Intel Developer Forum, San Jose, Calif., Feb 26, 2001 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for smart devices in the Internet age, today announced that Intel Corporation developed its new wireless Internet device, the Intel® Web Tablet, using a suite of Wind River software and services. The concept of the Intel® Web Tablet shares the home PC's Internet connection, processing power and printer to let consumers access the web from anywhere in the home.

The software in the Intel® Web Tablet was designed using components of Tornado for Internet Appliances™, (TIA), a suite of Wind River's embedded software technology, and its real-time operating system, (RTOS), VxWorks®.

Wind River's embedded software is designed for the development, deployment, and in-field management of Internet appliances and smart consumer devices. The Intel® Web Tablet is a perfect example of how Wind River's software, from real-time operating systems, to design and development tools, allows its customers to make the best use of their own development resources, and customize their own design specifications.

In addition to using the components of TIA, and Wind River's VxWorks, Intel used Wind River's development services to implement, test and consult throughout all phases of the development cycle from discovery through deployment. Wind River's services group simulated the Intel Web Tablet customizing, configuring, and testing it under real-world conditions, increasing efficiencies in Intel's design and development process.

"Wind River's portfolio included the technologies we needed for a reliable and functional product concept design," said Mike Reed, director of marketing, Internet Tablet Operation, Intel. "Wind River's service organization is like a virtual research and development team, working with us every step of the way to create an innovative device that extends the value of the PC."

"Companies have been very receptive to Wind River's end-to-end solutions for innovative, smart, connected devices such as the Intel® Web Tablet," said J.C. Sarner, vice president and general manager of Wind River's Consumer business unit. "We aim to provide building blocks - from OS to wireless protocols to Internet applications - that enable our customers to create connected smart devices. The Intel® Web Tablet utilizes components of our complete solution for the embedded consumer market."

Wind River — an End to End Solution
The value of Wind River's TIA is found in its wide variety of development components for connected smart devices and Internet appliances. The Intel® Web Tablet houses several of the TIA components including, Wind River's VxWorks, Personal JWorks, and Windstorm.

VxWorks is the fundamental run-time component of the TIA platform and is the most widely adopted RTOS in the embedded industry. VxWorks is flexible, scalable, reliable, and available on all popular CPU platforms.

Personal JWorks combines the advantages of PersonalJava technology write once, run anywhere capability, Internet readiness, security, extensibility, and upgradeability. Personal JWorks software implements Sun Microsystems´ PersonalJava 3.1 reference implementation and is certified for full compatibility with the PersonalJava specification version 1.2. This assures that any PersonalJava-compatible application will run without modification on Personal JWorks.

The WindStorm component provides a first-of-its-kind client/server Java technology-based architecture for development, deployment, and content management of Internet devices. WindStorm offers a suite of standard and customizable device centric plug-ins as well as host development tools like the WindStorm Simulation Environment. The WindStorm tools enabled the developers of the Intel® Web Tablet to work within this simulation environment gaining an easier, more manageable integration of software to the device.

Wind River development services offers customer education, consulting expertise and Doctor Design™ services - premium engineering design services and project management to help your innovative products from concept to deployment.

For a live technology demonstration, please visit the Wind River booth, #422 at the Intel Developers Forum, San Jose Convention Center, February 27th through March 1st.

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.

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ALAMEDA, Calif., Feb. 20, 2001 – Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for smart devices in the Internet age, today announced immediate availability of its industry-leading Diab C/C++™ compiler suite and run-time analysis tools for the ARM microprocessor architecture, including the Intel® StrongARM® and Intel XScale™ microprocessor families. The Diab C/C++ compiler suite for the ARM architecture enables developers to create exceptionally fast, compact code to optimize their embedded applications in a wide variety of markets including Internet appliances, networking and wireless.

As a core development tool, the Diab C/C++ compiler suite allows software developers to create an executable program by taking application code written in a high-level language such as C and converting it into machine language that runs on the target application. Compiling and linking flexibility of the Diab solution allows customers to build their applications in an optimum fashion rather than working around limitations of the compiler.

Recent research findings show that ARM's share of the 32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor market grew to 77 percent in 2000. It is well suited for power-constrained, high-performance products including Internet appliances such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), Web tablets and wireless devices. Intel's StrongARM and XScale microprocessors, based on the ARM architecture core, are also popular in digital entertainment systems and networking products. Users of the ARM architecture can now benefit from the fast, compact code and flexible features inherent to Wind River's Diab C/C++ compiling solution.

"Developers of demanding, high-volume embedded designs need dense, high performance code to succeed," said John Fogelin, vice president of Wind River's Platforms business unit. "The Diab compiler is widely recognized as the highest performance C/C++ compiling technology in the industry. Developers of ARM-based products can now benefit from the Diab compiling solution by being able to pack more features and performance into their designs."

Integrated with Leading Tools
The Diab compiler suite is part of Wind River's "stand-alone" class of development tools, and thus can be used regardless of the customer's embedded real-time operating system (RTOS). Other tools in this stand-alone class and fully supported by the Diab compiler suite include the visionPROBE II on-chip debugger, visionCLICK and visionXD C/C++ software debuggers, visionWARE firmware developers kit, and single board computers with schematics and board support packages. Work is under way to integrate the Diab compiling solution for ARM into Wind River's latest generation Tornado AE platform.

RTA Suite
Also available for the ARM architecture is Wind River's Diab-compatible run-time analysis tool suite, known as the RTA Suite, which works together with both the compiler and target system to provide analysis of a program's run-time behavior and memory usage. The RTA Suite allows developers to significantly improve program quality, performance, and memory usage in embedded applications. RTA Suite tools include a run-time error checker, visual interactive profiler, stack use analyzer, link map analyzer, and code size analyzer.

Availability
Wind River's Diab C/C++ compiling solution for the ARM architecture is available immediately. Microprocessor support includes all members of the ARM family, including ARM's Thumb processor family - an extension to the ARM architecture that provides enhanced code density. The Diab compiler suite also supports the Intel StrongARM processor family and Intel XScale microarchitecture. For more information on the Diab compiling solution or any of Wind River's market-leading development tools, contact your local Wind River salesperson.

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, VxWorks , and Tornado are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective companies or organizations.

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Natick, Mass./Alameda, Calif., February 20, 2001 – The MathWorks, Inc., the leading supplier of technical computing software for engineers and scientists, and embedded systems design software, and Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIND), a leading provider of software and services for smart devices in the Internet age, today announced a definitive agreement for The MathWorks to license the distribution rights for the MATRIXx® product family from Wind River. MATRIXx is a set of software tools used in the development of real time embedded control systems. This new relationship, while maintaining customer support, will enable the two companies to more closely integrate their products to better serve key target markets.

Under the agreement, Wind River grants The MathWorks exclusive distribution rights of MATRIXx and an option to purchase MATRIXx at the end of the licensing agreement. The MathWorks will assume the support of MATRIXx and will provide a transition plan to its MATLAB® and Simulink® family of products for customers who choose to migrate. Customers will receive two years of support for MATRIXx products from The MathWorks beginning April 2, 2001. Full details are available at each company's web site.

In addition to the distribution agreement, Wind River and The MathWorks have identified several areas of partnership where the two companies will work closely to integrate MathWorks products, including Simulink and Real-Time Workshop®, and Wind River products, including the Tornado® integrated development environment, the VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS) and OSEKWorks™, an RTOS designed especially for the automotive market. These areas of partnership will allow Wind River and The MathWorks to better serve the automotive, aerospace and defense and industrial markets.

"Wind River's core expertise is in embedded operating systems, run time components and development tools. The MathWorks is the premier supplier of technical computing software. This agreement will benefit our customers by allowing each of us to focus on the things we do best," said Tom St. Dennis, president and CEO of Wind River. "Wind River and The MathWorks have worked cooperatively to create a customer-focused support and transition plan, including easier access to The MathWorks products. We will continue to work together to achieve customer satisfaction."

"The MathWorks and Wind River's resources and strategies in this marketplace are synergistic," said Jack Little, president and CEO of MathWorks. "Working as strategic partners and building on the leadership of Wind River in the embedded market, we can provide better complementary products and services to help reduce our customers´ time to market in key vertical areas we are both interested in better serving."

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, MATRIXx, Tornado, VxWorks and OSEKWorks are registered trademarks or trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. MATLAB, Simulink, and Real-Time Workshop are registered trademarks of The MathWorks, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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ALAMEDA, Calif., February 14, 2001 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices in the Internet age, today presented its "Cool Customer Design" award to Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) for its DocuPrint™ M750 and DocuPrint™ M760 color inkjet printers (to view previous winners, please visit the Cool Customer Design Archive. Designed for small office and home office (SOHO) use, the printers use Wind River's VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) and were developed with the Tornado development tools.

The Xerox DocuPrint M750 and DocuPrint M760 are Xerox's first color inkjet printers released from an alliance with Sharp Corporation and Fuji Xerox, announced last March. Additional M-Series products that use VxWorks include the WorkCentre M940 and WorkCentre M950 color inkjet multifunction products which copy, print, scan, and PC Fax. Each M-Series product uses two advanced features: eXpress Mode™ which ensures business quality output at speeds up to twice as fast as competitors´ normal mode; and InkLogic™ technology, which eliminates waste by using separate ink tanks for each color.

"We chose Wind River's solid VxWorks RTOS because of its flexibility and reliability," said John Moreland, manager of software and controller development, Xerox SOHO Business Group. "It is the most widely adopted RTOS in the industry and runs on all of the popular processors."

"Wind River is delighted to have helped Xerox bring the world of high-quality printing to small businesses and consumers at prices they can afford," said J. C. Sarner, vice president and general manager, Wind River Consumer business unit. "Wind River provides a complete portfolio of software and services designed specifically for the development of consumer electronics devices. It is part of our overall strategy to help original equipment manufacturers such as Xerox reduce development time, resulting in cost-effective products delivered to consumers within a tight market window."

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 and How Smart Things Think is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of their respective companies.

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AUSTIN Tex. and ALAMEDA, Calif. - February 12, 2001 - Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) and Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIND) today announced that Motorola has joined Wind River's "Center of Excellence" program. Motorola and Wind River have signed a multi-year agreement to facilitate the development, optimization, marketing, and distribution of Wind River's premier embedded software products across Motorola's line of PowerPC™ microprocessors. With over 80% market share+, Motorola is the leading supplier of communications processors which enable customers to develop a wide range of products for next generation networks, and Wind River is the worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices.

This strategic initiative will deliver optimized solutions when silicon first becomes available, allowing customers to leverage the latest advances in Motorola's silicon technology. By using an off-the-shelf, integrated solution, customers developing products with Motorola's line of PowerPC microprocessors and Wind River's embedded software gain greater advantage over their competitors, realizing reduced costs and shortened development cycle times. This relationship demonstrates Wind River's strategy for building close relationships with key semiconductor partners to reduce the complexity of embedded technology development and facilitate the creation, availability, and innovation of sophisticated leading edge products. It also demonstrates Motorola's strategy of continuing strong alliances with valued third parties as a crucial element in delivering Smart Networks Platform solutions.

"Motorola and Wind River have each previously introduced key strategic initiatives focused on delivering optimized solutions to their customers rather than just point products - the Motorola Smart

Networks Platform and Wind River's Center of Excellence program," said John G. Metz, Vice President of Sterling Research. "An agreement such as this between these two industry leaders which combines the strength of Motorola's PowerPC family of microprocessors with Wind River's embedded software

products will significantly strengthen their ability to support and grow their market positions by providing best in class integrated solutions for the networking industry."

Through the Center of Excellence, Wind River and Motorola will establish joint engineering and marketing relationships for Motorola PowerPC processor focused products. Wind River products, including the Tornado® Tools development environment, VxWorks® and VxWorks AE real-time operating systems, and Diab™ C/C++ compilers, RTA Suite™, SingleStep™ debuggers and Personal JWorks™ PersonalJava™ application environment will provide optimized support for Motorola's PowerPC architecture family. These software products, distributed by Wind River, are planned to cover current and future PowerPC processor families from Motorola that are ideal for network control and storage, telecommunications, high-end embedded, scientific and computing applications.

"With the creation of the Motorola and Wind River Center of Excellence we expect to provide our customers a more comprehensive hardware and software solution earlier in the processor product life cycle, enabling them to begin their application development with early silicon," said Daniel Artusi, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's Networking and Computing Systems Group. "Motorola has more than 300 customers and thousands of design wins based on our Smart Networks Platform. We are extremely pleased to work with Wind River to provide these customers comprehensive, reliable, and adaptable software solutions in order to speed their time-to-market and encourage continuous innovation."

