that network device manufacturers can bring products to market faster and give them longer time in market.

Under this agreement, Wind River and C-Port will develop a reference design switch support package to integrate the C-Port C-5™ Network Processor with Wind River's Tornado® for Managed Switches (TMS) 2.0 product line. The new platform meets the needs of Gigabit Ethernet and SONET-based Optical Switches for Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) applications and other advanced networking technologies.

The C-Port C-5 Network Processor, part of Motorola's Smart Networks Platform, offers the high-speed processing power necessary for next generation networks while TMS provides a complete set of protocols and applications for Layer 2 and Layer 3 packet processing. Together, the C-5 Network Processor and TMS offer system designers both hardware and software that is easily customized.

"We are pleased to be working with Wind River to integrate the C-5 Network Processor with TMS. Our customers get a very powerful network processor with an easy-to-use C Language programming model in the C-5 Network Processor. The integration of TMS will mean that almost all of their needs for standard protocols and management applications will be fulfilled as well," said Bob Gohn, vice-president of marketing, C-Port Corporation. "The combination of robust Layer 2 Ethernet features and the proven IP capabilities of TMS can support next generation applications like Gigabit Ethernet VLAN services in the metropolitan area network."

"TMS 2.0 can supply 100% of the standard features required in any switching or routing device. This gives our customers the head start they need to develop innovative products," said Dave Fraser, vice president and general manager of Wind River's Networks business unit. "Now customers using the C-5 Network Processor for LAN, MAN and optical networking devices will have completely integrated Layer 2 and 3 management applications and protocols."

About TMS
TMS 2.0 offers advanced quality of service (also known as QoS) features to support sophisticated applications such as Internet telephony (also known as "Voice over IP" or "VoIP") and video conferencing. TMS 2.0, the first off-the shelf solution enabling Layer 3 IP routing, addresses the needs of optical networking and broadband access concentrators as well as enterprise Ethernet switches and routers. TMS enhances the value of the C-Port network processors and associated C-Ware™ communications development environment that allow network device manufacturers to bring products to market faster and give them longer time in market.

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is how smart things think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, Tornado for managed Switches, VxWorks and pSOSystem are registered trademarks and WindLink is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies or organization.

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ALAMEDA, Calif., January 15, 2001 Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices in the Internet age, today announced a major expansion of its design services capability through the opening of a specialist design center in Grenoble, France. The new center extends Wind River's unrivalled embedded research and development capabilities even further by providing a comprehensive development outsourcing option for European-based customers.

"By opening the Grenoble design center, Wind River can really focus on the strong consumer and telecom markets in Europe," said Tom St. Dennis, president and CEO of Wind River. "Wind River's business is increasingly oriented towards providing advanced building blocks and highly experienced services teams that help customers realize new business opportunities based around these advanced technologies. The expansion in the breadth and scope of design challenges being brought to Wind River has necessitated both the growth of existing design center teams and establishment of new local development sites. The Grenoble center is part of that strategy."

"Finding a talented team of design professionals in the high-tech center of Grenoble has been a real highlight of this year," said Kamran Sokhanvari, vice president and general manager of Wind River's Services business unit. "The continuing strength and leadership of European manufacturers in key areas such as digital TV, broadband and wireless Internet, and the growing significance of Wind River's product offerings to those organizations, made it imperative that we have a local capability to assist with their design services needs. The opening of the Grenoble design center underscores our commitment to build Wind River services capabilities on a global scale."

The Grenoble design center will include 15-20 experienced engineers with expertise in the architectural design and hardware and software implementations of complex embedded systems. The close connections that exist between Wind River's European team and key strategic partners in the region have already resulted in significant project design contracts that will be executed in conjunction with US-based projects in the same markets.

Wind River created a services business unit in August 1999. That business unit gained strength through the merger between Integrated Systems, Inc., including its Doctor Design, Inc. group, and Wind River. The result was a more distributed consulting and design services organization, with established design centers in San Diego, Alameda, Dallas and Indianapolis. In addition to those capabilities, Wind River has a substantial and growing European operation, including a network of sales offices, support centers and product development teams spread throughout the region. Over 100 European engineers are involved in many aspects of Wind River product development, including the original architectural development of the Tornado® integrated development environment.

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in offering the products and services that help create connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development environments, software components, advanced connectivity and implementation skills that accelerate the realization of products throughout the world of the Internet, digital consumer electronics, industrial automation and automotive markets. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide. Wind River is how smart things think.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, and Tornado are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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ALAMEDA, Calif., January 9, 2000 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for smart devices in the Internet age, today announced general availability of a number of Wind River products supporting the new Motorola MCF5272 processor (see related Motorola announcement, The Addition of Ethernet takes Motorola's ColdFire® Microprocessor Family to the Highest Level of Integration Yet, Dec. 5, 2000). Key Wind River development tools now fully support the most highly-integrated ColdFire® processor to date, giving developers in advanced communications markets a best-of-class and end-to-end tool solution for hardware and software development.

Wind River tools supporting the Motorola MCF5272 microprocessor include the Diab™ C/C++ and FastJ™ compilers, RTA Suite™ and the industry-leading Tornado® II integrated development environment (IDE). Wind River also offers a choice of hardware-assisted debugging solutions supporting the MCF5272 processor including visionPROBE II, visionICE II, visionCLICK, visionTRACE and SingleStep™ - allowing embedded system developers to bring up new hardware, solve tough hardware-software integration and facilitate the production and test of completed products.

"Customers of Motorola's highly-integrated ColdFire MCF5272 microprocessor will be delighted with the rich tool offering from Wind River," said Wendell Smith, Motorola technical marketing manager. "The combination of highly integrated processors supported by Wind River's complete and broad development tools can provide the quickest time to market for our customers."

"Wind River has been working closely with Motorola, prior to the release of the MCF5272 processor, to provide highly-integrated debuggers, compilers, control emulators, real-time operating systems and other tools crucial to supporting the entire Motorola ColdFire microprocessor family," said John Fogelin, vice president and general manager of Wind River's Platforms business unit. "Our mutual customers are now able to develop a more competitive and feature-rich application especially in designs that have limited memory-getting them to market faster with the benefit of tighter integration with Motorola's ColdFire architecture and Wind River's comprehensive product support from hardware bring-up to deployment."

Customer Benefits
Wind River delivers off-the-shelf support for the new processor with a number of benefits to developers. From compilers that produce the fastest and smallest code to optimized product offerings like USB, Ethernet, compilers, etc., Wind River delivers a wide array of products early in the processor life cycle. Specifically, Wind River will offer developers using Motorola's MCF5272 processor:

• Diab C/C++ and FastJ Compilers and RTA Suite: The most highly optimizing compiling solution and powerful run-time analysis tools for ColdFire processor-based applications.


• visionPROBE II, visionICE II, visionCLICK and SingleStep: Hardware assisted debugging solutions offering source-level debugging designed for systems engineers, software developers, and hardware/firmware developers responsible for the initial bring-up, debug, test and tuning of embedded microprocessor applications, diagnostics and device drivers. Some highlights for the MCF5272 processor include the visionPROBE II on-chip debugging solution (which provides very high download rates) for PC hosted developers and visionTRACE which adds real-time trace and trigger capabilities to visionICE II or visionPROBE II utilizing built in trace capabilities from the MCF5272 processor.


• Tornado II: This offering provides GNU and Diab compiler support, the VxWorks® real-time operating system and a new board support package for the Motorola MCF5272C3 Development Board including USB and Ethernet drivers. Optional product support, including the Diab Compiler, will include: USB Developer's Kit, WindView®, VxFusion, TrueFFS for Tornado, Wind Web Server™ and SNMP.

Availability
Diab C/C+ and FastJ Compilers, RTA Suite, SingleStep Debuggers, visionCLICK, visionICE II, visionPROBE II, and visionTRACE are now currently available and shipping. Tornado II will be shipping in January 2001 on Windows and Solaris Hosts with GNU compiler support; in February 2001 for HP host with GNU compiler support; and in early Q2 2001 with Diab compiler integration.

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is how smart things think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, and Tornado are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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Jessica Miller
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ALAMEDA, Calif., January 3, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for smart devices in the Internet age, today presented its "Cool Customer Design" award to Singapore-based Nixvue Systems Pte Ltd. for their Nixvue Digital Album. Running on Wind River's VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS), this hand-held, battery-operated, electronic photo album is a much-needed companion product to digital cameras.

Users of digital cameras face significant problems of storage, viewing, and organization of digital images. The cameras themselves only allow for rudimentary viewing, as high-resolution digital files are large and difficult to manage. Most digital cameras store images on compact flash, smart media, or memory sticks - temporary storage media that can be expensive and limited in storage capacity (about 30-130 images). Users are required to download their images onto PCs for storage and viewing purposes, which is not ideal due to long bootups and lack of portability. Sharing photos requires physically printing them out or access to a PC. Not every user has a PC, or wants to bother with one when simply browsing through personal photos.

In contrast, Nixvue's Digital Album stores up to 10,000 high-resolution images (enough, for example, to amply document the first 10 years of a child's life). It groups the photos into different, easy-to-browse "albums," and allows the user to view or delete images, plus organize them for long-term storage without a PC. (For advanced users, Nixvue's Digital Album can communicate with PCs through a USB port, appearing just like another disk drive.) Consumers do not have to compromise quality by shooting at lower resolutions just to conserve storage space. Small and portable, the album can be thrown in a bag when going on a trip and quickly plugged into the TV to display shots for the whole family to see. An infrared remote controller makes it quick, easy, and comfortable to create an instant slide show. Nixvue's Digital Album's ease-of-use, high-volume storage capacity, and portability open up the world of digital photography to even non-computer-savvy consumers and professionals.

"Wind River is known as the first choice in embedded software and services for digital imaging manufacturers," said Albert Lim, managing director at Nixvue Systems. "With the widespread availability of high-performance, low-cost cameras, we at Nixvue Systems saw an immediate need for a device that would make digital photography easier for the average user - but we had a very short window in which to complete the project. Because Wind River's RTOS and Tornado® tools are so easy to integrate, we could develop a working prototype very quickly and refine and enhance the product at a later date."

"With our strong international presence, Wind River is proud to be able to speed products to market from customers around the world - amid decreasing product life cycles and increasing product complexity," said Curt Schacker, vice president of marketing and corporate development at Wind River. "Previously unknown companies like Nixvue are creating innovative ways to bring our technology into the hands of entire families - not just the traditional PC users of the past. International Data Corporation forecasts the size of the point-and-shoot digital camera market to be 22 million units in 2003, so a product like Nixvue's has enormous market potential."

About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is how smart things think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in sixteen countries worldwide.

Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, VxWorks, and Tornado are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. *Nixvue Digital Album trademark registration in Singapore under Class 9.

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