ALAMEDA, Calif., Sep. 24, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, today announced availability of Wind River's Tornado® II integrated development environment (IDE), market-leading VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS), and additional development components for Hitachi, Ltd.'s SuperH® architecture. This product release - made possible through Wind River and Hitachi's collaboration under the Center of Excellence program - targets automotive, industrial, network communications, digital consumer and other market segments that the SuperH family is well suited for.

Wind River's Hitachi Center of Excellence program combines engineering and marketing resources of the two companies to facilitate porting, optimization and distribution of Wind River's embedded software for Hitachi processors. The combined effort has resulted in a tightly integrated software offering from Wind River that takes advantage of advanced features of Hitachi's SuperH processor family.

"Wind River's software and hardware components have always shared key design wins with Hitachi in such areas as digital consumer electronics, data communications equipment, and car infotainment systems," said David Sheaffer, senior director of business development and marketing of Wind River's Platform business unit. "By working closely with Hitachi from planning to delivery, our joint Center of Excellence development team was able to deliver a wide variety of development tools, integrated and optimized for the entire SuperH family."

"In the automotive arena, innovative new features and rapid development cycles for our car infotainment and telematics products can mean the difference between being designed into a product line of millions of cars or simply standing on the sideline," said Giuseppe Cotignoli, director of engineering, Magneti Marelli Electronic Systems. "We looked to Wind River's VxWorks embedded operating system to keep us ahead of the competition, enabling us to develop systems such as the in-car telematic unit found in the Alfa Romeo 147."

The Tornado II IDE for the SuperH offers the optimized GNU compiler, VxWorks RTOS, and comprehensive support for a wide variety of SH-2, SH2-DSP, SH-3, SH3-DSP, and SH-4 based reference designs from Hitachi's worldwide semiconductor operations. This includes the Solution Engine™ platform targeted at digital consumer electronics, Hardware Architecture Reference Platform (HARP) focused on data communications, and SystemH™ platform for car infotainment. In addition, comprehensive software driver support is available for peripherals incorporated into Hitachi's "AMANDA" car infotainment co-processor chipset.

Innovative Wind River host development tools are also available for the SuperH architecture including WindView®, StethoScope™, and CodeTEST™, enabling developers to test and debug system-level issues. A wide array of runtime software components are also available including Wind River's USB Developers Kit, BlueThunder™ Bluetooth connectivity, WindML™ 2.0 graphics library, the Personal JWorks™ 3.1 Java® virtual machine, TrueFFS® for Tornado file system, Wind Web Server™, and WindNet™ simple network management protocol implementation. Class-leading hardware bring-up and on-chip debug tools supporting the Hitachi SH-3 and SH-4 processor families, including the visionPROBE on-chip debugger, are also available and allow customers to start hardware debug and driver development early in the development cycle.

"Our combined approach at product development gives our customers access to the latest and widest array of technology from Wind River running on our class-leading SuperH microprocessors and reference platforms, from the day the chip is first available," said Tadahiko Sugawara, department manager, Embedded System Solution dept., Semiconductor & Integrated Circuits at Hitachi, Ltd. "We have partnered to extend both companies´ leads in the area of connected smart devices such as digital AV receivers, car navigation systems, and SOHO broadband gateways. Now customers building these innovative new products will be productive from day one of development, enabling them to shorten their time to product launch as well as ensure a long successful product lifespan."

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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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Amsterdam, International Broadcasters Convention,Netherlands, September 14, 2001 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, announced the demonstration of its Digital Media Framework™ (DMF) API (Application Programming Interface) at the International Broadcasters Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, September 14th - 18th . The DMF development environment and methodology for consumer electronics manufacturers was introduced earlier this year. Today's introduction of a comprehensive Digital TV API supports those DMF features that are common and portable across multiple hardware platforms, making it easy to use DMF in a variety of environments.

The DMF API was built using an object or module oriented approach and has already been ported to IBM's STB03XXX Demonstration Platform and TeraLogic's Cougar DTV Development System. It is being used to demonstrate a basic digital video recorder (DVR) application. Designed for extensibility and portability, the API isolates operating system and driver level dependencies making it simple to add and support other hardware and middleware platform-specific features.