"Wind River is pleased to take our already strong relationship with Motorola to the next-level through our Center of Excellence Initiative," said John Fogelin, vice president and general manager of Wind River's Platforms business unit. "The PowerPC architecture is extremely popular with our customers and we are pleased to help these customers by having Motorola in our Center of Excellence program. Motorola is a recognized leader in the industry, and by working together we will ensure timely availability of leading embedded software and hardware technologies, simplifying our customers' development process and reducing their costs so that they can build cutting-edge applications and devices with more functionality in less time."

The Center of Excellence for Motorola's PowerPC architecture will be jointly funded and will create a dedicated team of engineers committed to the implementation, optimization, and deployment of new products for mutual customers. The Wind River / Motorola Joint Steering Committee plans to ensure a long-term solution-based road map and tighter integration between Motorola PowerPC processors and Wind River's software development tools and integrated software solutions. Specific product enhancements include compiler, debugger, and kernel optimizations, support for future PowerPC cores, and new Motorola evaluation Board Support Packages (BSPs) for Tornado® II and Tornado AE during the term of this agreement.

Availability
The first scheduled products from Motorola and Wind River's Center of Excellence are expected to include Tornado support for Motorola's MPC7410 and MPC7450 processors with the delivery anticipated to begin in the first half of 2001. This support adds to Wind River's extensive PowerPC architecture product portfolio from Motorola with support currently available for Motorola's MPC5xx, MPC6xx, MPC7xx, MPC8xx, MPC74xx, and MPC82xx PowerPC microprocessor families. This includes support for the MPC7400 processor with AltiVec technology with Diab C/C++ Compilers, RTA Suite, visionCLICK, visionICE II, visionPROBE II and visionTRACE products. Additional Wind River product offerings supporting the PowerPC architecture include Tornado for OSEKWorks™, Wind River's implementation of the OSEK/VDX specification designed for the automotive market, with support for the MPC555 processor and Tornado for Managed Switches, a complete embedded software solution for building manageable data networking switch and router equipment, with support for the MPC6xx, MPC7xx, MPC74xx, MPC8xx, and MPC82xx processor families. Wind River is also a Motorola certified PowerPC silicon training representative for PowerPC MPC7xx, MPC860, MPC74xx and MPC8260 processors and was recently selected by Motorola to offer specialist microcode and protocol optimization capabilities for the MPC8260 PowerQUICC II and related communications processor architectures through it's extensive design services organization.

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, Tornado, VxWorks, Diab, RTA Suite SingleStep, OSEKWorks, Personal JWorks, PersonalJava and HOW SMART THINGS THINK are registered trademarks or trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered trademarks of Motorola, Inc. DigitalDNA , the DigitalDNA logo, and PowerQUICC are trademarks of Motorola, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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EAST FISHKILL, N.Y. and ALAMEDA, Calif., February 12, 2001 — IBM and Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND) today announced an agreement to provide network equipment vendors a comprehensive network processor hardware and software solution for advanced routing and switching applications.

The two companies intend to optimize Wind River's Tornado® for Managed Switches (TMS) 2.0 software to run on IBM's PowerNP NP4GS3 network processor, offering customers a feature-rich, scalable platform for building next-generation, high-speed networking equipment. This technology collaboration is expected to enable flexible integration of customer-specific features into network equipment, portability across a wide range of hardware architectures, comprehensive packet processing functions for Layer 2 and Layer 3 communications applications and the ability to quickly adapt to new and evolving software standards.

"Software-programmable network processors offer a great opportunity for equipment manufacturers facing intense pressure to innovate while minimizing their product design cycle time," said James Northington, vice president of Network Technology for IBM. "We believe customers will find the combination of IBM's PowerNP network processor and Wind River's TMS 2.0 software a cohesive platform for rapid development of high-performance, customized communications gear."

IBM's NP4GS3 and Wind River's TMS have been designed to meet the performance requirements of switches, routers and other high-speed communication equipment used in data centers, Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) and service provider core networks. The combination of these products is expected to help communication equipment manufacturers speed the development of their next-generation equipment by integrating hardware and software development platforms.

"The companies that are winning today in the communications market are the ones who buy the best and build the rest," said David Fraser, vice president and general manager Wind River Networks business unit. "Starting with a fully integrated platform means developers are focused on designing the differentiating features and product innovations that are required to be successful in today's competitive market. They are able to meet or beat aggressive time to market schedules which means longer time in market for their products."

To speed the optimization of IBM's NP4GS3 and TMS, Wind River's design services organization is developing a new Switch Support Package (SSP) to link the hardware and software platforms. Wind River's design services organization has developed the expertise required to undertake complete programs of hardware and software development based on the IBM PowerNP network processor and Wind River software technologies. Customers can work with Wind River design services to assist in the implementation of large development projects based on the technologies of the two companies.

The combined TMS-NP4GS3 solution will be made available to customers as part of IBM's PowerNP NP4GS3 reference platform, a prototype subsystem that offers equipment makers an opportunity to conduct "real world" hardware and software evaluation before building their products. IBM's network processor reference platform can be used to configure an operational version of a network switch or router, helping customers implement and test how a system, powered by the NP4GS3 will perform complex data packet management.

About TMS
Wind River's TMS is the industry's only complete embedded software solution for advanced data networking equipment. It combines Wind River's industry-leading VxWorks® real-time operating system and powerful Tornado development tools with integrated switching and routing protocols and management applications. TMS 2.0 offers advanced quality of service (QoS) features to support applications such as Internet telephony ("Voice over IP" or "VoIP") and video conferencing. Wind River's latest release, TMS 2.0, is the first off-the-shelf solution for Layer 3 IP routing. It addresses the needs of optical networking and broadband access concentrators as well as enterprise Ethernet switches and routers.

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.

IBM, IBM Microelectronics, IBM Blue Logic and CoreConnect are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo and Tornado are registered trademarks or 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., Feb. 5, 2001 - 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 its VxWorks® AE (advanced edition) real-time operating system (RTOS) and Tornado® Tools 3 integrated development environment (IDE), together known as the Tornado AE platform. Tornado AE is Wind River's most advanced platform offering to date, implementing an innovative new computing paradigm for developing embedded applications that require the highest levels of reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS). Wind River began shipping Tornado AE in late January 2001 following a rigorous beta program with over 125 partners and customers participating (see customer/partner quote addendum below).

Prior to Tornado AE, developers of highly-reliable applications had to develop their own in-house proprietary RTOSs or choose from one of several commercial offerings geared toward high reliability, with significant drawbacks to each of these alternatives. In-house proprietary solutions often come with a high cost of ownership and lengthy development time while other previous commercial solutions that focus on RAS functionality are overly rigid and bring unneeded complexity and performance overhead with them.

The VxWorks AE RTOS - derived from Wind River's market-share leading VxWorks RTOS - delivers a new approach to meet the needs of highly-reliable embedded devices. Employing a new memory management system, the VxWorks AE RTOS shifts the software execution paradigm from a single, flat physical address space into the realm of multiple, distinct virtual address spaces. System designers are able to leverage the memory management units of today's modern microprocessors to create protective boundaries, known as protection domains, which form the backbone of VxWorks AE technology. Protection domains provide application and kernel isolation without unnecessary complexity, increased overhead or rigid programming conventions.

"As embedded products continue to evolve from fixed-function, statically configured devices towards connected, multi-function devices, our customers require a protected environment to develop highly-reliable applications," said John Fogelin, vice president of Wind River's Platforms business unit. "VxWorks AE has been designed to be a true 'fault resilient RTOS,' meaning that the operating system will prevent certain faults from occurring altogether, while limiting the impact of other faults on the rest of the system. Positive feedback received from our beta customers affirmed that this capability, made possible through protection domain technology, is critical to creating a true RAS platform."

Tornado AE is designed for manufacturers building service-critical Internet infrastructure equipment and Internet appliances, mission-critical defense and aerospace systems, life-critical medical products and process-critical industrial measurement and control systems. The platform is a 'no compromises' solution, in that it delivers a reliable platform suitable for mission-critical applications without compromising key real-time embedded principles that have made VxWorks the most widely-used commercial RTOS in history. Key benefits of Tornado AE include:

• Reliability - Provides application isolation to ensure that entities intended to operate independently cannot corrupt each other. Supervisor mode protection ensures that applications cannot directly access kernel code and data. Overrun and underrun protection ensures that stack resource problems are trapped before corrupting the rest of the system.


• Performance - Minimizes overhead required for protection using an innovative method for system calls that is the fastest on the market. Function call interfaces are the most common and efficient programming methodology and privileged protection domains offer application isolation.


• Flexibility - Minimizes memory footprint (without impacting performance) in embedded designs by allowing users to include only those features required by their project. Scalability of protection is offered from a kernel-only design to a fully partitioned system.


• Serviceability - Offers the ability to add after-market, in-service upgrades and applications from independent third-party software vendors after the device has been deployed. Hot swapping of software components is available as a result of a powerful new loader, which allows unmatched links to remain in a pending state.

The Tornado Tools 3 IDE is the latest version of the award-winning Tornado IDE and is specifically designed to allow embedded developers to take advantage of the new protection domain model. The Tornado Tools 3 IDE includes a new C / C++ multi-tasking debugger optimized for object-oriented design, a new system object browser for increased visibility into target CPU behavior and an enhanced RTOS configuration tool for optimizing the configuration of both the VxWorks AE operating system and application code. In addition, Tornado AE is bundled with enhanced POSIX (portable operating system interface for UNIX) support and Wind River's message-passing runtime product.

Availability
The first commercial version of Tornado AE shipped in January 2001 and is available today. The platform currently supports the PowerPC™, Intel® Architecture - 32 (Pentium®, Celeron™, Pentium II, and Pentium III), MIPS®, and ARM® processor families. Host operating system support includes Sun Solaris®, Windows® NT, Windows 2000, and RedHat Linux. Wind River optional products including advanced networking protocols and embedded visualization development tools will be made available for Tornado AE throughout the year.

Customer/Partner Quote Addendum
"Just as in other areas of the embedded computer world, the software applications developed by defense/aerospace equipment suppliers continue to get more complex, more interconnected, and more critical to the success of the mission," said Anthony Siregar, vice president, marketing, for DY 4 Systems, Inc. "VxWorks AE's protected memory mode will allow DY 4 and Wind River's mutual customers to reduce the cost of developing robust, highly-reliable software, furthering the competitive advantage of basing defense/aerospace systems on off-the-shelf solutions such as those that Wind River and DY 4 provide."

"IBM's PowerPC microprocessors are being incorporated across a broad range of applications, including high-performance supercomputers and Internet servers; as a core in customized system-on-a-chip products for networking gear; embedded into communications products like switches and routers; and consumer and pervasive computing products like set-top boxes and game systems," said Steve Longoria, director, Networking Technology Marketing and Strategy for IBM. "IBM is collaborating with Wind River to extend the use of PowerPC chips and VxWorks AE technology by providing designers a comprehensive, flexible software solution that facilitates efficient development, modification and reuse of PowerPC-based applications."

"Intel is committed to providing developers in the applied computing market segment a wide array of options to aid them in meeting their customers' needs," said Joe Jensen, general manager of the Intel Embedded Architecture Division. "Wind River's support for the Intel Pentium and Celeron processors will help developers using the new VxWorks AE RTOS and Tornado Tools 3 IDE to take advantage of the flexibility and performance of the Intel Architecture to create competitive products."

"VxWorks is an important operating system to our licensees," said Brian Knowles, vice president of marketing at MIPS Technologies. "Memory protection, a feature of Wind River's VxWorks AE 1.0 release, leads to greater system reliability, which results in reduced system failure of end products once they're deployed in the field."

"Wind River's addition of virtual addressing capabilities will allow Motorola's customers to even more fully utilize the unique memory management capabilities offered by our high-performance PowerPC™ processors," said Robert France, director of software for Motorola's Networking and Computing Systems Group. "Our alliance with Wind River to offer the VxWorks AE, with its memory partitioning features, further expands the wealth of Smart Networks solutions that enable customers to speed time-to-market and focus on developing value-added applications."

"The VxWorks AE platform and Tornado Tools 3, when coupled with Motorola Computer Group's award-winning, carrier-grade and high-availability systems like the CPX8000, will help telecom equipment and solution suppliers get to market fast while achieving the high-availability requirements needed by today's increasingly complex applications," said Tom McKearney, vice president and director of marketing, telecommunications business, Motorola Computer Group. "Our long-term relationship with Wind River is key to providing developers with a solution for telecom and other market segments that place a premium on reliability. VxWorks AE provides a strong migration path for the large base of legacy telecom applications using VxWorks on Motorola's platforms."

"My team likes to work as independently as possible," said Charlie Jenkins, vice president of sales and marketing of Solidum Systems. "Protection domains allow our engineering team members to develop their own pieces of our final solution that are shielded from other members of the team. This is particularly important for the development engineers working on the kernel. Protection domains and the fault management system make the effort-intensive task of managing all elements of the final product.

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, VxWorks, and Tornado are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective companies or organizations.

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