"Wind River's Digital Media Framework is well ahead of other such DTV initiatives," stated Kamran Sokhanvari, vice president of global operations and services business unit for Wind River. "With the availability of DMF on key platforms and the design methodology behind its architecture, DMF sets a new portability benchmark in the implementation of sophisticated DTV receiver solutions."

Insight into DTV specific tasks and events, which go well beyond those available with standard board support packages, is available to Wind River Services engineers through DMF's instrumentation to Wind River's Tornado® integrated development environment. The comprehensive architecture and instrumentation is estimated to provide a 10-25% time to market advantage.

DMF Benefits CEMs, Silicon Vendors, and Middleware Providers Alike
Consumer electronic manufacturers (CEMs) are confronted with the daunting task of developing multiple platforms that use different middleware and incorporate several chip sets. Coupled with the fact that these manufacturers spend an inordinate amount of time recreating basic functionality, a continual strain is placed on limited resources leaving little time to focus on market differentiation. DMF offers a migration path that provides immunity from these factors and allows CEMs to capitalize investments across multiple platforms. This ability becomes increasingly important as set-top boxes begin to include home gateway functionality.

The use of a scaleable, extensible, and standardized architecture like DMF results in shortened integration times, lower porting costs, and faster time-to-market for DTV solutions. Silicon vendors benefit by having a system layer that isolates device drivers, provides complex event management, enables functional demonstrations, and supplies interface consistency across device families. Support for proprietary and industry standard middleware such as Digital Video Broadcast's Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP), CableLabs' OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP), and ATSC's Digital TV Applications Software Environment (DASE) means eliminating much of the need for repeated integration and optimization efforts.

"Adopting Digital Media Framework is the first step in standardizing on a generic DTV API. It will unify a market that has been characterized by fragmented development and escalating design costs," continued Sokhanvari. "Our API enables the propagation of advanced interactive TV by facilitating the use of interchangeable components and offering the shortest time to market."

For more information please visit the Wind River booth at the International Broadcasters Convention, Amsterdam, located at Hall 4, Stand 347. Programs are available to incorporate DMF into consumer electronic manufacturers and silicon vendor developments.

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, Digital Media Framework, and HOW SMART THINGS THINK 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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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

ALAMEDA, Calif., September 5, 2001- Wind River Systems (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, today announced open web registration for its WindForum 2001 (www.windforum.com) developers conference and exhibition. Designed to be the nexus of the embedded community, WindForum 2001 will take place over the course of two days, on December 10 and 11th at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Participants who register before October 12th will receive a $200.00 discount.

WindForum 2001 is an opportunity for developers to preview emerging cutting-edge technologies and interact directly with companies specializing in next generation embedded real-time solutions. The technical program offers attendees real-world expertise taught by respected authorities, combining practical knowledge with classroom hands-on education. In addition, this forum will give developers a unique chance to meet and network with influential and innovative leaders and members of the development community. Registration and additional information is available online at www.windforum.com.

"WindForum provides our attendees with the highest level of education taught by the most influential pioneers of the embedded development community, The market demands a venue like this so developers can share solutions to meet demands for decreased development time and increased functionality of products. With heavy-hitting sponsors, such as Intel and Motorola, WindForum creates a unique opportunity to be a part of a community of cutting edge developers," said Steve Kennedy, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. "Our forum attendees will return home with the tools to develop and implement strategic networks, applications and services."

Conference themes include advances in Home Gateways and the growing importance of device management in the development of Internet appliances, and using Java technology in embedded devices by enhancing product quality and addressing deployment issues. Other themes include advances in reconfigurable computing technology, and implementing warm fail-over within high-availability systems.

Gold sponsors for this event include Intel and Motorola. Silver sponsors include Insignia Solutions, Hitachi Semiconductor, Rational Software, Real-Time Innovations, Xilinx and Sleepycat Software.

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. Other names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective companies or organizations.

Contact Information
Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications